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7 Quick Tips For Your Next Live Virtual Training

I’m sure that over the past year, like us here at Eureka!, most, if not all of your training has been in the live virtual world. We don’t need reminding about the big things, but here’s 7 quick, easy tips that you may have forgotten about.

1 – Tell learners how to respond
When you ask a question include how your learners should respond eg:

  • Add to chat
  • Reaction – thumbs up
  • Use microphone
  • Thumbs up on webcam
  • Add to whiteboard

2 – Acknowledge
Use learners names to:

  • Welcome learners as they arrive.
  • Thank them for adding ideas to slides and chat.
  • Thank them for giving a response via the webcam

This makes learners feel part of the team and encourages more interaction.

3- Don’t be afraid of silence
When you ask a question, give learners sufficient time to think about the question and to consider their response. Be silent, we don’t need to speak all the time.

4 – Ask learners to respond when returning from breakout rooms
When you close breakout rooms say, ‘Please give me a thumbs up if you are back in the room and can hear me’.

This helps refocus the group and bring their attention back to the main room.

5- Encourage note making
When ideas have been added to the whiteboard/slide such as key principles, Do’s and Don’t’s etc – ALWAYS encourage learners to capture these in their ‘ideas book’ and ALLOW time for them to do this (remain silent during this time).

6 – Use ‘random selectors’ for selecting activity leaders and spokespersons
To make sure it’s not always the same person taking the lead during activities use random selectors to select activity leaders eg say, ‘The activity leader/spokesperson will be …’

  • The person that has been with the organisation for the longest time
  • The person that has been with the organisation for the shortest time
  • The youngest person
  • The oldest person
  • The person who is next on holiday

Etc

Notice that often there are pairs, that’s so that if you have a second activity, you can use the same idea but guarantee that you have a different leader/spokesperson as for example, the longest serving and shortest serving member of the organisation cannot be the same person.

7 – Eyes top third
When you use your webcam, make sure your eyes are roughly in the top third of the screen and that the webcam is in line with your eyes. Look into the webcam as you speak (but don’t be afraid to animate your body).

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Next time that you are faciliating live virtual training, apply one of the above ideas that you’ve forgotten to use recently, or try one that you haven’t used before. It’s the little things we do that make all the difference.

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