Introducing
Virtual Meeting Academy
From Dull to Dynamite!
An interactive digital course that gives leaders a blueprint for facilitating engaging, efficient meetings, and decreases employee virtual meeting fatigue.
In this course, you will learn techniques to take your virtual meetings from dull to dynamite increasing engagement and efficiency and decreasing the virtual meeting fatigue.
Before I tell you about this unique program, let’s talk about who it is for…
You are a leader, who was thrust into a remote working environment, literally, overnight.
While your meetings have gotten better since then, your team is not:
- As engaged as you would like them to be,
- You recognize your virtual meetings could be more efficient, and
- Your team is feeling the virtual meeting fatigue, as are you…
Whether you are...
- A leader who wants strategies for facilitating more engaging virtual meetings.
- A leader who wants to run more efficient virtual meetings.
- A project manager who wants to motivate and lead effective and productive project team meetings.
- A leader who recognizes their team (and maybe themselves) are struggling with virtual meeting fatigue.
- A leader who wants to maximize the virtual meeting platform to create engagement in their meetings.
You’re in the right place!
Let’s review how Virtual Meeting Academy will give you the tools, strategies, and unparalleled support on your journey to take your virtual meetings from dull to dynamite.
By the end of this course,
you will have
Structure
- Identified the core questions for determining if a meeting is even necessary.
- Identified a clear purpose and communicate that purpose with your attendees.
- Identified the virtual meeting platform tool that is right for your virtual meeting.
- Analyzed your meeting attendees and structure your meeting in alignment with their needs and styles.
Organization
- Created a meeting template of proven components that you will use for every meeting.
- Identified roles and responsibilities for efficient and effective virtual meetings.
- Incorporated powerful engagement techniques during the meeting to create energy, connection, and trust in the virtual meeting.
- Maximized the meeting platform tools to increase engagement and interaction in your virtual meeting.
Administration
- Incorporated post-meeting best practices to ensure things discussed and decided in the meeting actually get done.
- Utilized third-party tools to streamline the pre, during, and post-meeting process.
- Collaborated with other leaders to share challenges, success and ideas.
Dani Watkins
has been leading and training engaged and effective large virtual teams since 2004. She is an expert in both leading virtual meetings as well as maximizing the technology for virtual meetings.
Here is what some of her past students have to say about her courses:
Dynamic. Interactive. Phenomenal.
Enroll in Virtual Meeting Academy Today!
Independent Study
4 weeks of self-paced content released weekly.
A student workbook for notetaking that includes best practices, strategies, idea generating, and quick reference sheets for meeting platform technology.
Lifetime access to the course.
Bonus 1: 2 LIVE Q & As with Dani
We know that with any course, you have very individual questions and challenges that you might want to brainstorm some solutions to. Join Dani for two LIVE Q & A sessions where you can submit your questions and she will give you some very step-by-step, tactical, solutions to.
Virtual Meeting Academy Elite
All items in the Independent Study package PLUS:
A review and audit of YOUR 1 hour meeting followed by personalized recommendations and 1:1 coaching from Dani.
BONUS: A PowerPoint of ready to use meeting slides which can be used before, during or after the meeting for team engagement.
4 Modules
Module 1 - The Pre-Meeting Fundamentals
In this module, you will dive into these questions and additionally review if your meeting platform is meeting the needs of your meeting, evaluate your attendees and ensure your meeting is aligned with their needs and styles, and identify roles and responsibilities for efficient and effective virtual meetings.
Module 2 - Facilitate a Dynamite Meeting
In this module, you will learn proven techniques for engaging your attendees as they arrive, throughout the meeting and to close the meeting. Using the advanced features of your virtual meeting platform, you will learn ways to increase collaboration, connectedness, and trust across the team. Finally, you will explore third-party tools that can enhance engagement and efficiency throughout the meeting.
Module 3 - Don’t Forget the Follow-Up
- In this module, you will learn strategies for making post-meeting follow-up a breeze. You will review practice incorporating post-meeting best practices to ensure things discussed and decided in the meeting actually get done. And, finally, you will learn how to leverage third-party tools to make this part of the virtual meeting less time-consuming and instead, get higher results.
Module 4 - Deep Dive into Virtual Meeting Technology
In this module, you will take a deeper dive into your virtual meeting technologies and determine when they are a good choice for your virtual meeting and what functionality you maybe didn’t know it had to create more engaging, efficient virtual meetings.
When you enroll during this limited-time period, you will get:
Bonus 1: 2 LIVE Q & As with Dani
We know that with any course, you have very individual questions and challenges that you might want to brainstorm some solutions to. Join Dani for two LIVE Q & A sessions where you can submit your questions and she will give you some very step-by-step, tactical, solutions to.
Independent Study
Virtual Meeting Academy Elite
Because we like a little EXTRA…here are some additional BONUSES that we think will help you go even beyond Dynamite Virtual Meetings.
(A $997 value)
Bonus 1: Members’ Only Online Community Group
Bonus 2
Microsoft Teams
Google Meet
OneNote
Google Docs
Google Drive
OneDrive for Business
What if you start the course, and realize it isn’t right for you? You’ll be backed by a 10-day money back guarantee.
If you don’t feel completely confident and motivated by the content in this course, simply send an email to admin@aboutzps.com, show us the work you have put into the course (student exercises, progress in self-paced content, and attendance in LIVE or recorded sessions), and we will refund your investment.
Independent Study
4 weeks of self-paced content released weekly.
A student workbook for notetaking that includes best practices, strategies, idea generating, and quick reference sheets for meeting platform technology.
Lifetime access to the course.
Bonus 1: 2 LIVE Q & As with Dani
We know that with any course, you have very individual questions and challenges that you might want to brainstorm some solutions to. Join Dani for two LIVE Q & A sessions where you can submit your questions and she will give you some very step-by-step, tactical, solutions to.
Virtual Meeting Academy Elite
All items in the Independent Study package PLUS:
A review and audit of YOUR 1 hour meeting followed by personalized recommendations and 1:1 coaching from Dani.
BONUS: A PowerPoint of ready to use meeting slides which can be used before, during or after the meeting for team engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time will it take me to complete the course?
- Each week, on Monday, the content for the week’s module will be released.
- Each module has between 4-8 lessons, each lesson takes anywhere from 10-20 minutes per lesson. Some lessons might be implementation lessons where you need to try something you learned in one of your meetings.
- Each week there will be a one-hour LIVE training. We recommend you attend live when you can, but if the time doesn’t mesh with your schedule, you can always watch the recording.
- Week 2 and Week 4 there will be two, one-hour LIVE Q & As. These are optional, but we highly recommend you attend.
The beauty of this course is that everything is online, and you have lifetime access. So, take it at a pace that works for you. You will need to put in some extra time to complete the exercises but, you have my word, the value you will get out of it is well worth the effort you put into it.
I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed in my job right now, are you sure this course is for someone like me?
Do I need to be a leader at my organization or have direct reports?
Will you (Dani) be available and accessible to answer questions if I get stuck?
Will I need to invest money in anything else for this course?
Independent Study
4 weeks of self-paced content released weekly.
A student workbook for notetaking that includes best practices, strategies, idea generating, and quick reference sheets for meeting platform technology.
Lifetime access to the course.
Bonus 1: 2 LIVE Q & As with Dani
We know that with any course, you have very individual questions and challenges that you might want to brainstorm some solutions to. Join Dani for two LIVE Q & A sessions where you can submit your questions and she will give you some very step-by-step, tactical, solutions to.
Virtual Meeting Academy Elite
All items in the Independent Study package PLUS:
A review and audit of YOUR 1 hour meeting followed by personalized recommendations and 1:1 coaching from Dani.
BONUS: A PowerPoint of ready to use meeting slides which can be used before, during or after the meeting for team engagement.
Still "thinking about it?"
But trust me when I say, you should give Virtual Meeting Academy a 7-day risk-free shot if you are motived by any of the following:
- You need a team who is actively engaged in meetings.
- You need meetings that are more efficient and effective.
- You need a team that is rejuvenated and fresh and not drowning in virtual meeting fatigue.
- You need team members are more collaborative, connected, and trusting.
- You need meeting follow-up to ensure things discussed and decided in the meeting actually get done
- You need to learn to maximize the functionality of the tools you are using every day.
I personally cannot wait to guide you through the next four weeks.
Creating engaging and efficient virtual meetings is an art.
I’ve experienced first-hand what it’s like to attend a meeting that lacks engagement and efficiency, where no one speaks up, no one provides input, and nothing gets accomplished. It is so frustrating and energy draining. More than anything, I want you to feel confident the next time you have to facilitate a meeting, where you try something new with your team to engage them, and they positively respond.
I am interacting with leaders just like you who are crazy busy, but at the same time, recognize that they only way they can fix this feeling of exhaustion working remotely is to step back and reinvigorate their virtual meetings.
If you are a leader facilitating virtual meetings, you owe it to yourself and your team to take a risk-free plunge into something that can not only transform your meetings but transform your team as well.
Ignite Your Learning!
Dani Watkins