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How to Get Virtual Participants to Appear on Camera

Virtual Training Heroes – Webcam Tip Have you ever struggled getting participants to want to turn on their webcams? Try this: Here is a quick video explaining how this works: Example questions: Where do you WISH you were located today?What was your superpower result, Transformation, Innovation, Connection, or Spark? Idea: Break them into small groups, […]

How to Spark Virtual Conversations

🦸🏼‍♀️✨Virtual Training Heroes – Spark Conversations Tip✨🦸🏽‍♀️ Sometimes getting participants to unmute and participate in conversations can be a challenge. Try using a Quote Connect activity! 💭Choose and arrange a few quotes connected to your topic on a slide or some other shared screen. Make sure to provide the quotes in a variety of accessible […]

Virtual Training Superpowers: A Facilitator’s Discussion Guide

Virtual Training Heroes present online sessions every day, ready to do battle with distractions and remote working culture.  And now that your superpower has been tapped, what does success look like? In what ways will you use this power to transform, innovate, connect, and spark your online sessions? How will you use the free activity […]

Webinars Don’t Have to be Lectures!

I love webinars!Actually, I love presenting them more than attending them. In a post for the Association for Talent Development (ATD) I explain what I mean when I say I love webinars. In the article I share: Strategies to manage interaction and avoid lecture For example: Use the feedback tools to track your audience reactions. Ask open […]

Making Learning Connections & the Use of Intentional Silence in Virtual Training

3 step never fail debrief process for virtual training

Kassy’s 3-Step, “Never Fail” Debrief Process The use of learning activities for interactive and engaging delivery in the virtual classroom is highly effective and it is equally important to consider how to respond to participant interactions. All too often, virtual trainers are up against time constraints and distracted by managing technology. As a result, they […]

Engaging Virtual Participants – You Can Do It!

Engage virtual participants-you can do it! If you are a virtual presenter, facilitator, or trainer and you want better engagement and interaction from your participants (note what I did there, participants, not attendees), then take some time to honestly ask yourself the following questions, also known as The Virtual Trainer’s Mantra: What did I say […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #20

Virtual Training Hero Tip #20

Begin with ACTIVE Participation Let’s lose the music hold, hidden attendee lists, and mute upon entry for our live virtual training sessions. We wouldn’t do such things in an in-person training session, so why do them online? Teach everyone how to properly connect and participate, and then facilitate active learning rather than passive lectures. Do […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #19

Virtual Training Hero Tip #19

Producers: Choose the Best Type to Support Your Event Did you know there are different types of producers who can help you deliver incredible virtual training sessions and webinars? I just finished the manuscript for my 2nd book with ATD Press (Association for Talent Development) on the topic of “Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, & Webinars,” […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #18

Virtual Training Hero Tip #18

Breakouts: Use this Breakout Checklist for Success Visit the rooms to confirm participants have connected Load or help them share the files or their screens Remind them they can ask for help Send broadcast communication messages and time alerts Welcome them back and debrief as appropriate Yep, you probably need a Producer! Breakouts are one […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #17

Virtual Training Hero Tip #17

Use Polling as a Quiz to Break up a Lecture or a Demo This quick virtual training hero tip was originally posted on LinkedIn in May, 2020. To get my latest tips, connect with me there! Those of you who know me likely also know that my two least favorite things to do in a virtual […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #16

Virtual Training Hero Tip #16

This quick virtual training hero tip was originally posted on LinkedIn in May, 2020. To get my latest tips, connect with me there! BREAKOUTS: Select a Team Leader to Get Things Started “Wait, what did she say we were supposed to do?” – Breakout Participant Some things do not change. When facilitating a small group breakout […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #15

Virtual Training Hero Tip #15

This quick virtual training hero tip was originally posted on LinkedIn in May, 2020. To get my latest tips, connect with me there! BREAKOUTS: Separate the Activity Instructions from the Technical Directions Here’s the thing about learning in the virtual classroom — participants are confused and unable to pay full attention to all that is going […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #14

Virtual Training Hero Tip #14

This quick virtual training hero tip was originally posted on LinkedIn in April, 2020. To get my latest tips, connect with me there! BREAKOUTS: Confirm Participants Are Ready Using Feedback Tools Last week when I was sending the participants into small groups to work together on a shared activity using the breakout room feature, I forgot […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #13

Virtual Training Hero Tip #13

This quick virtual training hero tip was originally posted on LinkedIn in April, 2020. To get my latest tips, connect with me there! Set Expectations based on Objectives How do your participants know what to expect from your webinar?What about your virtual instructor led training? Or your live online meeting?Or are you calling it a live […]

Virtual Training Hero Tip #12

Virtual Training Hero Tip #12

This quick virtual training hero tip was originally posted on LinkedIn in April, 2020. To get my latest tips, connect with me there! Create and Encourage Chatversations! What is that, you ask? Why, it is a conversation using the chat. Chat can be used for so much more than providing information, assisting with technical support, and […]

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