Webinars are conducted by many people everywhere. However, the difficult part about webinars is really on how to engage the listeners effectively. Otherwise, the listeners will switch off after a long session of presenting information.
Cathy Moore has written a short article at:
(http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2014/01/tips-for-webinars-or-virtual-training/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cathy-moore%2FLPhE+%28Cathy+Moore%29)
which gives some tips on conducting webinars which engage the listeners.
Useful tips:
1. Include many thought-provoking questions for people to answer in the chat. These should be open-ended questions rather than polls or multiple-choic questions. They’re more like, “Here’s a problem. How do you think we should solve it?” or “Here’s a draft of a solution. What’s wrong with it?”
2. Talk less often but listen more to your listeners.
3. Read the chat section and reply to the chat questions. Repeat the questions to the rest of the webinar session as other listeners might not be aware of the questions.
4. Avoid headaches and reduce development time by creating a presentation without animations or transitions — PDF is usually safe.
5. Use a headset with a decent microphone, not the computer’s default mic.
6. Limit sessions to 90 minutes at most.
7. If you’re providing a handout, make it useful, not just a copy of the PowerPoint slides. You might create a handout that includes the main slides with additional text.
8. Make the handout available at the beginning or shortly before the presentation, so participants can use it to take notes. If it’s in Word or another easily edited format, they can take notes right in the handout.
Practice giving your presentation, of course, timing yourself and allowing lots of time for the chat.
Avoid the following:
1. Disallowing the use of the public chat.
2. Adding “interactivity” by using polls to vote on non-questions, such as “How many people here have seen a boring PowerPoint presentation?”.
3. Sending people to breakout rooms.
Webinars are conducted by many people everywhere. However, the difficult part about webinars is really on how to engage the listeners effectively. Otherwise, the listeners will switch off after a long session of presenting information.Cathy Moore has written a short article at:
(http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2014/01/tips-for-webinars-or-virtual-training/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cathy-moore%2FLPhE+%28Cathy+Moore%29)
which gives some tips on conducting webinars which engage the listeners.
Useful tips:
1. Include many thought-provoking questions for people to answer in the chat. These should be open-ended questions rather than polls or multiple-choic questions. They’re more like, “Here’s a problem. How do you think we should solve it?” or “Here’s a draft of a solution. What’s wrong with it?”
2. Talk less often but listen more to your listeners.
3. Read the chat section and reply to the chat questions. Repeat the questions to the rest of the webinar session as other listeners might not be aware of the questions.
4. Avoid headaches and reduce development time by creating a presentation without animations or transitions — PDF is usually safe.
5. Use a headset with a decent microphone, not the computer’s default mic.
6. Limit sessions to 90 minutes at most.
7. If you’re providing a handout, make it useful, not just a copy of the PowerPoint slides. You might create a handout that includes the main slides with additional text.
8. Make the handout available at the beginning or shortly before the presentation, so participants can use it to take notes. If it’s in Word or another easily edited format, they can take notes right in the handout.
Practice giving your presentation, of course, timing yourself and allowing lots of time for the chat.
Avoid the following:
1. Disallowing the use of the public chat.
2. Adding “interactivity” by using polls to vote on non-questions, such as “How many people here have seen a boring PowerPoint presentation?”.
3. Sending people to breakout rooms.
Cathy Moore has written a short article at:
(http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2014/01/tips-for-webinars-or-virtual-training/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cathy-moore%2FLPhE+%28Cathy+Moore%29)
which gives some tips on conducting webinars which engage the listeners.
Useful tips:
1. Include many thought-provoking questions for people to answer in the chat. These should be open-ended questions rather than polls or multiple-choic questions. They’re more like, “Here’s a problem. How do you think we should solve it?” or “Here’s a draft of a solution. What’s wrong with it?”
2. Talk less often but listen more to your listeners.
3. Read the chat section and reply to the chat questions. Repeat the questions to the rest of the webinar session as other listeners might not be aware of the questions.
4. Avoid headaches and reduce development time by creating a presentation without animations or transitions — PDF is usually safe.
5. Use a headset with a decent microphone, not the computer’s default mic.
6. Limit sessions to 90 minutes at most.
7. If you’re providing a handout, make it useful, not just a copy of the PowerPoint slides. You might create a handout that includes the main slides with additional text.
8. Make the handout available at the beginning or shortly before the presentation, so participants can use it to take notes. If it’s in Word or another easily edited format, they can take notes right in the handout.
Practice giving your presentation, of course, timing yourself and allowing lots of time for the chat.
Avoid the following:
1. Disallowing the use of the public chat.
2. Adding “interactivity” by using polls to vote on non-questions, such as “How many people here have seen a boring PowerPoint presentation?”.
3. Sending people to breakout rooms.
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