How to make your virtual trainings a success!

The lockdown & its aftereffects have been quite harsh on the economy. Most of the industries have witnessed a downfall in the recent times. But the online training industry has experienced a sudden boost like never before. According to an article by The Times Of India (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/online-courses-have-become-popular-during-the-lockdown/articleshow/75449022.cms), the top online training companies have received tremendous response from individuals including students during the lockdown. This has given rise to a series of online training sessions in wide range of topics. From art to music, business to baking, you name it and there is an online training session available for it in the market.

Now that everything has become technology-dependent, the pre-defined notions about training have also taken a turn. This is because there is a huge difference between the classroom training sessions and virtual training sessions. Virtual sessions are much more advanced, compact, and customized as per the industry standards. In order to stand out in the competitive virtual training industry, your training delivery needs to be flawless.

So next time before you get ready to conduct any virtual training session, make sure that you follow a few essential steps:

Proper Planning Is The Key To The Efficiency

Nothing works out without proper planning. Everything needs to be decided and planned out way before the execution starts. Since the idea of virtual training session is quite new to a lot of people, extra efforts must be given on explaining each and every point to your team. Make sure that you prepare a definite checklist of all the things that you need to complete before the training session. This checklist will help you to plan it out well and save you time at the last moment. Also, you must keep it in mind that the checklist might be different for different types of trainings. So make sure that you edit the checklist from time to time.

Prepare Your Team For All Kinds Of Situations

Trainees. Check. Content. Check. Voiceover. Check. Internet connection. Disrupted. What will your team do now? Are they prepared to face the last moment glitches? Well, you must invest some time and efforts in gearing up your team for all kinds of backlogs. There might be situations where it would get difficult for a single trainer to handle. That is when your team must showcase proactiveness and efficiency in managing the situation. Even if you are delivering an individual virtual training session, make sure that you have a helping hand with you.

The Feedback Should Be Your Route To Perfection

Always try to get detailed feedback from the trainees as soon as the training session is over. This is an important step because the virtual window will not give you the opportunity of human interaction. In that case, the improvements in the training sessions would depend upon the feedback given by all the trainees. So make it a point to reach out to all the trainees and provide them with a chance to give you their testimonials. Then it would get easier for you to make the adjustments accordingly.

Interaction defines the success

Having said that virtual trainings is going to dominate the future market, it also comes with riders of monotonous schedules, incomplete communication, lack of response from trainees. Hence your core focus should be in making the training interactive. Having complete knowledge of the platform you are conducting will help you identify in built tools such as polls, chat box, videos. Use short clips of videos, surveys, polls, group activities as some of the techniques to make your training lively & interactive.

All the above-mentioned steps are not mandatory in nature but they are proven to be effective. When I started my virtual training sessions, I followed this particular line of process and the sessions were a clear hit amongst the trainees. That is why I thought of sharing few tips, I hope these would encourage you to give it a try and spread knowledge across. 

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