10 Brainboosters in Online Training: Engage and Excite Your Audience!

10 Brainboosters in Online Training: Engage and Excite Your Audience!

As a live online trainer, you compete against many strong distractors during your online training. Participants are only 1 click away from their e-mail, their family or colleagues might be in the background asking for their attention. And a day full of meetings and high work pressure is on the minds of many participants. How can you hold your participants' attention during your online training? How can you help them boosting their brain power, so that they keep focused and remember the online learnings?

Many online trainers use energizers or breaks to try to keep the attention level up, but these techniques only interrupt participants from their moment of learning. The better solution is to understand the online attention span, to know scientific facts about boosting brain power and have teaching methods ready to help your participants process the online information.

During this education session, 10 brain boosting activities for online training are demonstrated. Attendees learn more about the scientific background of how to keep the attention of online participants focused on learning. What 3 crucial activities are that an online trainer has to do during the first 10% of the training time? Examples of online teaching forms are shown for interactive knowledge sharing, online brainstorming and online skills training.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE EVER:

—Begged your audience to "turn their cameras on"
—Struggled to figure out how to engage those that are quiet during online trainings or meetings
—Wanted to add some dynamic, engaging elements to your virtual facilitation

IN THIS SESSION YOU WILL:

1. Learn the 3 crucial activities that an online trainer has to do during the first 10% of the training time to keep the focus and attention span high

2. Master implementing 10 brain boosting activities in your online training

3. Practice online teaching methods for better interactive knowledge sharing, online brainstorming and online skills training 

About our speaker Laura van den Ouden

Laura van den Ouden is owner and trainer for Expert Trainers, a training company in the Netherlands. With over 25 years’ experience in Didactics, Laura designs and implements Train-the-Trainer programs for corporate universities and international organizations. Laura was named Netherlands Trainer of the Year 2020. She wrote 6 books including bestseller ‘E-Book 100 Online Working Methods’. In 2021 Laura was named 1 of 20 HRD Thoughtleaders to follow by Dutch Magazine for Organizational Development. Laura is a true Digital Nomad: she travels around the world with her husband in their catamaran, her home and office is the boat where she provides virtual trainings for L&D-professionals and trainers.

Based on scientific facts about the attention span during online sessions and how the brain works in online session, she created a Train the Trainer to implement lessons learned in engaging online participants. In 2020 Laura wrote the best selling E-book ‘100 online working methods’ for trainers to use during their online training sessions.

The ATD South Florida Chapter has been pre-approved by the   ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of Certified Professionals in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. This program qualifies for a maximum of 1 point.

Event Details

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:15 p.m. | Welcome and Introductions

6:15 - 7:45 p.m. | Presentation and Q&A

7:45 - 8:00 p.m. | Prizes and Closing Remarks

Registration:

Zoom link will be provided by email before the event

Registration questions, contact VP, Professional Development Kevin Coyne at profdev@atdsfl.org