Would you like to make collaboration with your course participants as efficient and targeted as possible? Then create an online course where you share all important information and framework conditions. This way, you create the perfect foundation for transparent and efficient collaboration!

One of the most important factors for efficient collaboration is that both parties have the same goal in mind and know what they are working towards. As a trainer, you should therefore assess your course participants at their current status and make it clear what the framework conditions are for your collaboration. For example, you can do this with the help of an online course that can serve as a common thread for your collaboration. We at blink.it call this online course the “digital office.”

This online course is the central repository where all important information is stored. This is available to course participants for questions – similar to staff in a secretariat.

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Efficient Collaboration Even Before the First Meeting

Do you want to capture meaningful results already during the first meeting with your client? Then you should place value on meeting preparation! This is where the digital office comes in, as this online course optimally prepares your course participants. But how does that work?

Sample Course for the Digital Office // blink.it

To design your collaboration with your course participants as targeted as possible, you should start by clarifying:

• what goal your course participant wants to achieve

• what the current status of the participant is

• what the biggest challenges are to achieve the desired goal

Additionally, you should establish in the digital office how communication takes place, which tools are used, and what your joint working method is. To give you an insight into the digital office, we have created an exemplary structure of the online course for you:

How to Structure Your Online Course

1. Welcome Blink

In a short video, you can warmly welcome your course participants and introduce the course. Additionally, you can clarify the following questions: How does the course work? What is the goal of the course? What is the goal of the collaboration?

2. Technical Aspects

If your course participants do not yet know the blink.it platform, you can explain how blink.it works in this blink. For this, you can either record a screen capture or link to the blink.it explanatory video.

3. Organizational Matters

In this chapter, you can create different blinks for upcoming appointments, Zoom links, or your contact information. This way, your course participants can access all important information with one click.

4. Goal of the Collaboration

In this chapter, your course participants will work out in advance what their desired goal is and what they hope to achieve from the collaboration. They should also think about their current status: Where does your course participant currently stand? What are the biggest challenges? These questions will help you as a course leader to better address the needs of the participants.

5. Preparation & Status Quo

In order to work effectively with your course participant during the first meeting, you should clarify in advance where the participant currently stands and how the corporate strategy is structured. Here, you can also find out how your participant works (tools, approaches).

6. Checklist

Create a checklist that contains all important points and makes it clear to your course participants which steps they have already completed. This way, you give the participants a clear structure that they can orient themselves to.

7. Recordings of Your Live Sessions

Record the live sessions and upload them to the digital office afterwards. This way, all participants can reflect on the discussed content again!

Checklist: Is Everything Prepared? // blink.it

Goal of the Digital Office

Not only your course participants benefit from the online course “digital office.” In order to make collaboration efficient, you as a course leader must also prepare for the meetings just like your participants. After all, you want them to achieve their desired goals and be satisfied with your performance as a trainer.

Therefore, catch your clients at their current status with the digital office and guide them with a clearly communicated structure to their learning goal! With this approach, you significantly increase the productivity of your meetings. Additionally, you save time that you can invest better elsewhere. After all, your course participant should consider beforehand what the desired goal is or what challenges they are facing.

But with the digital office, you not only establish transparent framework conditions for collaboration. Ask yourself: How many trainers do you know who provide their clients with added value even before the first meeting? Probably only a few. Therefore, give your course participants another reason to book digital training with you instead of the competition. Because you stand out from other training experts by providing additional online preparation and follow-up!

The Most Important Advantages at a Glance:

• You offer your course participants added value even before the first meeting

• You distinguish yourself through online pre- and post-preparation of your meetings from the competition

• Your course participants are aware of their current status and their desired goals

• Your course participants have a clear overview and do not feel “lost”

• As a result, collaboration is results-oriented

• With transparency, arising problems can be recognized and solved more quickly

• Through regular content, the topic remains present for the participants

You see: The digital office is much more than traditional online support. It offers you and your participants many possibilities to plan educational content appropriately for the presence. This way, you utilize your live appointments even more efficiently.

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