Virtual meetings

In this course you learn how to become a better participant AND how to lead better virtual meetings that will contribute to retaining and boosting your people engagement and company culture. Take this video course if you are:

• A leader (company CEO / owner / entrepreneur / board member etc.) who holds regular meetings for their direct reports;
• A mid-level manager and / or a team leader at any level in your organization who holds regular meetings and cares about the mood, efficiency and productivity of your team;
• A project manager organizing regular or irregular virtual meetings for complex groups of stakeholders;
• A leadership assistant in charge of organizing virtual meetings, creating the agenda, bringing the participants together, taking virtual meeting notes etc.;
• An external virtual meeting facilitator hired to support in-house groups and teams;
• A future team leader – a talented professional expecting to be promoted into a leadership position and thus facilitating more virtual meetings in the future;
• A regular virtual meeting participant in any role in your team or organization who would like to boost your visibility and strengthen your personal brand through a mindful meeting participation.

In this video course you will learn:

• When virtual meetings are recommended: when you should organize a virtual meeting and when you should use a different format of remote communication;
• Why we need specific goals for our virtual meetings – and what such goals can be;
• How to approach virtual meetings and how to behave so you can fully participate, communicate effectively and maximize the value of your time;
• What you can do prior to a virtual meeting as a facilitator and as a participant to secure a successful meeting;
• For facilitators - how to manage people’s emotions, how to contain people who try to hijack your virtual meeting by speaking too much or by adding new themes to the original agenda and how to bring forward the unseen – the people who withdraw in a corner and who, usually, have valuable insights for your group;
• What you should do after a meeting to make sure that all deriving tasks will be accomplished;
• Last but not least, what you can do to preserve your psychohygiene, so you can be truly effective even when you spend numerous hours per day in virtual meetings.