As one might imagine, The Bob Pike Group always is looking for ways to make training relevant while still maintaining its participant-centered focus. When doing training online, that focus is even more critical as holding the participants' attention is more difficult to do. A few years ago, Becky Pluth came across Raptivity, a software that now has about 250 templates for creating interactive exercises for online training.
In July, The Bob Pike Group will begin one of its newest workshops which provides a basic understanding of what elearning is and how to make it participant-centered.
The highly-interactive course provides a primer for terminology, tools, and technology and demonstrates best practices for how to best implement elearning and webinars.
Scott Enebo, a BPG trainer, answers a reader's question, "I would like to develop my trainers to transition from instructor-led training to webinar training. I am looking for a "curriculum" to help me do that. Can you offer any resources to guide me?"
Watch this short video and see just how social media has been woven into the very fabrics of society.
You can get a lot of training ideas in only 140 characters! Here are some of The Bob Pike Group's best training tweets from the last few months.
Can trainers justify the use of social media like Twitter and Facebook during their daily work lives? Yes! While these tools have shown themselves to be huge in the world of sales by creating so many additional ways to touch clients, trainers have also found constructive uses for these avenues. If you are thinking of delving into the world of social networking for training, here are some tips I recommend:
Twitter can have a place in the training classroom. There are several ways this tool can help both the learner and trainer through its provision of real-time information. So what practical uses are there?
Want fast information on how to deal with difficult participants? Or perhaps fun and effective ways to make web-based learning interactive? The Bob Pike Group is offering numerous interactive webinars during August and September. These 75-minute sessions are only $149; however, if you sign up for three or more, the cost drops to only $99 per session. Group rates also are available.
The Bob Pike Group has a lot of free resources available to you, and we want to make sure you know about all of them. Using the internet, we have multiple ways we are connecting with learners.
Because you can't see your learners during a webinar, you need to utilize other methods of gauging learner energy and motivation. While polling is a great and speedy way for the presenter to "see" what is going on with participants, it can also be overused if you don't switch up the ways in which you poll your participants.
Below are a few guidelines for how best to create and use polling for quiz questions, multiple-choice questions, matching items and post-testing.
