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Course Description

The ability to effectively lead virtual presentations and meetings is a critical skill for professionals across all industries. With the rise of virtual meetings taking the place of in person meetings, it’s important to know how your presentation style needs to adjust to fit the needs of an online setting. In this course, you’ll learn how to give effective virtual presentations, direct meetings that are taking place online, and overcome typical challenges that you might face in a virtual setting.

Is This Course For You?

This course is designed for a wide range of professionals in a multitude of fields including business executives, entrepreneurs, educators and trainers, sales and marketing professionals, healthcare professionals, engineers, researchers, government officials, nonprofit leaders, and anyone seeking to enhance their professional impact through outstanding professional communication. You’re ready for this course if you have a high school diploma or equivalent, are fluent in English or ASL, and are comfortable with writing and delivering speeches, but are interested in honing your virtual presentation skills. If you’re pursuing the Professional Presentations and Speeches Mastery Certificate, this is one of the two elective course options. This course also may be taken as a standalone. This course is designed to be accessible and inclusive to the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

What You’ll Learn

This course provides the knowledge and techniques to excel with presenting in the virtual realm. From structuring content for online delivery to leveraging multimedia tools effectively, you'll gain the skills to keep your audience engaged from start to finish. As part of this course, you will lead a virtual meeting of your peers and craft and deliver a presentation with a slide deck to a remote audience. You’ll also learn how to take into account the technical and logistical aspects and challenges that can arise from a virtual presentation as well as techniques to troubleshoot and keep your presentation on take.

How You’ll Learn

In this six week course, there will be both asynchronous sessions and synchronous sessions with the option to meet in-person or online, and the final presentations for this course will take place virtually. Throughout this course, you will walk through some typical technical troubleshooting challenges, analyze video presentation, practice delivery, and more. During practice sessions, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and instructors to help you improve your virtual presentation skills and improve for your final presentation. For your final project, you will give a presentation that includes a slide deck and facilitate the virtual meeting your presentation takes place during.

Skills You Walk Away With

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Establish authority and presence in a virtual setting.
  • Foster active engagement, meaningful connections, participation, and collaboration with remote presentation/meeting participants.
  • Implement strategies for creating inclusive and diverse virtual presentations and meetings that respect and accommodate the needs and preferences of a global workforce.
  • Gain a deep understanding of the technical and logistical aspects of virtual presentations and meetings. Explore tools and platforms, optimize your workspace, and troubleshoot common virtual challenges.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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