"Will your Zoom/Teams training be interactive enough?"

Yes! But let me explain a bit about why….

it’s true that with virtual training you don’t get as much interaction from one attendee to another as you do with in-person training. But that is often not particularly desirable anyway (it’s fun, all the cross-banter, but takes up time and doesn’t add much information)

The key question is how much interaction there is between ME and the group, and with everyone facing me, almost 1:1, it can work really well.

So what I do is….

a) Sessions only an hour long so people don’t get screen fatigue.

b) Use whiteboard (a real one!) rather than powerpoint, to give the session some SOUL.

Whiteboards are more interactive than powerpoint because I can adjust to the audience, I can even write up their ideas and answers

c) I use on screen voting by hands up, thumbs up or down etc

d) Sometimes I use mentimeter to get anonymous voting and surveys

e) I use the chat a lot (I am able to monitor it while talking, don’t ask me how) – I ask things like “What do you think would be a good opening offer? Type it in the chat” and “What sort of things do you negotiate over? – put something in the chat” or “How long do you think the critical path is in the diagram we just made? – put the answer in the chat”

f) I have found ways to make pretty much everything interactive over Zoom/Teams, for example, making a critical diagram, each person I turn unmutes and tells me which task to put in next and what it depends on, so we build the diagram together. Or we all compile a table of features and benefits and how they relate to eachother.

g) My training is always fun, and often funny – it is NEVER boring, you won’t find anyone ever who would say that any one of my sessions was boring.