Tuesday, November 15, 2016

How To Make Compliance Webinars Interesting

By Carolyn Ellis


Generally, even the most calm and collected business professionals find it hard to get excited at the mention of training seminars. While online compliance training is vital in maintaining standards and objectives, the thought of spending long hours clicking through modules or watching numerous tutorials is what springs to most people's minds. Making compliance webinars fun can help improve the trainees' learning experience. With a few tips, you could create engaging and dynamic webinars that people actually look forward to.

To develop the right content for your audience, it would help to get a glimpse into their general preferences. This would involve digging up some information on their professional and educational backgrounds. For your research, you could obtain the relevant information by interviewing various individuals and observing them while they work. This will help you know what learning approach works best for them.

Using characters in your courses gives you the opportunity to enhance comprehension and retention of the material. Such elements could take up various roles, from facilitators to narrators. Still, you need to develop each character in such a manner that the audience relates well to it as opposed to providing an irritating distraction.

Interactive scenarios are well-suited for sprucing up learning material. This is mainly because they challenge learners to make choices that result to rewards or unpleasant consequences. As such, incorporating exciting real-world scenarios into your webinars will help the audience grasp the subject matter on an emotional level. While decisions made during lessons will stay within the virtual environment, staff members will see the value in your webinars. By adding exciting challenges into the training process, the experience becomes more productive and meaningful for participants.

If your courses are too 'serious' and rigid, the audience may find them somewhat intimidating. Perhaps the best way to eliminate the tension is to inject the right dosage of humor. This could be in the form of simple, witty comments or even detailed illustrations with tons of funny elements. The key here is to use just the right amount of humor to lighten the mood without sounding offensive.

The course structure you utilize will determine how the audience views the webinars. It could either make the learning process seem approachable from the learners' perspective or as a hurdle that complicates their already-daunting schedules. The key is to use concise modules that basically highlight what really matters. In contrast, the longer modules commonly used would hardly add any fun; most learners find them arduous and boring anyway.

Videos would be a great way to present the most important topics of your subject matter. This is because one could make use of live actors, animations or even just slides to create an immersive experience for the audience. But if creating a good storyline for your content isn't feasible, you could embed videos from the internet using e-learning software.

In a nutshell, it's possible to transform just about any subject matter into an engaging learning experience. All you need is a few tools in addition to your creativity to attract the interest of your audience. People will generally be more receptive to learning when they're having fun.




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