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How To Lead With Impact: Strategies to Build Collaboration and Trust On Your Team
Supercharge Your Executive Presence: A Leader's Guide to Managing Your Brand At Work
How To Build Influence in the Hybrid Office
9 Essential Tips For More Effective Hybrid and Virtual Meetings
How To Build Your LinkedIn Presence
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Supercharge Your Executive Presence: A Leader's Guide to Managing Your Brand At Work
Executive presence is a critical soft skill, universally acknowledged yet often elusive, both in terms of its definition and application. Yet if we want to advance professionally, it’s something we need to learn and use in our day-to-day interactions.
The fundamental characteristics remain the same — traits like gravitas, charisma, and your appearance. However, as our way of working has evolved due to economic, cultural, and technological changes, so has the definition of executive presence.
Today, the traditional markers of executive presence have moved past conventional expectations like business suits and formal business lunches. Instead in our modern working landscape, executive presence lies in authentic leadership, crafting and projecting a career brand that follows you in and out of the office, and nurturing relationships built on trust and respect.
Join Lorraine Lee, an expert in supercharging your professional presence, as she delves into the 3Cs of executive presence for today’s leaders. Whether you’re just starting your career journey or a seasoned professional, this session is designed to empower you with the confidence and skills to enhance your leadership impact and executive presence in any organization.
Key takeaways:
- Uncover common communication pitfalls that undermine your presence — and learn strategies for turning them into your strength
- Define your UPI (Your Unique and Powerful Introduction) that succinctly captures your professional identity and value
- Discover the most impactful methods for managing up that boost your credibility and foster stronger relationships
Key Takeaways:
- The RAVE Model and how to apply it to your daily life
- Simple yet actionable ways to boost your influence, in-person and virtually
- Mistakes you may be making that are hurting your influence
How To Build Influence in the Hybrid Office
For General Audiences and AAPI Groups
Building influence feels tougher than ever these days with so many distractions grabbing others’ attention. We need to juggle building relationships both in-person and virtually, while delivering results with fewer resources.
The solution? Harnessing your influence. Influence has the power to help us get promoted, become more trusted and recognized, and be seen as a leader who moves work forward.
Follow the simple but highly impactful RAVE Model to increase and strengthen your influence in the workplace. After the session, you’ll be able to immediately implement actionable advice for key areas of influence at work.
Learn from Lorraine K. Lee, a leader at the intersection of editorial and tech, a top-rated virtual keynote speaker, and an instructor with LinkedIn Learning and Stanford Continuing Studies.
How To Lead With Impact: Strategies to Build Collaboration and Trust On Your Team
In today’s dynamic business landscape, cross-functional collaboration, open communication, and productivity are key to helping remote teams thrive.
However, when managers know how to lead their teams effectively — from implementing thoughtful onboarding and leading engaging team meetings to creating supportive feedback loops and building positive team dynamics — they create teams and cross-functional partners that trust each other and collaborate better.
This empowers team members to achieve their own professional goals while positively impacting company objectives.
Learn from Lorraine K. Lee, a LinkedIn Learning instructor with multiple popular management courses focused on leading highly functional remote teams.
Key Takeaways:
- Essential elements to include when onboarding your team
- How to leverage all different types of meetings to connect with each other and move work forward
- Strategies for facilitating collaboration across functions and geographies
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9 Essential tips for more effective hybrid & Virtual Meetings
Key Takeaways:
- The RAVE Model and how to apply it to your daily life
- Simple yet actionable ways to boost your influence, in-person and virtually
- Mistakes you may be making that are hurting your influence
9 Essential Tips For More Effective Hybrid And Virtual Meetings
Lorraine is a LinkedIn Learning Instructor for 2 popular meeting courses (40,000+ learners!)
Meetings are a multi-billion dollar problem. And they’re not going anywhere.
And with more finite resources and human capital, meetings are a major factor in what can make or break an organization.
We have 250% more meetings every day than we did before the pandemic. We’re also spending more than half of our standard workweek in meetings, for a whopping total of 21.5 hours. It’s costing companies billions and leading to unhappy employees, burnout, and Zoom fatigue — a recipe for disaster.
Join Lorraine as she shares strategies for making your virtual and hybrid meetings more engaging, collaborative, and productive — so that your employees get more flexibility in their schedules, see better results, and have an overall more positive experience at work.
How To Build Your LinkedIn Presence
Also offered as a workshop
LinkedIn is much more than a job search site. But with more than 1 billion members and a growing pool of new features, it can be difficult to know where to start and how to stand out. These days, your online brand and presence are just as important — if not more so — to help grow your career and visibility.
If you want to build your brand, attract recruiters, establish yourself as a thought leader, and find opportunities you never expected, it’s time to learn how to take advantage of all LinkedIn has to offer.
Learn from Lorraine, one of the founding editors at LinkedIn and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor with more than 300,000 followers, who will share her insider tips and tricks for leveraging the largest professional social network.
Key Takeaways:
- How to optimize your profile to get more opportunities
- Best practices for sharing content to grow your audience and visibility
- Techniques to build credibility and be recognized as a thought leader
Key Takeaways:
- What the TEA Method is and how it can help you capture attention
- Ways to appear more professional, memorable, and confident on video
- How to create the perfect video setup
BONUS: Follow along with your TEA Method checklist to make sure you’re set up for success.
Make a Memorable First Impression On Video: THE TEA METHOD
When getting on a video call with partners, teammates, or clients, first impressions matter. But with less physical space to make an impression and more factors to consider, like tech malfunctions and Zoom fatigue, standing out online can feel more difficult and overwhelming than it does in person.
The reality: Once you’re equipped with a few key pieces of information and frameworks, you’ll be ready to stand out in a virtual world.
Join Lorraine, a top-rated virtual speaker and video communications expert, who will distill everything she’s learned in an easily digestible way with tips you can implement right after the session.
How To Present Like a Pro
Presentations are undoubtedly a cornerstone of business and will continue to be an essential way to share your ideas, gain buy-in, impress leadership, and ultimately help you stand out and succeed.
But for many, public speaking is the last thing they want to do. For those who do take the plunge, they’re riddled with anxiety and nerves. On top of that, virtual presentations present their own new set of challenges — both in terms of delivery and the content itself.
How do we stand out and break through the noise?
Join Lorraine — who brings her experience from presentation platform powerhouses including SlideShare and Prezi — and discover strategies and frameworks to present with confidence and create virtual presentations that capture audience attention and inspire change and action.
Key Takeaways:
- How to feel and exude confidence during your next presentation
- Why presenting virtually is different — and how to leverage its benefits
- The 5-Step Presentation Attention Framework to build and deliver a captivating and persuasive presentation
Key Takeaways:
- How to appear more confident and competent on video
- Tips and tricks to keep your audience engaged with your content
- Best practices to optimize your video presence
Communicate with Confidence In a Virtual World
In today’s dynamic business landscape, virtual communication has become the norm, transforming the way we connect, collaborate, and achieve success.
While this shift offers unparalleled flexibility and reach, it also presents unique challenges in captivating attention and making a lasting impression.
You’re not alone if you feel that communicating effectively through a screen can feel challenging. Without the right strategies, it’s easy to get lost among the sea of video calls and remote meetings.
Join top-rated virtual speaker, virtual presence expert, and LinkedIn Learning Instructor Lorraine K. Lee as she unveils the secrets to mastering the virtual stage — whether you’re leading a team meeting, delivering a webinar, or pitching to clients — so that you exude confidence and professionalism knowing that you’re presenting your best self in a virtual world.
How to Stand Out Virtually: Video and LinkedIn Essentials
In a world that’s increasingly relying on video, knowing how to present yourself and your message over video is going to be critical to your success. The problem is, being on video can be scary and overwhelming.
Fortunately, with a few simple tips, you can ensure that you stand out, whether you’re leading a team meeting, hosting a webinar, presenting on the virtual stage or building your brand on social media sites like LinkedIn.
Join Lorraine Lee, a top-rated virtual keynote speaker, former LinkedIn editor, and popular LinkedIn Learning Instructor, for a webinar designed to help you become a more effective virtual presenter.
Key Takeaways:
- How to be more confident on video and keep your audience engaged
- Best practices for video meetings and events
- Tips and tricks for sharing video content on LinkedIn to reach a larger audience
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TESTIMONIALS
I’m so glad that Lorraine came to speak to the GitLab team during our All-Remote Communications speaker series. Her presentation was engaging, easy to follow, and introduced our team to new and innovative ideas on how to improve our video communications.
Her presentation encouraged engagement in an authentic way that made everyone enjoy the call. Lorraine was open to having a Q&A after her presentation, which was a great way for our team members to connect with her directly.
Samantha L.
I would HIGHLY recommend Lorraine as an engaging speaker who consistently delivers valuable and actionable insights. As a moderator at a LinkedIn Asian Alliance ERG event where Lorraine spoke, I was so impressed by her captivating speaking style, she kept the audience fully engaged from start to finish. She simplified complex and vague topics into practical steps that attendees could start implementing immediately.
TEJU K.
She did an amazing job being a resource for our Black History Month virtual career fair, that I immediately seized the opportunity to bring her back for a live opportunity.
Lorraine was beyond what I expected in-person. She is an events manager’s dream, she is organized, punctual and produces thoughtful content for the intended audience. Her live presentation was filled with great insight about how to present your best-self on LinkedIn.
Dorienne B.
Lorraine gave a session on the topic of building influence to our small group of affinity group members at eero/Amazon, and she did not disappoint! Our attendees gave glowing feedback about how useful and informative the session was. It was packed with a wealth of data-driven insights, actionable recommendations, and opportunities for audience members to weigh in and stay engaged. Although our group was a bit quiet, Lorraine was super professional, and her content made the hour pass by in a flash. We would love to host her again!
Amy J.
Lorraine is a fantastic speaker who has given two TED Talk-caliber sessions at Cisco. Her talks have been some of the most popular among our group.
Her presentations are dynamic, interactive, and filled with real-life examples that resonated with our team members.
I enthusiastically recommend Lorraine as a speaker and presenter to any organization. We hope to have her back again at Cisco soon!
Jason R.
I needed to update my LinkedIn profile after several years of neglect, especially when I was notified that my position was affected. That’s when I came across Lorraine Lee, who conducted two informative classes on how to revamp profiles.
Her approach was refreshingly simple yet effective. She explained various tricks and techniques, ensuring that everyone could follow along effortlessly. Her cheerful demeanor and engaging style made what seemed like a daunting task remarkably easy.
Thank you, Lorraine, for your invaluable guidance and support throughout the process. I highly recommend her.
Sulbha M.
Lorraine brought high energy and practical advice to our Women Leaders in Data and Al session, How to Build Influence. This was an incredibly well-received session for our executive leaders. As the Director of Member Services, I aim to bring high caliber speakers to our events. Lorraine came prepared with so many helpful tips and tricks that our members can apply immediately. Our attendees had great feedback and this event was a win for us!
Julie H.
Lorraine brought high energy and practical advice to our Women Leaders in Data and Al session, How to Build Influence. This was an incredibly well-received session for our executive leaders. As the Director of Member Services, I aim to bring high caliber speakers to our events. Lorraine came prepared with so many helpful tips and tricks that our members can apply immediately. Our attendees had great feedback and this event was a win for us!
Raechel H.
I’m the ERG lead for a Women’s group at Microsoft, and engaged with Lorraine through Linkedin to bring her on board as a guest speaker for the group. I was confident in signing up with her for a fireside chat. The session was clear, concise, and had live examples. Lorraine was easy to speak to and had her material prepped for the group. I would highly recommend her as a speaker for any public speaking opportunities and I am looking forward to continue working with her!
Apurva B.
Lorraine's been on the other side of the camera, too!
Check out her interviews with other prominent business leaders below.
Shelley Zalis, founder of The Female Quotient, has dedicated herself to the business of gender equality. The CEO sat down with News Editor Lorraine K. Lee to share some simple hacks she uses to achieve gender parity at work.
Educator Esther Wojcicki has undoubtedly raised three very successful children and she’s been asked countless times for her secret. It starts with giving your children a sense of comfort and control.
Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign’s Meena Harris was recently hired by Uber to focus on diversity and inclusion initiatives and says it’s important to first look at the numbers.
