In this highly interactive hands-on virtual session, participants will explore five different techniques for adding more interaction to their live virtual sessions.

With professionals spending more than 40% of their time in meetings, as well as a shift to more virtual training, live virtual sessions of all kinds are growing in number. What helps your virtual session stand out as impactful, memorable, and useful? In this highly interactive hands-on virtual session, participants will explore five different techniques for adding more interaction to their live virtual sessions. Join Effective Virtual Conversations Author Jennifer Britton as she explores practical things you can incorporate into your next zoom, skype, or conference call.
As a result of this session, participants will: • Identify what helps a virtual session avoid the "Death by Conference Call" • Explore core skills for virtual facilitators to lean into • Delve into five tools for making their virtual live training (virtual team building, meetings, webinars) more engaging (breakouts, polls, annotation, openers, and closers) • Leave with an action plan of how to inject more engagement opportunities into their live virtual sessions

As a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) with years of experience working with associations, I am currently the Executive Director of the Institute for Performance and Learning or I4PL. Our purpose is to elevate the performance of the Canadian workforce.
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