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Masterful eMeetings: Virtual Meeting Training

This course is designed to help leaders like you drastically improve the efficiency and productivity of your virtual meetings. You’ll learn from our dynamic instructors who model the practical techniques taught in a highly engaging and interactive format. Starting with an understanding of the common problems faced by virtual meeting leaders, this course presents the solution - a vision of Masterful eMeetings and provides step-by-step instructions you can use right away for seamlessly managing your virtual meetings.

Masterful eMeetings Course Description (pdf)

2010 Public Class Dates 1 1/2 days - $450

Web-based Course Dates coming soon

2011 Public Class Dates

Web-based Course Mar 7-8 Aug 30-31

Schedule a Private / In-House Class

Private Masterful eMeeting web-based classes are fully customizable, and provide the best value for groups of 17 or more. Contact us for more information about scheduling a private class. *If you have fewer than 17 people, but still desire a personalized, private learning experience, consider collaborating with other departments in your organization or other organizations near you.

Why Our Meeting Facilitation Training Course Works

This course is designed to help leaders like you create a meetings revolution inside your organization. Starting with an understanding of the common problems with meetings, this course presents a vision of Masterful eMeetings and provides specific techniques you can use right away for improving your meetings. Energetic instructors use our PDI process (practical, dynamic and interactive) to keep you engaged and the class highly interactive.

Learn How To

Dramatically improve the quality of your virtual meetings by:

• Start and end on time
• Minimize technical issues
• Overcome time differences and language barrriers
• Create and communicate the agenda
• Keep remote participants engaged, focused and involved
• Minimize distractions and multi-tasking
• Manage dysfunctional behavior
• Handle disagreement
• Collect feedback from remote participants
• "Read" body language/non verbal cues virtually
• Facilitate virtual group interaction
• Create a “Team” feel among remote group members
• Bring the virtua group to a consensus decision
• Close the session with clarity and commitment

Ideal For

Any professional who leads virtual meetings in which all or a portion of the employees, team members, clients, vendors, contractors and other meeting participants are offsite, especially those who use WebEx, Adobe Connect, Microsoft LiveMeeting, GoToMeeting, or any other web conferencing tool.

Objectives

• Identify the role of  virtual meetings, different types, and how to avoid unnecessary meetings
• Describe typical problems with  virtual meetings
• Define the qualities of a Masterful eMeetings
• Provide a starting set of  virtual meeting rightsto empower participants
• Describe detailed techniques for achieving Masterful eMeetings
• Practice using the Masterful eMeetings techniques
• Provide a roadmap for improving virtual meeting throughout your organization

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