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Webinars with a WOW Factor: Creating Memorable Meetings Across the Globe Webinar

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Provider:
Bob Pike Group, The

Topic(s):
Human Resources > Training & Development

Who Should Attend?
Trainers asked to deliver content virtually over the internet; Veteran & apprentice trainers looking to develop and enhance participant-centered training skills in a webinar environment; Experienced trainers who want to improve their webinar training

Full Seminar Description

It's time to put the WOW back into your webinar! Discover or rediscover techniques that will make your material come to life on the screen and over the phone. This is a course in designing creative webinars, increasing knowledge retention, and ultimately transferring learning on to the job. With so many learners checking out of web casts and doing email or finishing another task, it is important to involve the listeners and participants every 4 minutes. But how? This course explores four techniques for delivering interactive webinars. These techniques include chunking content, using openers that break pre-occupation, finishing with closers that allow for action planning, and implementing content revisiting strategies throughout. All of these tactics are specifically designed for online interaction and differ from traditional classroom engagement. With the increased popularity and need for webinars, it is vital for trainers to also look at what they should be doing before, during and after the webinar to get the most out of the session and reduce challenges during. Webinars with WOW Factor is available as a 2-day classroom course or as an interactive webinar delivered over 4 half-day sessions.

Who Should Attend:

• Trainers who are being asked to deliver content virtually over the internet
• Veteran and apprentice trainers looking to develop and enhance participant-centered training skills in a webinar environment
• Experienced trainers who want to improve the results of their webinar training
• Subject Matter Experts who deliver training programs via webinar Individuals who are asked to often lead and facilitate virtual meetings (also known as webinars)

Purpose:

• Presents proven strategies to transform webinar training programs to include participant-centered techniques
• Illuminates the importance of effective opening and closing activities for increased retention
• Explores virtual tools that can effectively engage learners in order to encourage knowledge and information retention
• Shares techniques to create and manage an effective online training environment
• Models Instructor-Led Participant-Centered training in an online medium

Objectives:

• Create effective opening and closing strategies for webinars
• Evaluate methods to successfully teach and engage the webinar learner
• Acquire tactics creating and maintaining trainer and participant motivation
• Practice designing engagement techniques into a webinar, no matter the platform being used
• Identify 30 practical tips on what to do before, during and after a webinar to plan for success
• Develop tools and skills to be better equipped to lead an interactive and appealing webinar

Take Aways:

• Certificate of Webinars with WOW Factor Attendance and Completion
• The Webinars with WOW Factor Workbook
• The Creative Training Techniques Newsletter
• Handout covering the agenda items
• 30-point job aid of things to do before, during and after a webinar
• Web addresses of sites with free interactive experiences that can be used in webinars
• Flash drive containing templates for enhancing your current webinar training

Workshop Agenda

Course Content Overview: The following are topics that will be covered in this three-day workshop. This seminar will allow you to experience, analyze, and apply information that you learn through the modules below.

Module One: Designing Webinars

• Examine the synchronous classroom
• Acquire instructional design principles for webinars
• Draft a webinar project plan incorporating C.O.R.E.
• -- Develop knowledge of webinar jargon
• -- Identify strategies to use lateral logic in training
• -- Discuss 10 deadly sins of webinars
• -- Apply tips to setting objectives
• -- Examine nine key design tips
• -- Apply key design tips to content
• -- Determine the tests of effective web-based openers and closers
• -- Differentiate benefits of different design templates
• -- Utilize skills to design effective PowerPoint™ presentations for online use
• -- Design effective evaluations for webinars

Module Two: Creating Engagement in Webinars

• Distinguish between motivating and de-motivating behavior online
• Evaluate how well you teach and engage…before, during and after a webinar
• Examine characteristics of a participant-centered training
• -- Contrast how to motivate instead of de-motivate learners
• -- List strategies to engage learners before, during and after webinars
• -- Identify action steps to take before, during and after a webinar
• -- Analyze the role of the trainer in participant-centered webinar

Module Three: Webinar Collaboration

• Discuss tips to encourage collaboration during a webinar
• Recognize strategies for asking and answering questions effectively
• Explain techniques that engage learners and add variety to a webinar
• -- Discuss how to prepare for webinar collaboration
• -- Analyze how to maintain effective group dynamics
• -- Examine the purpose and timing of questions online
• -- Identify 14 virtual engagement techniques effective for webinars
• -- Apply 58 innovative ways to add variety into your virtual training

Module Four: Tools

• Examine applications of various online collaboration tools
• Experience tools and their users
• Choose tools to use in your next webinar
• -- Discover the benefits and caution of using chat areas
• -- Identify application for tools within the webinar platform
• -- Determine tips for designing and delivering polling questions in webinar sessions

Sponsor Background:

Trainers are a tough audience to train. The involving train-the-trainers seminar you'll experience was created and fine-tuned by Bob Pike, who personally delivers training and keynote addresses over 150 days each year --- as he has for each of the last 20 years.

Pike has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Society for Training & Development and has been the top-ranked presenter at their last five national conferences. He has addressed dozens of regional meetings of the professions' leading association.

A prolific writer, Bob Pike is Editor-in-Chief of the monthly Creative Training Techniques Newsletter, author of The Creative Training Techniques Handbook, and a contributor to Personnel Administrator, Self-Development Journal, and TRAINING.

As a consultant, Bob Pike has assisted American Express, Shell Oil, PSE&G, Bally's Casino, Hewlett Packard, and many other leading companies. Mr. Pike has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) honor from the National Speakers Association and in person alone he has shared his powerful message with over 100,000 people around the world.

You'll Learn More Because of Our Faculty

Bob Pike has personally selected, trained, observed, and coached your seminar leader through a two-year preparation process. One of the nine member faculty of Creative Training Techniques will conduct your seminar. They are very skilled facilitators to ensure your satisfaction. You'll find the faculty to be "professional's professionals" and the experience very energizing.

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