The virtual meetings training gives you the methods to transform your remote meetings into productive and engaging moments. Over a full day, you discover facilitation techniques, interactive tools, time management and best practices for remote meetings that truly succeed. A skill that has become essential in hybrid work in French speaking Switzerland.
Transform your video calls into productive moments where everyone really engages
In daily life in French speaking Swiss organizations, remote meetings have become the norm but their quality remains uneven. This course focuses on hands on cases: prepare an agenda that guides, facilitate balanced remote discussion, use interactive tools (polls, breakout rooms), conclude with clear decisions.
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Hybrid work has become the norm in most organizations in French speaking Switzerland. Yet many remote meetings remain boring, ineffective, dominated by a few voices. This course gives you the methods to make them truly productive.
Preparation conditions everything. The course details the creation of an agenda that guides participants, sending a clear invitation with objectives and duration, preparing necessary visual materials.
The challenge of remote meetings is engagement: on screen, some stay silent, others monopolize. This course gives you techniques to explicitly solicit, establish speaking turns, manage interventions and ensure everyone can contribute.
Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet offer underused interactive tools: live polls, breakout rooms, collaborative whiteboards, annotations. The course details their concrete use to pace a remote meeting.
A remote meeting that ends without concrete actions has lost its meaning. The course emphasizes conclusion: recap decisions, assign actions with owner and deadline, send an operational minute right after.
Designed for managers, project managers, trainers, sales staff and all profiles who regularly facilitate remote meetings.
At ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this course runs over one day with an expert instructor and a limited group.
Which video conferencing tools are covered?
Microsoft Teams primarily, Zoom and Google Meet as complement. Facilitation techniques apply to all three.
Do I need to master Teams or Zoom before this course?
Basic use is helpful but not mandatory. The course reminds tool fundamentals.
How to maintain attention in video conferencing?
Frame duration, vary rhythms (pause, poll, breakout), regularly solicit. The course details these techniques.
Does the training cover hybrid meetings?
Yes, the specifics of hybrid meetings are covered.
Is this training held in Geneva?
Yes, at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
How long to become a good meeting facilitator?
The basics are acquired in a day. Mastery comes with regular practice on your own meetings.
How to go further after this training?
The Microsoft Teams course for technical mastery of the tool, or management trainings to lead a remote team.
Telework managers, project leaders in distributed teams, hybrid mode facilitators and any collaborator who regularly facilitates video meetings. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A manager turning a deadly video into a lively meeting through interactive facilitation techniques. A project leader structuring a multi-time-zone meeting without exhausting anyone. A facilitator running a hybrid workshop mixing in-person and remote. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with in-person meeting facilitation for fundamentals, non-verbal communication for the body dimension adapted to video, and professional communication for overall exchange quality. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Telework has imposed itself as a normal work mode in most Geneva and Lausanne organizations. Remote meeting quality directly conditions the quality of the distributed collective. This training proposes an outfitted approach for profiles wanting to professionalize this critical practice, integrating 2025-2026 tools (Teams Copilot, Zoom AI Companion, Loop) with critical posture.
Most participants signal a noticeable effect from the first or second week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional rhythm, with milestones at one, three and six months for participants wanting to track their progression more formally over time.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Does the course cover Teams, Zoom, Google Meet?
Yes, main tools are covered, with focus on facilitation methodology independent from platform.
Are AI tools in meetings integrated?
Yes, a critical panorama of current AI tools (automatic summary, action tracking, transcription) is integrated.
Do we work on personal recurring meetings?
Yes, each participant arrives with two or three meetings to rework. You leave with a concrete action plan.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
