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Many people I know experienced an unsettling adjustment to a growing reality: working from home. As for me? I’ve spent the majority of my career working partially or fully from my couch, dining room table, or a desk squeezed into the corner of my bedroom.

We have trained over 1,000 teachers. Here are some of the virtual learning tips they have found most helpful: 1. Do something different every 8 minutes to keep attention. No matter how much the class likes you and you know your content, you need to change something to keep attention (every 8 minutes according to our dial testing research).

You’re running a meeting online, leading a virtual training, delivering an online presentation. It’s nearing the end & you ask: Does anyone have any questions? Silence. You try again, anyone got any questions at all? Nothing.

Personally, I’m not convinced this whole internet thing is going to catch on. It’s probably just a fad, like rock and roll. Another two weeks tops. But on the off chance virtual calls stick around, we might as well figure it out. Life is more fun when you’re good at things and we can get you there quickly. Having trained over 130,000 people as communication coaches, we’ve put together our top video conference tips to be a whiz at virtual calls, presentations and video calls:

Recently, we did a training for a group of women investment managers at a large financial service company in Zurich. Each woman came prepared with a short presentation they were working on, which we filmed when they first arrived in the morning. Then we did a full day training, the same one that we do all over the world for companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, MTV, universities and non-profits.