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Mastering Communication in Meetings: Speak Up for Success
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Created byVash Academy
Last updated 5/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Speak up confidently in meetings with clear, well-timed contributions.
  • Prepare effectively before meetings using agendas, goals, and research.
  • Ask powerful questions that increase visibility and influence.
  • Handle interruptions, disagreement, dominant voices, and tough questions professionally.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 2h 38m total length

  • Welcome: What You Will Achieve and Why This Course Exists6:03
  • Why Speaking Up in Meetings Is a Career-Defining Skill7:10
  • Types of Workplace Meetings and Their Unwritten Rules8:13
  • Power Dynamics and Who Controls the Conversation9:19
  • The Internal Barriers That Keep You Silent8:36
  • Reading the Room: Verbal and Non-Verbal Cues9:11
  • Pre-Meeting Preparation: Agenda, Research, and Goals10:23
  • Crafting Your Message: The 30-Second Rule9:36
  • Formulating Powerful Questions That Get You Noticed9:38
  • Finding the Right Moment: Timing, Tone, and Voice12:00
  • The PREP Method: A Framework for Clear, Confident Speaking13:24
  • Disagreeing Professionally Without Damaging Relationships11:18
  • Handling Interruptions and Reclaiming the Floor10:31
  • Dealing with Dominant Voices, Blank Moments, and Tough Questions13:30
  • High-Stakes Meetings, Senior Audiences, and Virtual Presence13:15
  • Building a Long-Term Habit: Your 30-Day Speak-Up Plan6:49

Requirements

  • No prior experience required. You only need a willingness to improve how you communicate and participate in workplace meetings.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence, which has been applied to deliver a clearer, more engaging, and high quality learning experience.

Do you ever sit in a meeting with something valuable to say, but hesitate, overthink, or wait too long until the moment passes? This course is designed to help you change that.

Mastering Communication in Meetings: Speak Up for Success teaches you how to participate in workplace meetings with more confidence, clarity, and influence. You will learn how to prepare before meetings, understand meeting dynamics, read the room, choose the right moment to speak, and communicate your ideas in a way that feels professional and natural.

The course covers practical skills you can apply immediately, including how to craft a clear message using the 30-second rule, how to ask powerful questions, how to use the PREP method for structured speaking, and how to disagree professionally without damaging relationships.

You will also learn how to handle difficult moments, including interruptions, dominant voices, blank moments, tough questions, senior audiences, and virtual or hybrid meetings. By the end, you will have a 30-day speak-up plan to turn these skills into a lasting habit.

This course is ideal for professionals, team members, managers, students, and anyone who wants to become more visible, confident, and effective in meetings.

Who this course is for:

  • Professionals, team members, managers, and students who attend meetings and want to speak up with more confidence, clarity, and influence.

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