Bridge the Distance
A Virtual Wake Up Call for Leaders
  
...and news isn't good!
  
  
  
OnLINE meetings don't have to be boring!!

Featured solution: 

CPR* for Virtual
Meetings!

Collaboration!  Participation!  Results!

When you lead a web conference meeting, are you...

Wondering how many virtual team members are doing email?

Frustrated when you ask, "Do you have any questions?" and there is complete silence?

Uncomfortable that you can't see peope's non- verbal cues so you can't see who is buying in or who has a question?

Annonyed that you are unable to get people to talk and interact?

Who should attend? Virtual leaders, virtual teams

Learn how to:

 

1.  Transform Death by PowerPoint meetings (and all one-way meetings) into dynamic virtual team sessions.

 

2.  Facilitate an online meeting that is as least as good as face to face--and often better!

 

3.  Create surprisingly effective openness in your meeting, even with people that have never met face-to-face.

 

4.  Keep people from multi-tasking, and instead be fully focused on participating in your online meeting.

 

5. Significantly improve your ability to communicate clearly across accents, language proficiencies, and distance.

 

6.  Dramatically improved ability to produce more in less time!

 

7.  Develop greater speed in creating and executing a highly interactive virtual team session!

 

8.  Attain higher performance because your meeting leaders and facilitators have new facilitation talent that matches a new medium-high-performance collaboration via web conference technology.

 

9.  Dramatically reduced miscommunication than can cost thousands of dollars in rework or wasted efforts.

 
 


 

 

  
Jackie looking right

According to the National Leadership Index, a 2005 study out of Harvard University, a whopping 92% of the people surveyed want their leaders to communicate effectively.

The problem, however, is that leaders are failing miserably when communicating in today's global organizations. According to a 2006 study by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a shocking seven out of 10 employees rate communication in their companies as NOT effective!

What's that, you say? We are surrounded by 24 x 7 technologies designed to keep us in touch. We have e-mail, voicemail, instant message, PDAs, pagers, audio conferencing, Web conferencing, video conferencing -- the list goes on and on. Leaders are responding to e-mails at night, on weekends, and even on vacations. How can anyone say that the communication is failing?

Here's the answer. Leaders of virtual teams are spending far too much time doing one way communication, like e-mail and Death by PowerPoint virtual meetings. At the same time, leaders are spending far too little time (proportionately) in quality interaction-- with individuals and within the team. Is it any wonder why everyone in today's global organization is struggling with too much one-way information, and not enough two-way communication.

So the next time you go to send an email, think about if you should be calling people or hosting a meeting. The next time you have a virtual meeting, look and see if you have set up your meeting to really interact and collaborate, or are you giving a one way "Death by PowerPoint " presentation.

People in distant location are starving for real interaction with their leader and their teammates. Don't disappoint them.

  
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Jaclyn Kostner
Bridge the Distance
303.791.4499
  
  
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