Engaging online audiences can be challenging. Learn how to break the mold of static lecture-style online training that drives participants to multitask or, worse, tune out. Instructional design experts Kassy LaBorie and Tom Stone cover all the steps necessary to remedy poor online training experiences and ensure that what you teach sticks.
 Interact and Engage! offers proven strategies for captivating your live online audience. With more than 50 activities ranging from openers and icebreakers to closers and recaps, the authors present a framework for igniting online training programs, meetings, and webinars. Within the pages of this book, you will discover how to start events off right and bring them to a fitting end, while achieving the event's goals in the middle―and delve into what facilitators and producers need to do before, during, and after an activity. Light and fun, this book will be your go-to resource when you need that perfect engaging activity.

Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

Business & Money

LaBorie, Kassy

Stone, Tom

Management & Leadership

Association for Talent Development

Master the Production of Virtual Events and Improve Engagement. Have you ever found yourself confidently delivering content for a virtual training session, webinar, or online meeting only to have a participant drop off? Or, have you bravely launched breakout sessions but found that participants got lost on where to go? These scenarios illustrate the convergence of virtual session facilitation and production. While attention is most often paid to the facilitation of virtual sessions, significantly less is devoted to producing them. Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars rectifies this gap. In this book, Kassy LaBorie, go-to training expert and co-author of Interact and Engage! 50 Activities for Virtual Training, Meeting, and Webinars, guides you through the production knowledge and skills a trainer needs to master the production of virtual events while delivering engaging training, productive meetings, and captivating webinars--from how to prepare the technology and content beforehand to how to run everything smoothly. Using examples from and discussing differences among common virtual conferencing platforms such as Adobe Connect, Blackboard, Zoom, Webex, GoTo suite, and Microsoft Teams, LaBorie offers a plan of action for conquering just about any platform and troubleshooting potential problems. This book thoroughly examines typical platform features (audio, webcam, chat, screen share), advanced interaction methods (polling, breakouts, Q&A), and administration and logistics elements (logins, session scheduling, reports). With production in mind, you'll also learn how to: <ul> <li>Design session materials.</li> <li>Prepare attendees to participate before and during the session.</li> <li>Build successful virtual working relationships with presenters.</li> </ul> Through stories, templates, checklists, and examples, LaBorie shares about her 20-plus years of engaging participants successfully in thousands of virtual events and gets you up to speed in no time.

Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars: Master the Technology to Engage Participants

Ignite Online Events and Virtual Training with the Use of Well-Designed and Facilitated Activities 
Creating outstanding virtual meetings, webinars, and training programs has always been challenging for novice and experienced instructional designers and facilitators alike. Virtual learning experts Kassy LaBorie and Tom Stone understand that the need to interact and engage is more important than ever, as online collaboration becomes the norm rather than the exception. 
In this new, updated edition of Interact and Engage!, the authors offer more than 75 activities as well as tips and strategies to help you create effective online learning and masterful meetings and webinars. Activities range from warmups and icebreakers to closers and celebrations, and everything in between. LaBorie and Stone cover advanced features and techniques and guide you on how to convert or create your own online activities, no matter what technology you are using now or in the future. An appendix presents two capability models for the positions of virtual facilitator and producer.

Interact and Engage, 2nd Edition: 75+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

Stone, Thomas

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by LaBorie, Kassy. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by LaBorie, Kassy

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by LaBorie, Kassy. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars: Master the Technology to Engage Participants

Interact and Engage, 2nd Edition: 75+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars