Learn how to engage participants and facilitate effective training in a virtual environment.
Are you intimidated to train online? Are you worried that you can’t keep participants engaged in a virtual environment? Not sure how to teach essential skills through a screen?
What if you could learn simple strategies that could transform your online course delivery?
Whether you are new to facilitating in general or already an experienced in-person facilitator having to adjust to a virtual world, this guidebook will be the key to your success.
The concepts in this book are simple yet extremely effective. Each strategy includes numerous examples for courses of any size, taught through technological platform, and delivered in any format (live or self-paced).
In this book, you will learn:
• Foundational principles of facilitating, such as how to create a welcoming environment
• How to use technology and media effectively for presentations and learning activities
• Strategies to organize the learning process, including a three-phase training design
• Tips for personal facilitation effectiveness—especially how to avoid the dreaded silence
• Suggestion to minimize facilitation inhibitors with tips to build trust and reduce resistance
• Bonus: Design and facilitation checklists