The Virtual Workplace
In today’s remote work culture, having the skills and ability to effectively collaborate in a virtual environment is essential
We’re the experts in virtual facilitation and training. Explore below:
Video Training for your Team
Virtual Training for your Team
No travel? No problem! Virtual training with live instructors
Virtual Meetings Series
Virtual Skills in Running Meetings
Develop the skills you need to run effective virtual meetings.
Virtual Facilitators for your Session
Let the experts manage your virtual meeting, so you can focus on the outcome.
Video Training for your Team
Leadership Strategies Video Series
Learn facilitation skills at your own pace. Our easy-to-use online learning format ensures you can complete basic trainings in a short time and apply what you learn immediately to your work! Each series is available to purchase individually for 90 days, 180 days, or full year access. You can also purchase a license for each series so your entire organization can have access. Contact us for more information on company licensing.
DISC Secrets for Successful Communication
| Communication style clashes happen every day, with each person battling to get what they want out of the interaction. These clashes are one of the leading causes of dissatisfaction in current workplace culture. This video will provide you with the knowledge and tools to significantly increase your effectiveness as a leader, manager, supervisor, or individual contributor by learning to recognize the different communication styles and apply strategies to effectively adapt to each and resolve style clashes. |
Learn How to
- Increase your one-on-one communication effectiveness with peers, subordinates, clients, partners, and even friends and family members.
- Use a simple approach to define and identify the four different communication styles: Drive, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance.
- Adapt a variety of strategies to more effectively communicate with styles different from your own.
- Recognize when style clashes are impacting the interaction.
- Recover real-time when a style clash is evident.
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21 Secrets of Facilitation
Here is your opportunity to learn 21 of the key techniques and strategies from our widely acclaimed course, The Effective Facilitator! The videos show you proven techniques for preparing for success, starting with impact, keeping the group focused, building consensus, managing dysfunction, and much more!
Learn How to
- Use the 6 Ps to prepare for effective group sessions
- Start session with impact by employing the IEEI secret
- Use checkpoints and PeDeQs to “herd the cats” and keep groups focused
- Ask questions that yield a bonfire of responses, every time
- Apply the four-step model for effectively addressing dysfunction
- Use strategies for resolving each of the three reasons people disagree
- Project level-3 energy as needed to engage groups and energize sessions
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Zoom Advanced Engagement Strategies
While Zoom includes several features for engagement, such as polls, chats, whiteboards, and breakout groups, few people actually use them, and even fewer know how to couple them with advanced level engagement strategies. The videos give you the chance to experience the power of engaging virtual meetings and show you how you can put our strategies into use for yourself. You also get a resource library filled with instruction sets and pre-formatted templates that you can use for your own sessions.
Learn How To
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- Incorporate over a dozen advanced engagement strategies such as Dump and Clump, Whip Around, Rotating Flip Charts, and Chatter Fall.
- Implement these strategies in a variety of sessions, such as strategy, action planning, status meetings, and more!
Virtual Training for your Team
The Effective Facilitator: Virtual Edition
Our flagship course, The Effective Facilitator covers the 10 principles of facilitation, more than 100 techniques, and includes 6 exercises culminating a videotaped practice session.
Topics include how to:
- Motivate a group
- Build consensus
- Manage dysfunction
- Maintain group focus
- Generate ownership
- Inspire people to action
This 3 day class is offered completely virtually and teaches techniques for both in person and virtual sessions.
Virtual Meetings Series: The Basics, Group Dynamics and Advanced Skills
Virtual collaboration and meetings have taken center stage. Many organizations are operating fully remotely for the first time in history, making virtual meeting skills a critical need. In order to help as many organizations adapt as quickly as possible, we have created a new 3 course series.
Whether you take just the basics (Virtual Meetings 101), or need the full program, these three half-day modules provide you tools you can use right away for running highly effective virtual meetings.
The Facilitative Consultant: Virtual Edition
Are you an internal or external consultant, or do you use a consultative style in your work? The Facilitative Consultant is a dynamic, interactive course that builds critical skills by using a highly-interactive case study approach. This course outlines a comprehensive framework for all stages of the consulting process from defining client needs to running a project to reviewing results. The Facilitative Consultant focuses on relationship management, allowing you to increase your credibility and trust with clients, enhance your communication effectiveness and better manage expectations. This team-based course offers you the opportunity to solve a real-life client problem by applying your new skills.
The Engaging Trainer: Virtual Edition
Facilitating Impactful Learning (formerly Facilitation Skills for Trainers)- 3 days | Designed for trainers and instructors, this three-day course equips you with a full toolbox of strategies for engaging participants in dynamic and interactive training segments. Trainers and instructors will be able to design and employ an approach that engages ANY audience and makes training really stick. Special Feature: Bring a module from your own class to get feedback and recommendations for transforming it using the techniques from The Engaging Trainer! (can be done in shorter customized versions)
Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagement Using Microsoft Teams
While Microsoft Teams includes several features for engagement, such a polls, chats, whiteboards and breakout groups, few people actually use them, and even fewer know how to couple Teams with advanced-level engagement strategies. This course will teach you how to maximize the use of these features PLUS you will walk away with over a dozen other techniques used by the engagement experts at Leadership Strategies.
In this course, you won’t just learn what to do, or just see how to do it, you will actually do it. You will walk out of this class confident that you can make your next Teams session buzz with engagement and excitement. Why? Because you will have done it in the class and experience it yourself. Our interactive approach provides participants with opportunities to experience the power of engaging sessions and to replicate it themselves.
Zoom Plus (+)
While Zoom includes several features for engagement, such a polls, chats, whiteboards and breakout groups, few people actually use them, and even fewer know how to couple Zoom with advanced-level engagement strategies. In this 2-part course you will learn to maximize the use of these features (Mastering Zoom Essentials) PLUS you will walk away with over a dozen other techniques used by the engagement experts at Leadership Strategies (Advanced Strategies for Virtual Engagement Using Zoom).
In Zoom+, you won’t just learn what to do, or just see how to do it, you will actually do it. You will walk out of this class confident that you can make your next Zoom session buzz with engagement and excitement. Why? Because you will have done it in the class and experience it yourself. Our interactive approach provides participants with opportunities to experience the power of engaging sessions and to replicate it themselves.
From Classroom to Virtual
The world of training is shifting. Where people gather to learn will be different but HOW humans learn is still the same. The brain still needs accessible content delivered in a safe engaging environment. This webinar highlights proven strategies for bringing the BEST of the classroom experience to the virtual environment and how to leverage the unique advantages for learners and trainers available in this advancing space.
This is not a new idea for us.
The world has been “dabbling” in the virtual space for a decade. Early attempts produced some great experiences and many more “not-so-great” ones that have given “virtual” a bad name. Now it is time to get serious, stop dabbling, and commit to mastering the tools, techniques and strategies that facilitate meaningful development and performance improvement in our modern training landscape. We can get you there.
Questions we can answer:
- How do you keep people from doing email and “stuff”?
- What if the participants need to ask questions?
- How will I know they are getting it?
- What should I look for when choosing a virtual training platform?
Do you have to be a tech genius to “drive that thing”?
The Facilitative Leader: Virtual Edition
The Facilitative Leader is for individuals who want to improve their leadership skills and move to the next level in their organization. Create an action plan that uses facilitation principles to engage and inspire others to drive results. The course can be done consecutively in 3-4 days, in ½ day modules listed below, and can even be delivered virtually in 2-hour segments over time. You can select all or just a few, depending on your needs:
- The 3 Levels of Leadership
- Facilitating Communication
- Facilitating and Coaching others
- Facilitation Success in Your Team
- Facilitating Consensus
- Strategic planning and thinking
- Leading Masterful Meetings 1
- Leading Masterful Meetings 2
The Effective Facilitator: Virtual Link
This online, instructor-led course takes participants through each of the 10 principles covered in The Effective Facilitator with instruction on how to apply the skills virtually. The tools and techniques are adapted to the virtual environment, making remote meetings just as successful and productive as face-to-face.
Virtual Meetings Series
We have launched a new 3 course series, presented in half day formats to help your team skill up faster than ever. Learn more about our Virtual Meetings series.
Virtual Skills in Running Meetings
Great virtual meetings are engaging and productive.
Whenever people participate in an online meeting, the odds are pretty good that they are going to try to multitask. Those odds increase when they feel bored or disengaged. Virtual meetings rely heavily on the leader’s ability to create an environment that keeps the participants focused and on track.
Despite geographic dispersion, the virtual meeting leader must find a way to get the participants excited, keep everyone engaged, gather and document the critical information, build consensus, manage dysfunction, keep the energy high, and close with a clear understanding of the steps to take once the meeting ends.
Our highly interactive course, Facilitating Masterful Meetings: Virtual Edition, will help you dramatically improve the quality of your online meetings. Attendees will learn:
- How to eliminate unnecessary meetings
- The most important component of a meeting
- How to determine the right participants
- Strategies for developing a results-driven agenda
- Techniques for starting meetings on time with everyone present
- How to effectively deal with dysfunctional behavior
- Methods for increasing productivity and the efficient use of time
- How to keep meetings on track and focused
- Techniques for bringing groups to consensus
- How to close the session with clarity and commitment
If you’re looking to level up your skills in virtual meeting facilitation, look no further.
Virtual Facilitators for your Session
Achieve the results you need – even in a virtual environment.
At Leadership Strategies, we understand not everyone has the skills to run an effective virtual session. And with virtual meetings on the rise, not everyone has the time to learn. Partnering with one of our skilled virtual facilitators is the most efficient way to ensure you can focus on the outcome of your meeting or session, instead of worrying about how it’s conducted.
We have the virtual expertise to:
- Facilitate large or small group meetings
- Conduct a strategic planning session
- Resolve an issue or bring a group to consensus
- Moderate focus group input
- Hold a successful business partnering session
We use a focused process accompanied by proven engagement strategies to optimize group dynamics and help you maximize your results. If you have an important meeting or session coming up that has to be virtual, we’re the solution.
A recent study shows more than 71% of remote workers have challenges collaborating.
According to a recent study by Igloo software about the state of the digital workplace, 7 of 10 employees who work remotely are dealing with challenges that their in office counterparts are not. What’s more, almost 60% of remote workers report being excluded from meetings or brainstorms. What about your team?
Are you or your team experiencing one or more of the following:
“The virtual facilitation training course was everything I hoped it would be, and the timing couldn’t have been better. If this is the new normal for online meetings, then this is the course you need! I was able to use many of the techniques right away with my own meetings, and received compliments about how my meetings were ‘different and better’ than typical virtual meetings. “
Mike B., Director of Product Management, Fortune 100 Insurance Company
Do you need to level up your virtual sessions quickly?
If this resonates with you, you can’t affort to wait any longer. Let’s have a conversation today!
