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By Neil Shorney , Director, Navanter Knowledge Bites. Here's the last part of our infographic series on virtual training. Today's post is some tips about how materials can engage people. If you've missed the previous installments, you'll find them here: Room layout Posture & camera position Tone of voice Interaction If you want to create and deliver virtual training that engages the learners, differentiates you from the competition, and can be even better than face-to-face, check out the following options: How To Deliver Effective Virtual Training course Advanced Facilitation Techniques For Virtual Training course Or just contact me to bounce some ideas around Navanter Knowledge Bites: Virtual training that works .

By Neil Shorney , Director, Navanter Knowledge Bites. We've reached day 4 or our series on virtual training, which brings us to what, for many trainers, is the area of biggest concern. Here are today's tips. If you've missed the previous installments, you'll find them here: Room layout Posture & camera position Tone of voice If you want to create and deliver virtual training that engages the learners, differentiates you from the competition, and can be even better than face-to-face, check out the following options: How To Deliver Effective Virtual Training course Advanced Facilitation Techniques For Virtual Training course Or just contact me to bounce some ideas around Navanter Knowledge Bites: Virtual training that works .

By Neil Shorney , Director, Navanter Knowledge Bites. In part 3 of our series on how to deliver virtual training that impresses the participants, we look at Tone Of Voice . Virtual training is different from face-to-face, and one of the tools in our arsenal to create an engaging experience. If you've missed the others in the series, you can read them here: Room layout Posture & camera position If you want to create and deliver virtual training that engages the learners, differentiates you from the competition, and can be even better than face-to-face, check out the following options: How To Deliver Effective Virtual Training course Advanced Facilitation Techniques For Virtual Training course Or just contact me to bounce some ideas around Navanter Knowledge Bites: Virtual training that works .

By Neil Shorney , Director, Navanter Knowledge Bites. Here's the next in our series of how to set yourself up for success when delivering virtual training. In part 2, we look at Posture & Camera Position - how you should position yourself and use your body when delivering virtual training. If you missed part 1, it's about room layout for virtual training . If you want to create and deliver virtual training that engages the learners, differentiates you from the competition, and can be even better than face-to-face, check out the following options: How To Deliver Effective Virtual Training course Advanced Facilitation Techniques For Virtual Training course Or just contact me to bounce some ideas around Navanter Knowledge Bites: Virtual training that works .

By Neil Shorney , Director, Navanter Knowledge Bites. This week, I'm publishing a series of blog posts to help you , whether you're a trainer, you run a training company, or you have to deliver training in your organisation. I'm going to be looking at how to deliver effective virtual training - training that engages rather than bores; training that switches on rather than switches off; training which can be better than face-to-face training! In part 1, we look at Room Layout - how you should arrange your physical space to set yourself up for success. If you want to create and deliver virtual training that engages the learners, differentiates you from the competition, and can be even better than face-to-face, check out the following options: How To Deliver Effective Virtual Training course Advanced Facilitation Techniques For Virtual Training course Or just contact me to bounce some ideas around Navanter Knowledge Bites: Virtual training that works .

One of our specialities at Knowledge Bites is virtual training - all our courses have always been available virtually, and with a decade of experience of virtual delivery, we also offer training to others in how to make the leap to virtual. Here's our latest infographic on how to deliver great virtual training. If you like it, why not pin it on Pinterest? Take a look at our brand new course: Advanced Facilitation Skills for Virtual Training .

By Neil Shorney , Director, Navanter Knowledge Bites. The training industry is beginning to wake up to the fact that virtual training is here to stay. I've just finished a call with a client who had audible excitement in her voice for the ability to reach new audiences who are just too far away for face-to-face training to be practical. Here are 5 quick tips to deliver virtual training that works: Get comfortable with the tech Tech in a physical training room is easy - you need to use the forward and backward button on PowerPoint, and you need to be able to take the lid off a whiteboard marker. That's it, pretty much, unless there's a fancy coffee machine in the room. Online, however, it's a different matter and all those things you'd do naturally in a "real" room now have buttons to control them! The good news is, most things you do in "real life" are possible online. For a course to run well, though, it needs to be slickly done, and practice an...

By Neil Shorney , Director. Time to read: 2 minutes. There's been a lot of content posted on the web, not least by me, on how to deliver effective virtual training. But there's precious little help for attendees of virtual training courses to help them really get the learning, and therefore the ROI, they need to from a virtual course. If you think about what you're paying for when you invest in training (i.e. changed behaviours, new skills rather than paying for X number of days in a hotel with a nice lunch), virtual training courses can actually be more effective than traditional face-to-face courses. But for this to happen, you need 2 things: A virtual course which is well-designed and well-delivered A little effort and support for participants from you as an organisation If you're looking for high-quality virtual training, Navanter Knowledge Bites has it covered, with our decade of experience delivering engaging training online. But still, with a little effort fro...

By Neil Shorney , Director. Time to read: 2 minutes. I've seen a number of posts on LinkedIn and some Facebook business groups that I'm part of about how to deliver training which was supposed to be delivered in a training room, in an online environment. At Knowledge Bites, this is something we specialise in - our parent brand, Navanter, was one of the pioneers of live e-learning a decade ago. So, here are my top tips to deliver effective virtual learning - in no particular order and rather hastily compiled in answer to questions from a number of other trainers... Don't run full-day sessions, it's just too long. Split a 1-day course into 3-4 shorter sessions, scheduled approx. 1 week apart. In a way, this can improve training impact as they have the opportunity to try a more focussed set of new skills before learning the next one. Begin each session with a max 10-minute review of the previous session for continuity. Ideally, have everyone remote - it's much...