Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagement
Learn how to incorporate advanced engagement techniques into your virtual meetings.
Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagement is a hands-on, highly interactive workshop for professionals who want to elevate the energy and impact of their virtual meetings. In just a half day, you’ll learn how to combine platform features with proven engagement techniques that boost interaction, collaboration, and excitement—no matter the meeting type.
Virtual Edition
This online, instructor-led version consists of a half-day virtual workshop. Designed for facilitators, team leads, and professionals who want to elevate their virtual meetings, this course goes beyond the basics to explore advanced engagement strategies. You’ll not only learn what to do, you’ll actually do it. Through hands-on practice, you’ll master the use of platform features like polls, chats, whiteboards, and breakout rooms, combined with dynamic techniques that keep your meetings buzzing with energy.
You will learn:
- How to combine platform tools with proven engagement strategies
- Techniques like Dump and Clump, Rotating Flip Charts, and One Minute Collaboration
- Ways to apply these strategies in planning, status, and strategy meetings
- How to adapt techniques for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx
- And more!
With real-time practice and expert coaching, this course gives you the skills and confidence to make your next virtual meeting interactive, engaging, and unforgettable.
Who will benefit from this course?
Ideal For:
- Managers
- Executives
- Facilitators
- Consultants
- Trainers
- Analysts
- Teams
Needing To:
- Run better virtual meetings
- Become familiar with online meeting platform features
- Learn advanced engagement strategies
- Increase interaction and participation
What you will learn
Transform virtual meeting skills by:
- Incorporate platform features with advanced engagement strategies
- Use Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx tools effectively
- Practice strategies like Dump and Clump, Rotating Flip Charts, and One Minute Collaboration
- Apply techniques in meetings such as planning, strategy, and status updates
- Boost interaction across different meeting types and sizes
- Make your next virtual meeting dynamic and memorable
- Adapt strategies to fit your platform and meeting purpose
- Build confidence through real-time, hands-on practice
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify underutilized features within Zoom, Teams, and WebEx that enhance engagement
- Apply advanced strategies like Dump and Clump, Rotating Flip Charts, and One Minute Collaboration
- Combine platform tools (e.g., polls, whiteboards, breakout rooms) with engagement techniques
- Tailor engagement approaches for different types of meetings such as strategy sessions, status updates, and planning discussions
- Confidently lead virtual meetings that increase participant interaction and collaboration
- Practice and refine engagement techniques in a live environment for immediate application
Training for
Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagement is available at various times throughout the year as a half-day, virtual live instructor-led workshop. This option is ideal for individuals seeking professional development in a small group setting.
See upcoming class dates below:
Private classes are fully customizable, taught at your location, and provide the best value for groups of 10 or more. Contact us for more information about scheduling a private class.
*If you have fewer than 10 people, but still desire a personalized, private learning experience, consider collaborating with other departments in your organization or other organizations near you.
Upcoming Courses:
Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagements using Zoom
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Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagements using Zoom
1/2 Day (1 PM – 5 PM ET)From $695.00
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