The game is resting on their shoulders.
That’s the reality for one of the most pressure-packed positions in all of sports: the “closer” in baseball.
This kind of pitcher’s job is to come in at the end of the game and ensure that their team cements a victory.
And “closer” activities in webinars work in a similar way.
You could lead a fun and engaging training with tons of great takeaways.
But if you don’t close with intentionality, your learners won’t be set up for success.
They might forget your brilliant content.
Fail to distill it into their most urgent takeaways.
Skip out on learning from the takeaways that their peers gathered.
Or miss a chance to connect the dots between your insights and their next steps.
Here are seven examples of webinar closer activities you can use to ensure your learners know what to do with your content and how their lives will be better if they take those steps.
This closer originated in a webinar about how to lead effective energizer activities.
At the end of the webinar, we had learners type on the screen the “AAA Energizer” activity from that workshop that they were most eager to Adapt, Adopt and Apply.
How could you adapt, adopt and apply that closer for your content?
We used this closer in a webinar about how to present with pizazz.
We gave learners four attributes of a pizazz-y presenter:
Then we gave them 25 tips to help them present with pizazz.
At the end of that workshop, we invited them to flip back through the 25 tips in their handout and…
How could you adapt, adopt and apply that closer for your content? Perhaps to help prepare your learners to follow a series of principles or a checklist that you teach?
This closer came from a webinar that taught a nine-step process for delivering clear learning-activity instructions.
At the end of the workshop, we showed a windowpane that included all nine steps that we taught, and we invited learners to take out their stamp tool within the annotate bar and…
How could you adapt, adopt and apply that closer for your content? Perhaps to help prepare your learners to follow a multi-step process that you teach?
This closer came from a webinar about how to create compelling presentations.
At the end, we invited learners to text chat their nominations for…
How could you adapt, adopt and apply that closer for your content?
This closer came from a webinar about how to become a kick-ass virtual trainer.
In that webinar, we weaved in a superhero theme to make the content more fun and memorable, and to give us themed ideas for slide designs, games, and activities like this one.
At the end, we encouraged learners to look back through their notes and pick the key takeaway that stood out to them the most.
Then we asked them to use that takeaway to come up with a name for a “super trainer” who applies that takeaway…and type the name of that superhero in the chat box.
It’s a bird…it’s a plane…it’s…Object Lesson Woman!
How could you adapt, adopt and apply that closer for your content?
This came from a webinar that was Aladdin themed.
Since Aladdin was known as the “diamond in the rough,” we used a closer that incorporated a play on the “4 Cs” of a diamond, and asked learners to take these steps…
How could you adapt, adopt and apply that closer for your content?
This closer came from a webinar that utilized an outer-space theme.
At the end of the webinar, we asked learners to text chat the “UFO” they identified in the training…
How could you adapt, adopt and apply that closer for your content?
And which of those seven closers will you use first in an upcoming webinar?
