5 Things to Include in a Virtual Training

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  Hi, My name is Lindsay Shank, and I'm in sales

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  enablement. When it sells, person asks me what sales enablement

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  is. My simple answer is that our job is to

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  make you the best of your job through coaching and

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  treating Now, no matter what role or department you were

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  in. If you're creating a training, the first thing to

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  ask yourself is, How are we going to deliver this

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  training? Is it going to be live virtual or self

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  taught? Now?

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  It would be a great if all trainings could be

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  alive. But that's simply not scalable.

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  And with work from home so prevalent, training virtually is

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  an important skill to master.

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  So I've come up with five things to include in

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  a virtual training.

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  Let's get started.

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  Number one The Why why are you doing this training

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  and why is it important to the audience a great

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  way to discuss this?

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  Why is through audience participation?

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  So let's see.

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  The training topic was how to work from home effectively.

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  I might pull the slide like this to get the

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  juices flowing and asked the audience, What are some challenges

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  you're currently facing?

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  Working from home, then is the trainer.

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  You can utilize these responses to tailor the rest of

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  the presentation to that specific audience.

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  Number two.

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  Setting the Agenda This is something that should never be

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  skipped. The agenda sets the tone for the training.

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  It also keeps the audience on track.

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  And it amplifies that why, for that purpose of the

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  training number three, what I think is the most important

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  and often overlooked care in tow all learning styles.

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  As the trainer, it's your responsibility to make sure that

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  everybody is able to learn.

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  So I'm going to give you examples for these four

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  learning styles.

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  For a visual learner, make sure to include lots of

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  graphics and shirts for an auditory learner.

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  Asked lots of questions to the audience throughout.

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  This will allow those learners to hear back their responses

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  for reading and writing.

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  You could send out a worksheet prior to the training

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  to be printed out and completed during.

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  Or you could pause for little quizzes or what I

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  like to call checkpoints throughout to test knowledge and kinesthetic

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  learners. Learn by doing so, break out into small groups

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  to do role, play or give discussion topics.

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  Many of videoconferencing software is now allow you to create

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  virtual breakout rooms number for the actionable take away.

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  It's important that everybody in your audience can immediately leave

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  the training and implement something to see results.

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  Sometimes that takeaways obvious if your training on a new

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  software or method.

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  But if it's not, prompt the audience to come up

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  with that take away.

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  So in the example of working from home effectively, I

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  would send out the audience into small groups to to

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  talk about what exactly they're going to implement to see

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  changes immediately and then come back to discuss and number

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  five results.

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  It's important that after every training, you're able to see

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  the effectiveness of that training.

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  So a few ways to do that, you could simply

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  take a test group and look at the performance before

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  and after the training to see if there was an

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  improvement. You could send out a survey or poll, or

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  you could create a certification to test their knowledge.

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  So there you have it.

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  Five things to include in a virtual training.

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  I hope that you were able to learn something from

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  this training to take to your training.

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  Thanks for watching