What Our Clients Are Saying:

• I wanted to express my thanks to you and your wonderful staff not only for the excellent training our group experienced, but for the attention to detail to ensure everything went smoothly. Our leadership staff agreed that the recent Webinars That Wow series training they completed was a great investment of our time and dollars. I have observed them at several meetings and presentations since completing your training and it is obvious that they are putting their newly learned webinar knowledge into practice. Thank you and we look forward to working with you again in the near future.

  -- Senior Project Manager, UnitedHealthCare Operations

• We had Sheri teach this course to help my team build their presentation skills for the virtual world. Now my team is using this technology in a really impactful way and the investment has been paid back after the first webinar!
  -- Urbain Bruyere, BP International Limited

• We held our Webinar and it was a great success! The feedback was really positive and we even had a plant manager in China dial in who immediately said he wanted the module for his plant. Thanks so much for coaching the team on such short notice – it made a big difference!
  -- Louise Wheal, JMJ Associates

Why You Need Online Training:

Travel budget cut? Want to save time? Need to save money? Web meetings are the answer! If you think you can take your face-to-face meetings or teleconference calls and use the same format in a web-based meeting, you need to know that it will not work.

Whether you conduct project updates, sales meetings with clients, month-end reporting, budget updates, software demonstrations or something entirely different, we will customize virtual training for the unique meetings you conduct. By the end of this four session virtual series, you will master the ability to lead an efficient and productive meeting, while maintaining the interest of your attendees.

Series Format/Size:

Four (4) 75-minute sessions scheduled at your convenience. Session includes exercises, assignments, a workshop and personalized coaching. Minimum of 10, up to 25 attendees.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn and practice the 15 elements to conduct a productive web-based meeting
• Understand when and how to use virtual tools throughout your meeting
• Learn seven techniques to engage attendees and keep them from multi-tasking
• Learn to transform your teleconference call into a dynamic web-based meeting
• Understand how often you should engage your attendees
• Develop and deliver a compelling web meeting introduction
• Learn how to transform your own vocal energy
• Identify strategies and tools to captivate your audience
• Implement and practice protocols for open discussion
• Understand how to manage the challenging and unresponsive attendees
• Implement best practices for demonstrating software
• Learn techniques for proper time management
• Practice sharing documents

Series Agenda:

SESSION 1:

• Overview of 15 elements to transform your virtual meetings
  
• Review how often to engage virtual attendees
  
• Practice techniques to transform your vocal energy
  
• Review best practices for showing attendees a website and demonstrating software
  
• Review and practice tools for interaction including whiteboard, chat and annotation tools
  
• Includes volunteers and coaching

SESSION 2:

• Review logistics of how to manage audio options and to make the most of your webcam
  
• Practice sharing documents, making changes on the fly and using hyperlinks
  
• Understand how to prepare for meetings to meet timeframes
  
• Customized instruction for content development based on your unique meetings
  
• How to manage group discussion and mixed audiences (live and virtual groups)
  
• Includes pre-work, volunteers and coaching

SESSION 3:

• Learn how to handle disruptive or derailing attendees to keep the meeting on track
  
• Review best practices for number of attendees, meeting length and meeting set up
  
• Practice proper use of tools including share, chat and whiteboard
  
• Manage discussions and chat based on your unique meeting scenarios
  
• Includes volunteers and coaching

SESSION 4:

• Volunteers deliver an interactive, engaging web meeting, followed by personalized coaching.
  

Who Should Attend:

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