Making the most of your remote training sessions!

Ali Nazari-Nouri

Training & Consulting Partner

• What are the benefits?

• What are the challenges?

• My experience with remote training …

• Various options

• Final thoughts!

• Questions

Agenda

• No need to travel to training location

• Less costly for all involved

• Easy and less time consuming to organise

• The audience can easily ask questions, even if it is a

big crowd – shyness doesn’t come into it

Benefits of Remote Training

• The various types:

• Synchronous

• Private meetings

• Public webinars

• Asynchronous

• YouTube recordings

• Webinar recordings

Types of Remote Training

• How can we deliver a powerful presentation to an

audience we can’t see?

• How do we compensate for the loss of body language?

• Little or No feedback from the attendees

Challenges (not obstacles) in

Delivering Remote Training

What are they doing during the session?

Fear of the unknown

My experience …

My experience …

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A round with Mike Tyson

My experience …

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Talking into the

void!

Having a colleague in the sessions can be helpful

My experience …

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Receiving feedback through the evaluation forms

My experience …

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• WebEx

• AdobeConnect

• GotoMeeting

• Collaborate

• Etc.

Various options

• Mute

• Screen sharing

• Permissions

• Set the expectations

Options for Managing Attendees

• Chat

• Phone

• VoIP

• Video

Options for communicating

• How can we make our remote training sessions more

interactive?

• Polls

• Individual, small and large group activities

• Take the role of moderator and facilitator, rather than

presenter/speaker

• Select the right technology

Interactive webinars

Technical/User Difficulties. Designing

Interactive Webinars.

• Preparation and practice

• Know your online meeting software

• Practice new activities

Technical/User Difficulties. Designing

Interactive Webinars.

• Timing

• Give participants enough time to do polls, complete

activities, ask questions in the Chat area, etc.

• Starting on time (not making people who attended promptly)

Technical/User Difficulties. Designing

Interactive Webinars.

• Have a plan for audio

• Mute lines- your options, participants options

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Technical/User Difficulties. Designing

Interactive Webinars.

• Help!

• Participants need an easy way to ask for assistance

• Log into the session well in advance – I normally log in

30 minutes before

• Use the chat panel effectively

• Your tone can set the mood!

• Be aware of the audio/video delay

• Use verbal cues to describe what you are doing

• Erratic mouse movements!

Final thoughts !

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• 3 sessions have been planned for November:1. How to Articulate Library Value - Thursday, 4pm November 20, 2014

2. How to Create a Marketing Plan – Tuesday 4pm December 2, 2014

3. How to Work with the Common Core - Tuesday, 4pm December 9, 2014

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