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Lead Great Virtual Meetings: The Steps You Need to Succeed

Are You Ready To Lead Great Virtual Meetings?

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic plunged the world into relying on virtual communication as the primary means of connection. As business and personal communication shifted from face-to-face to being almost entirely virtual, millions faced the daunting task of learning how to use Zoom, Skype, and other online virtual meeting services. While there were plenty of tips, techniques, and best practices explaining how to use various delivery platforms, there was no clear-cut leadership model addressing how to effectively lead these meetings.

Bernice L. Ross, Ph.D. and Byron Van Arsdale have been leading virtual meetings since the 1990s. In 1998, they created The Six Principle Model for leading conference calls and teleclasses (training/education by phone). Today, their Six Principle Model provides you with the framework you need to lead effective virtual meetings, regardless of the delivery platform you use.

Lead Great Virtual Meetings unlocks the secrets of how you can:

• Easily engage participants
• Create powerful content
• Handle technology issues
• Have fun
• Implement the specific tips and strategies you need to attain stellar results

Most importantly, The Six Principle Model allows you to capitalize upon your unique
personal strengths to become the outstanding leader you were meant to be.

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Lead Great Virtual Meetings: The Steps You Need to Succeed
Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Virtual Meeting Revolution 13

  • What is a Virtual Meeting?
  • Over 100 Years of Virtual Meetings
  • My Journey with the Virtual Meeting Model
  • The Birth of The Six Principle Model
  • What Makes an Effective Virtual Meeting Leader?
  • Chapter 1 Key Points

Chapter 2: The Six Principle Model 19

  • The Six Principles
  • Principle #1: People Listen for Their Reasons, Not Yours
  • Principle #2: People Support What They Help to Create
  • Principle #3: Connection, Connection, Connection
  • Principle #4: Surface the Wisdom of the Group
  • Case Study
  • Principle #5: Flex Your Flexibility Muscle
  • Principle #6: What You Do is What You Get
  • Additional Fundamentals You Need to Know
  • Applying The Six Principle Model
  • Chapter 2 Key Points

Chapter 3: Challenges Leading in an All Auditory Environment 37

  • We’re Wired to Be Visual
  • Generational Differences
  • Monday Morning Blues: The Anatomy of a
  • Poorly Led Conference Call
  • Chapter 3 Key Points

Chapter 4: Technology Basics 45

  • Pre-Meeting Technology Checklist
  • Hiss, Pop, Buzz, Snore: Minimizing Annoying
  • Distractions During Auditory Meetings
  • Chapter 4 Key Points

Chapter 5: Best Practices that Work Across Multiple Delivery Platforms 53

  • Twelve Guidelines to Follow on Every Virtual Meeting
  • Chapter 5 Key Points

Chapter 6: Issues to Address Before Your Video-Based Virtual Meeting 63

  • Different Platforms, Different Strategies
  • Six Primary Methods for Delivering Content
  • What Tools and Systems Will You Need?
  • Tech Decisions You Must Address
  • Logistics
  • Content Decisions
  • Fifteen Best Practices to Follow as You Plan Your Meeting
  • Case Study: Using Polling to Ramp Up Interactivity
  • Chapter 6 Key Points

Chapter 7: How to Create a High Impact Presentation 79

  • Four Major Types of Virtual Meetings
  • What’s the Purpose of Your Meeting?
  • Are You a Deductive or Inductive Content Creator?
  • Slide Construction 101: How to Engage Your Viewers
  • Twenty Ways to Make Your Slide Deck More Engaging
  • Chapter 7 Key Points

Chapter 8: Improve Your Delivery 103

  • Interactive Video or Webinar?
  • Start Strong and End Strong
  • How Fast Do You Speak?
  • Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic—How Is Your Brain Wired?
  • Use Your Voice to Manage the Room
  • Avoid the Following Words that Weaken Your Delivery
  • Control Your Body Language
  • Record Yourself
  • Chapter 8 Key Points

Chapter 9: Meeting Day: Fifteen Common Mistakes to Avoid 115

  • Common Mistake #1: Failure to Systematize How You Handle Logistics
  • Common Mistake #2: Failure to Review Your Slide Deck the Evening Before and the Day of Your Meeting
  • Common Mistake #3: Failure to Send Out “Guidelines for Participants”
  • Common Mistake #4: Arriving Less Than 30 Minutes Before the Start Time
  • Common Mistake #5: “Waiting for Organizer”
  • Common Mistake #6: Not Attending to the Housekeeping First
  • Common Mistake #7: Not Providing Your Supporting Materials Prior to the Meeting
  • Common Mistake #8: Long Intros
  • Common Mistake #9: Not Telling Them What You’re Going to Tell Them
  • Common Mistake #10: The “Content Download”
  • Common Mistake #11: Believing You Cannot Create Interactivity During Asynchronous Meetings and Classes
  • Common Mistake #12: It’s All About Me!
  • Common Mistake #13: Reading the Slides to Your Participants
  • Common Mistake #14: Packing Too Much Content on a Single Slide
  • Common Mistake #15: Not Ending on Time
  • Chapter 9 Key Points

Chapter 10: Zoom Your Way to Success 129

  • From the Boardroom to the Bedroom
  • Why Video-Based Virtual Meetings Make Leaders So Uncomfortable
  • The Basics
  • Real or Virtual Background?
  • How to Create a “Zoom Room”
  • Thirty Seconds of Challenges
  • Analyzing What Went Wrong
  • How to Avoid “Zoom Fatigue”
  • Four Real Estate Case Studies: How to Put Zoom to Work in Your Organization
  • Case Study #1 Texas Realtors: How We Delivered Live CE Training to 500 Locations Simultaneously Using Zoom
  • Case Study #2 The Wall Street Journal (WSJ): Zoom Town halls and Conventions
  • Case Study #3 EXIT Realty: Leverage Your Zoom Meetings to Provide Better Service and Build Relationships
  • Case Study #4 Fidelity National Title Agency: Connect and Have Fun
  • Make Your Backgrounds Ultra-Personal
  • Chapter 10 Key Points

Chapter 11: Leading in the Dark 155

  • The Monologue Challenge: Building Engagement During Asynchronous Meetings
  • Vary Your Visuals to Keep Participants Engaged
  • Learning Management Systems (LMS)
  • Case Study
  • Avatar-Based-Platforms
  • Chapter 11 Key Points

Chapter 12: Which Principles and Tools Will You Use as You Lead? 189

  • Two Simple Steps to Take Before Your Next VirtualMeeting
  • Stay Focused on Your Participants: Use “You,” Not “I” or “Me”
  • Case Study: Twelve Real World Applications of The Six Principle Model
  • Audio-Only Meetings
  • Video Conferencing
  • Where to Concentrate Your Focus
  • How Will You Know When You Have Mastered The Six Principles?
  • Chapter 12 Key Points

Acknowledgements 207

Appendix A: Guidelines for Participants 211

Appendix B: Guidelines for Creating a Talking Circle 213

  • Talking Circle Guidelines for Your Participants
  • Outcomes You Can Achieve Using the Talking Circle
  • Using the Talking Circle as a Counseling Tool

Lead Great Virtual Meetings Online Course

Lead Great Virtual Meetings: The Steps You Need to Succeed

Are You Ready to Lead Great Virtual Meetings?

Lead Great Virtual Meetings online training unlocks the secrets of leading successful virtual meetings. Our Six Prinicple Model addresses the most important aspect in leading effective meetings–who you need to be as the leader of the meeting, not just the tips and techniques for using the various meeting platforms. Furthermore, due to bandwidth and technology issues, many participants join using “auditory-only.” This means you’re leading what is essential an old-fashioned conference call. If you’re ready to lead effectively on conference calls, auditory only meetings, webinars, Zoom, and Learning Management Systems, our training shows you how.

Online Training / Digital Chalk

Lead Great Virtual Meetings

Lead Great Virtual Meetings: The Steps You Need to Succeed

Are You Ready To Lead Great Virtual Meetings?

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic plunged the world into relying on virtual communication as the primary means of connection. As business and personal communication shifted from face-to-face to being almost entirely virtual, millions faced the daunting task of learning how to use Zoom, Skype, and other online virtual meeting services. While there were plenty of tips, techniques, and best practices explaining how to use various delivery platforms, there was no clear-cut leadership model addressing how to effectively lead these meetings.

Bernice L. Ross, Ph.D. and Byron Van Arsdale have been leading virtual meetings since the 1990s. In 1998, they created The Six Principle Model for leading conference calls and teleclasses (training/education by phone). Today, their Six Principle Model provides you with the framework you need to lead effective virtual meetings, regardless of the delivery platform you use.

Lead Great Virtual Meetings unlocks the secrets of how you can:

• Easily engage participants
• Create powerful content
• Handle technology issues
• Have fun
• Implement the specific tips and strategies you need to attain stellar results

Most importantly, The Six Principle Model allows you to capitalize upon your unique
personal strengths to become the outstanding leader you were meant to be.

View Table of Contents

Lead Great Virtual Meetings: The Steps You Need to Succeed
Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Virtual Meeting Revolution 13

  • What is a Virtual Meeting?
  • Over 100 Years of Virtual Meetings
  • My Journey with the Virtual Meeting Model
  • The Birth of The Six Principle Model
  • What Makes an Effective Virtual Meeting Leader?
  • Chapter 1 Key Points

Chapter 2: The Six Principle Model 19

  • The Six Principles
  • Principle #1: People Listen for Their Reasons, Not Yours
  • Principle #2: People Support What They Help to Create
  • Principle #3: Connection, Connection, Connection
  • Principle #4: Surface the Wisdom of the Group
  • Case Study
  • Principle #5: Flex Your Flexibility Muscle
  • Principle #6: What You Do is What You Get
  • Additional Fundamentals You Need to Know
  • Applying The Six Principle Model
  • Chapter 2 Key Points

Chapter 3: Challenges Leading in an All Auditory Environment 37

  • We’re Wired to Be Visual
  • Generational Differences
  • Monday Morning Blues: The Anatomy of a
  • Poorly Led Conference Call
  • Chapter 3 Key Points

Chapter 4: Technology Basics 45

  • Pre-Meeting Technology Checklist
  • Hiss, Pop, Buzz, Snore: Minimizing Annoying
  • Distractions During Auditory Meetings
  • Chapter 4 Key Points

Chapter 5: Best Practices that Work Across Multiple Delivery Platforms 53

  • Twelve Guidelines to Follow on Every Virtual Meeting
  • Chapter 5 Key Points

Chapter 6: Issues to Address Before Your Video-Based Virtual Meeting 63

  • Different Platforms, Different Strategies
  • Six Primary Methods for Delivering Content
  • What Tools and Systems Will You Need?
  • Tech Decisions You Must Address
  • Logistics
  • Content Decisions
  • Fifteen Best Practices to Follow as You Plan Your Meeting
  • Case Study: Using Polling to Ramp Up Interactivity
  • Chapter 6 Key Points

Chapter 7: How to Create a High Impact Presentation 79

  • Four Major Types of Virtual Meetings
  • What’s the Purpose of Your Meeting?
  • Are You a Deductive or Inductive Content Creator?
  • Slide Construction 101: How to Engage Your Viewers
  • Twenty Ways to Make Your Slide Deck More Engaging
  • Chapter 7 Key Points

Chapter 8: Improve Your Delivery 103

  • Interactive Video or Webinar?
  • Start Strong and End Strong
  • How Fast Do You Speak?
  • Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic—How Is Your Brain Wired?
  • Use Your Voice to Manage the Room
  • Avoid the Following Words that Weaken Your Delivery
  • Control Your Body Language
  • Record Yourself
  • Chapter 8 Key Points

Chapter 9: Meeting Day: Fifteen Common Mistakes to Avoid 115

  • Common Mistake #1: Failure to Systematize How You Handle Logistics
  • Common Mistake #2: Failure to Review Your Slide Deck the Evening Before and the Day of Your Meeting
  • Common Mistake #3: Failure to Send Out “Guidelines for Participants”
  • Common Mistake #4: Arriving Less Than 30 Minutes Before the Start Time
  • Common Mistake #5: “Waiting for Organizer”
  • Common Mistake #6: Not Attending to the Housekeeping First
  • Common Mistake #7: Not Providing Your Supporting Materials Prior to the Meeting
  • Common Mistake #8: Long Intros
  • Common Mistake #9: Not Telling Them What You’re Going to Tell Them
  • Common Mistake #10: The “Content Download”
  • Common Mistake #11: Believing You Cannot Create Interactivity During Asynchronous Meetings and Classes
  • Common Mistake #12: It’s All About Me!
  • Common Mistake #13: Reading the Slides to Your Participants
  • Common Mistake #14: Packing Too Much Content on a Single Slide
  • Common Mistake #15: Not Ending on Time
  • Chapter 9 Key Points

Chapter 10: Zoom Your Way to Success 129

  • From the Boardroom to the Bedroom
  • Why Video-Based Virtual Meetings Make Leaders So Uncomfortable
  • The Basics
  • Real or Virtual Background?
  • How to Create a “Zoom Room”
  • Thirty Seconds of Challenges
  • Analyzing What Went Wrong
  • How to Avoid “Zoom Fatigue”
  • Four Real Estate Case Studies: How to Put Zoom to Work in Your Organization
  • Case Study #1 Texas Realtors: How We Delivered Live CE Training to 500 Locations Simultaneously Using Zoom
  • Case Study #2 The Wall Street Journal (WSJ): Zoom Town halls and Conventions
  • Case Study #3 EXIT Realty: Leverage Your Zoom Meetings to Provide Better Service and Build Relationships
  • Case Study #4 Fidelity National Title Agency: Connect and Have Fun
  • Make Your Backgrounds Ultra-Personal
  • Chapter 10 Key Points

Chapter 11: Leading in the Dark 155

  • The Monologue Challenge: Building Engagement During Asynchronous Meetings
  • Vary Your Visuals to Keep Participants Engaged
  • Learning Management Systems (LMS)
  • Case Study
  • Avatar-Based-Platforms
  • Chapter 11 Key Points

Chapter 12: Which Principles and Tools Will You Use as You Lead? 189

  • Two Simple Steps to Take Before Your Next VirtualMeeting
  • Stay Focused on Your Participants: Use “You,” Not “I” or “Me”
  • Case Study: Twelve Real World Applications of The Six Principle Model
  • Audio-Only Meetings
  • Video Conferencing
  • Where to Concentrate Your Focus
  • How Will You Know When You Have Mastered The Six Principles?
  • Chapter 12 Key Points

Acknowledgements 207

Appendix A: Guidelines for Participants 211

Appendix B: Guidelines for Creating a Talking Circle 213

  • Talking Circle Guidelines for Your Participants
  • Outcomes You Can Achieve Using the Talking Circle
  • Using the Talking Circle as a Counseling Tool

Lead Great Virtual Meetings Online Course

Lead Great Virtual Meetings: The Steps You Need to Succeed

Are You Ready to Lead Great Virtual Meetings?

Lead Great Virtual Meetings online training unlocks the secrets of leading successful virtual meetings. Our Six Prinicple Model addresses the most important aspect in leading effective meetings–who you need to be as the leader of the meeting, not just the tips and techniques for using the various meeting platforms. Furthermore, due to bandwidth and technology issues, many participants join using “auditory-only.” This means you’re leading what is essential an old-fashioned conference call. If you’re ready to lead effectively on conference calls, auditory only meetings, webinars, Zoom, and Learning Management Systems, our training shows you how.

Online Training / Digital Chalk

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