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Our Virtual Workshops are the perfect way for students, faculty, and administrators to learn, share, and bond remotely. Our remote training and workshops cover everything from leadership and management to keynote addresses and in-service training sessions.

Our Virtual Training section can help your team with interactive training sessions that will teach your faculty and staff effective methods of working together remotely. We combine professional facilitation with an engaging and dynamic approach to learning and retention.

Our remote development workshops for students, faculty, and administrators include Building a Virtual Team, Virtual DISC Behavioral Assessment, Conducting Better Virtual Meetings, and Leading Virtual Teams. And, for personal development, we offer Managing Your Time at home and Virtual Coaching and Feedback.

Virtual training and development have become a necessity now with so many colleges and universities operating remotely. Tech-driven improvements have had a significant impact on our ability to deliver programs while enhancing true career inspiration for higher education professionals.

This custom virtual workshop will give you and your remote team a roadmap for moving forward in a virtual environment while helping to organize yourselves for increased efficiency and success. Our "Building Your Virtual Team" workshop focuses on methodologies that your group or class can use in future virtual gatherings, including Team Charters, Tools to Assess Participation and Engagement, Sharing of Best Practices, and How to Address Conflict. It will help you to create an Objective Statement with similar goals to ensure everyone is on the same page. We also offer a 60-Minute version of this program called We're All Virtual: Now What?

  • Group Size: Up to 25
  • Program Length: 2 to 6 hours
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This Virtual Workshop will give you and your team the skills and tools to make your virtual meetings or instruction effective and productive. You will be able to plan remote gatherings that will deliver tangible results with clear takeaways and follow-up action plans that will ensure your attendees will see value in attending and participating. We also offer a 60-Minute version of this program called Virtual Meetings Tune-Up.

  • Group Size: Up to 25
  • Program Length: 1 to 3 hours
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This virtual workshop will allow you to hone your skills as a leader of virtual teams. Whether you are accustomed to operating virtually or new to virtual leadership, you will be presented with specific tools that will help you take your leadership and your team to the next level. This course will take some of the tremendous natural abilities of current leaders and give them the skills to translate that into their new role as virtual leaders. We also offer a 60-Minute version of this program called Launching Your Virtual Team.

  • Group Size: Up to 25
  • Program Length: 3 to 9 hours
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Learn to strategically engage with all four generations that coexist on today’s campuses. This fun and interactive talk applies generational insights and strategies to higher education challenges on today’s college campuses. Professional coach Tom Leu teaches how to move beyond merely bridging generational gaps to blowing them up, by fostering heightened understanding and collaboration that produce increased learning outcomes for today’s leading colleges and universities.

  • Group Size: Up to 100
  • Program Length: Up to 1 hour
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Seeing Things Virtually is a fun, motivating, interactive, and impactful 60-minute live webinar and Q&A with professional coach Tom Leu, where you and your group will learn the six practical strategies to “seeing things” more clearly. Learn how new perceptions shift perspectives to shape new outcomes in higher education with this visually inspiring talk that challenges participants to “see” the extraordinary within the ordinary - literally and figuratively. Featuring images shot across the country from his published photography works, Tom challenges higher education professionals to adjust their perceptions, and gain new perspectives to impact their students. Participants at all levels will be inspired and informed and gain new insights to change forever how they see the world and therefore communicate for success!

  • Group Size: Up to 100
  • Program Length: Up to 1 hour
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Seeing Things Virtually is a fun, motivating, interactive, and impactful 60-minute live webinar and Q&A with professional coach Tom Leu, where you and your student group will learn the six practical strategies to “seeing things” more clearly. Learn how new perceptions shift perspectives to shape new outcomes in higher education with this visually inspiring talk that challenges participants to “see” the extraordinary within the ordinary - literally and figuratively. Featuring images shot across the country from his published photography works, Tom challenges higher education students to adjust their perceptions, and gain new perspectives to impact their education. Participants at all levels will be inspired and informed and gain new insights to change forever how they see the world and therefore communicate for success!

  • Group Size: Up to 100
  • Program Length: Up to 1 hour
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This In-Service training is an expanded version of the WIIFM Keynote that focuses on the “What’s In It For Me?” frequency and how to flip the communications script with 180° delivery of compelling content with real-world relevance. Using principles of Communichology™, professional coach Tom Leu teaches from the unique vantage point where communication skills and human psychology collide. This multi-media session explores the practical applications of harnessing “selfless-selfishness.”

  • Group Size: 20 to 100+
  • Program Length: 2.5 to 4 hours
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Tuning into "What's In It For Me" is an interactive talk that emphasizes critical retention and student engagement strategies for faculty to use inside and outside of the classroom. Attendees gain entertaining insights on powerful persuasion and influence techniques that foster learning. Participants learn proven strategies that encourage subject matter engagement to aid in student satisfaction, retention, and recruitment. Professional coach Tom Leu empowers attendees to take a macro-view of their messages' impact.

  • Group Size: Up to 100
  • Program Length: 2 to 2.5 hours
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Increase your ability and skill to provide virtual coaching and feedback that is engaging and effective. Develop trust and respect and promote self-awareness that will allow for increased development and focused career planning. Our training professionals, who have collectively worked with remote groups in over 75 countries, will customize your workshop to meet your goals and outcomes.

  • Group Size: Up to 20
  • Program Length: 3 to 6 hours
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Our Virtual DISC Behavioral Assessment workshop is a response to the sudden changes in the way in which educational institutions and employees work with each other and engage remotely. This workshop is designed to enhance each participant’s ability to understand each other better, communicate effectively via technology platforms, and collaborate as a high-functioning remote team. This virtual professional development workshop, designed to evoke self-discovery, serves as a vehicle for open discussion and conversations that will transcend participants’ professional lives.

  • Group Size: Up to 25
  • Program Length: 2 to 6 hours
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As our presentations to students and colleagues move to virtual platforms, we struggle with how we can connect with them effectively. Using the “flatness” of video as your presentation medium makes it increasingly difficult to be able to make a lasting impression. So what can we do in our presentation to make sure that we’re delivering information in a compelling and impactful way? Find out in our Virtual Presentations workshop. We also offer a 60-Minute version of this program called Virtual Presentations Tune-Up.

  • Group Size: Up to 20
  • Program Length: 3 to 6 hours
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