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In this post, we’ll have a look at why and how to use Blackout Bingo to prime learners for new information to come. Why Use Blackout Bingo? How do you prepare workshop participants for important information to come? A common way to prepare participants is to take them through an agenda on a slide or …
8-hour training days may be the norm for in-person training, but should we consider this format for Live Virtual Training? Back in April 2020, I published a post called “When Everything is Suddenly Virtual”. In it I looked at what scientists and expert practitioners were saying and concluded that Shorter Trumps Longer (Bowman, 2011) when …
The questions have come up many times: “What are the differences between the ‘Training from the BACK of the Room’ Virtual Edition (TBR-VE) Class and the in-person TBR Practitioner Class? Are the classes interchangeable? Does one class replace the other?” Here are 4 major differences between the TBR-VE Class and the in-person TBR Practitioner Class: …
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After months facilitating, producing and attending live virtual events, I have observed a recurring range of mistakes we often do as meeting hosts that can have an impact on the effectiveness and success of the event. One of the areas that frequently catches us is how to set up and deliver an effective use of …
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“Platform skills” is the term most often used for face-to-face presentations: the presenter’s voice tone, body movement, facial expressions, movement, and energy. Let’s translate all of that to the virtual world with “staging.” What is Staging? “Staging” in the virtual world is defined as everything that is live-streamed by the virtual class presenter/trainer/host. Staging includes …
This is part of a series of posts investigating the 6 Trumps for Live Virtual Classes which we introduced in our post When Everything Is Suddenly Virtual. We suggest that Small Trumps Large. What does this mean? For example, when it comes to class size, our thinking is that smaller groups are better than large …
The last few weeks have been pretty tough on everyone. The new “normal” is quite different, and we have no idea what “normal” will look like when things “return back to normal”. So what have we been up to? I love working with my colleagues at Actineo because we pride ourselves on doing a job …
I’d like to talk about the Right to Pass from the Training from the BACK of the Room! Practitioner course. This is a follow up to my previous post about Psychological Safety and C1 – Connections activities. We often overlook choice as part of bringing Psychological Safety to the training room. If a participant has …
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We use Brain-Friendly Training techniques to create engaging training courses. We have picked up many of these techniques from studying Sharon Bowman’s Training from the BACK of the Room! book and also delivering the TBR Practitioner Course. So what can you do to create engaging training courses?
Most trainers talk about the importance of “psychological safety,” both in the classroom and in the workplace. But how do you go about creating it from the moment learners step into the classroom or training space? Psychological safety is a big deal, both in the real world and the virtual one. I know I struggle …
Training from the BACK of the Room!: Psychological Safety and C1-Connection Activities. Read More »
