Facilitating Masterful Meetings: Virtual Edition

• Identify the role of virtual meetings, the different meeting types, and how to avoid unnecessary meetings

• Describe typical problems with virtual meetings

• Define the qualities of a masterful virtual meeting

• Provide a starting set of meeting rights to empower participants

• Describe detailed techniques for achieving masterful virtual meetings

• Give practice in using the techniques to run masterful virtual meetings

• Provide a roadmap for transforming virtual meetings throughout your organization

• Provide techniques to use when you are not the virtual meeting leader

Meeting leaders seeking to begin holding virtual meetings or drastically improve the quality and output of their current virtual meetings, including:

• Supervisors / Managers / Product & Project Managers/ Total Quality Facilitators / Trainers / Strategic Planners / Business Analysts / Reengineering Teams This course is also ideal for companies that have meetings with offsite people such as:

• Remote Employees / Contractors / Vendors

• Start and end virtual meetings on time

• Minimize technical issues

• Overcome time differences and language barriers

• Create and communicate the agenda

• Keep remote participants engaged

• 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 participants

• Bring the virtual group to consensus

• Close the session with clarity and commitment