Our live and interactive communications skills training courses are delivered fully online. Whether you need to give a conference talk, speak in a virtual team meeting, lead a sales pitch online or get tailored support, choosing the right course will show you how to influence, inspire, and build rapport for successful and effective speaking – even when you’re in different locations.
The problem with moving online
There’s a real and pressing need to move more and more face-to-face interactions into the virtual world.
But unless you’re prepared and have the right skills in place, remote meetings and events can quickly dampen your speaking impact. When you introduce a screen, weird things can happen to the dynamics, such as:
- Participants are tempted by multiple distractions - the ‘ping’ of email notifications, the doorbell, the pile of washing etc. Prezi’s State of Attention study shows 95% of all business professionals multitask during meetings.
- Vital eye contact and instant body language feedback is interrupted
- The flow of communication can be one-way and stilted
- Movement is restricted, reducing important non-verbal cues
- Personalities, humour and charisma that usually ‘light up a room’ can fizzle out on screen
- People can suddenly feel exposed without their ‘wing men or women’ in the room
- A lack of feedback results in awkward silences or people rushing to fill gaps with waffle
- Poorly communicated messages are more difficult to clarify and important information can be lost
- Technology blips lead to frustration and time wasted
The stakes are high but few people are sufficiently equipped to make online connections truly count.
The result of this?
- Overly long meetings or presentations that make your audience tune out
- A lack of need to interact so participants are disengaged and forget what you’ve said
- Jumbled and disorganised messaging structures that leave the audience confused
- Poor leadership leaving call participants confused and frustrated
- Meeting participants who are less confident about speaking up online go unheard, leading to a lack of diverse voices and one-dimensional decision making
- Meetings that become tick-box exercises rather than useful and progressive
- Speaking, sales and influencing opportunities wasted
- Drops in efficiency and team cohesion
- Time wasted
The Solution
We help you master virtual communications so you inspire your teams and grow your business.
We work directly with you and your company to adapt to the changing communications landscape and unlock the benefits of being digitally connected.
Crucially, Ginger’s approach is not like your traditional hands-off e-learning experience. Our live and interactive training with our award-winning team takes participants through our unique learn, practise and perfect process, with expert 1-2-1 feedback that drives up confidence and impact.
Our Virtually Brilliant series has three core modules to develop inspiring virtual communicators:
Module 1:Leading Online Communications for Business Results - The essentials for anyone driving online meetings, client conversations & presentations
Module 2: Virtual Presence & Impact - building strong relationships - Develop the personal qualities to strengthen connection and virtual performance
Module 3: Structure & Design - engaging a virtual group - Build clear and engaging talks, pitches and presentations for an online audience
Our TED-style Speaking for Virtual Impact programme teaches you how to harness the power of the TED format of speaking for webinars, online conferences, presentations and pitches.
We'll show you how to use storytelling to engage and inspire an online audience in our Storytelling for Virtual Presentations programme.
For leaders wanting a 1-2-1 package, our Influencing for Online Formats coaching will help you focus on the key skills you need to lead online presentations, pitches, webinars and panel discussions.
All of our highly interactive virtual speaking and communications programmes are delivered via Zoom, Skype or your preferred technology to groups or individuals and are tailored to your company’s needs and culture.
Virtually Brilliant Module 1: Leading Online Communications for Business Results
The essentials for anyone driving online meetings, client conversations & presentations
Mixed
Included in 1 categories 
Virtual Communication Skills
Virtually Brilliant Module 2: Virtual Presence & Impact - building strong relationships
Develop the personal qualities to strengthen connection and virtual performance
- Mixed
- Included in 1 categories
- Virtual Communication Skills
Virtually Brilliant Module 3: Structure & Design - engaging a virtual group
Build clear and engaging talks, pitches and presentations for an online audience
- Mixed
- Included in 1 categories
- Virtual Communication Skills
Virtually Brilliant Turbo Meetings
How to have twice the impact in half the time
- Mixed
1-day course- Included in 1 categories
- Virtual Communication Skills
TED-style Speaking for Virtual Impact
Harness the power of the TED format of speaking for webinars, online conferences, presentations and pitches
- Mixed
- 1-day course
- Included in 2 categories
- TED-Style Speaking
- Virtual Communication Skills
Storytelling for Virtual Presentations
How to use storytelling to engage and inspire an online audience
- Mixed
- Included in 2 categories
- Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
- Virtual Communication Skills