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• Turn off email, phones, instant messaging tools

• Get involved in the webinar. Use the Q&A panel to submit your questions

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Did you know that it takes four times longer to complete a task when it’s

interrupted? According to John Medina – Brain Rules

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Get the most out of the webinar today

• Turn off email, phones, instant messaging tools

• Get involved in the webinar. Use the Q&A panel to submit your questions

• Let colleagues know you are on a webinar – to avoid distractions

Did you know that it takes four times longer to complete a task when it’s

interrupted? According to John Medina – Brain Rules

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Motivating and engaging with your

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What signs do you recognize?

1. No-shows, learners not

attending

2. Lack of pre-work completed

3. Learners not responding to

questions

4. No (or very low number) of

volunteers

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Provide a strong roadmap

Set the RIGHT expectations for your audience!

What can be done to motivate learners

Tips and techniques that encourage interaction and engagement

Design online learning that captures the learner's attention

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Motivating ahead of the session

Address the WIIFM

Create strong messaging internally

Capture success stories

Create learning paths not events!

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Do they do the pre-work?

Presentation Skills Workshop

View Don McMillan video

Pre-work Part 1

Pre-work part 2

Workshop Post

Session Post Session

Prepare 15 Minute

presentation for the workshop

Attend 90 minute

workshop Review presentation and submit Complete

session evaluation

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Rename pre-work to get them to complete it!

Presentation Skills Learning Path

View Don McMillan video

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3 Module

4 Module 5

Prepare 15 Minute

presentation for the workshop

Attend 90 minute

workshop Review presentation and submit Complete

session evaluation

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Use session guidelines – every session!

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So what can be causing the distractions?

Outlook open? Mobiles switched on? Instant Messaging on? Documents Open? Calendar Alerts? Distracting colleagues?

Competing priorities? Did not want to be there?

So many options, in truth

WE DON’T KNOW

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It could even by YOU!

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John Medina – Brain Rules

Brain Rule #4 Attention – We don’t pay attention to boring things.

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What does that mean for us

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You should prevent me from multitasking

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Put yourself in the room with them!

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Create interaction

Facilitator and audience

Audience among one another Audience and technology

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Keeping our audience engaged and connected

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What in a virtual event engages YOU?

What in a virtual event disengages

YOU?

Keeping our audience engaged

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Create engagement every 3 – 5 minutes

Breaks

Use Q&A

Chat

Reading Polls

Annotating

Reflection

Engage

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10 tips to keeping our audiences engaged

Ensure maximum audio quality

Call on people using their names

Pace your sessions, provide breaks

Don’t read directly off the screen

Change your inflections

Use multiple voices

Minimize references to technology

Use open discussions

Create mental visuals

Have FUN!!!

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Above all I’d like to hear from you directly, so please don’t hesitate to send any comments, questions or feedback to me at: dsmith@tmaworld.com

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