Announcing the 2010 Webinar Series: Designing Interactive Webinars & Virtual Meetings

How to Keep People Engaged
We received such enthusiastic feedback for our fall 2009 series that we are offering a new series of complimentary webinars where you, the participants, help build the agenda. Please join us on Wednesday, February 10th or Thursday February 18th as we demonstrate eight principles for designing interactive webinars and virtual meetings and help you extend the reach of your facilitation skills.

Are you spending too much time in ineffective virtual meetings and boring webinars? Our first series of webinars on this topic clearly demonstrated the business need to get better results from virtual meetings and workshops. Setting up a web conference and slide presentation with a chat window on the side is simply not enough to keep people’s attention or achieve desired meeting or learning outcomes. As facilitators we need to design interactive agendas, prepare and motivate participants, select appropriate technology and create a meeting space where everyone is engaged and involved.

Drawing on the full range of our experience as in-person facilitators this webinar will introduce eight design principles for creating interactive webinars and virtual meetings. Past participants have told us how much they valued seeing these principles in action and the role modeling of a highly interactive webinar experience. A little to their surprise perhaps, they found that they were expected to show up and join in rather than sit back and listen (or get on with their email). Other key takeaways included:

Ready to enroll? Click here.

This one hour webinar – with required pre-work – is particularly well-suited for facilitators and trainers who are looking to transition an existing face-to-face workshop to a virtual environment or to include some virtual elements in a blended design. If this topic interests you, click here to download our white paper.

Now, if you would like to engage in an interactive discussion about this material, please join us on Wednesday, February 10th or Thursday February 18th. Registration for this session is limited to 20 participants – other dates will be offered if the session is oversubscribed. Completing the pre-work for the session is required; if you feel you can’t accomplish this in time, no worries: we will bump you to a future session and allow someone else to participate in your place.

Click here to enroll. Feel free to add questions or comments here. We look forward to having you join us.

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