Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagement
Learn how to incorporate advanced engagement techniques into your virtual meetings.
Discover how to use the features of online meeting platforms to create and facilitate more than a dozen engagement techniques used by the experts at Leadership Strategies.
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
While online meeting platforms have several features such as polls, chats, whiteboards, and breakout groups, few people know how to couple them with advanced-level engagement strategies. In this ½ day course, you won’t just learn what to do, or just see how to do it, you will actually do it. You will come away from this class confident that you can make your next virtual meeting buzz with excitement. Why? Because you will have practiced using your platform’s advanced features yourself to maximize participant engagement.
Discover How To:
- Incorporate the features of online platforms with advanced engagement strategies such as Dump and Clump, Rotating Flip Charts, and One Minute Collaboration
- Implement these strategies in a variety of sessions, such as strategy, action planning, status meetings, etc.
Note: This course is taught using the Zoom platform, however we will teach you how to incorporate the engagement techniques using other platforms such as Microsoft Teams and WebEx.
I need training for:
Half Day: $695
We offer fully customized, private classes taught at your location for groups of 10 or more. Contact us for more information.
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