Yesterday a group of training practitioners gathered to talk about virtual instructor led training, and the question was posed, “What doesn’t belong in a virtual classroom?” I had the privilege of being an observer of the discussion. How you answer the question might reveal more than you
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Hi Roger, I just wanted to reach out and thank you for your webinar yesterday. I found it very insightful and am keen to try out some of your strategies for making my presentations more engaging. …I was interested in your approach of more slides but not more content. A lot of the presentations I
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Think about how written music works. Looking at something on a piece of paper is a FAR cry from real music, right? So what do composers and arrangers do? They include a myriad of annotations that give a musician looking at the sheet music direction on volume and tempo and repeats and mood and on
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In my last post I took a step back to ask, “What do I wish I knew waaay back then that I’d share with a webinar/virtual classroom newbie?” Now, based on some questions from a recent webinar I delivered, here are 6 ideas for taking the next step (and, frankly, many experience
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Many of us are old enough to be tempted to say, “If I had only known back then what I know now…,” and fewer of us were wise enough to get a mentor to help us avoid some bruises along the way. What follows was inspired by a conversation I was having recently with a