Would you like to shape the cooperation with your course participants as efficiently and purposefully as possible? Then create an online course where you share all the important information and framework conditions. This way, you create the perfect basis 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 meet your course participants at their current status and clarify the framework conditions for your collaboration. For example, you can do this with the help of an online course that can be used 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 employees in a secretariat.

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Efficient Collaboration Even Before the First Meeting

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

Sample Course for the Digital Office // blink.it

To shape the cooperation with your course participants as purposefully as possible, you should clarify at the beginning:

• 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

In addition, you should establish in the digital office how communication will proceed, which tools will be used, and what your joint working method will be. To give you an insight into the digital office, we have created an exemplary structure of the online course:

This is How You Can 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 are not yet familiar with the blink.it platform, you can explain how blink.it works in this Blink. You can either record a screen capture or link to the blink.it explanatory video.

3. Organizational Aspects

In this chapter, you can create various Blinks about upcoming dates, Zoom links, or your contact details. This way, your course participants can access all important information with a click.

4. Goal of 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 consider 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

To work effectively with your course participant from the first meeting, you should clarify in advance where the participant currently stands and how the company 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 clearly indicates to your course participants which steps they have already completed. This way, you provide the participants with a clear structure that they can orient themselves to.

7. Recordings of Your Live Sessions

Record the live sessions and then upload them in the digital office. This way, all participants can reflect on the topics discussed!

Checklist: Is Everything Prepared? // blink.it

Goal of the Digital Office

Not only your course participants benefit from the online course "digital office." To ensure efficient collaboration, you as a course leader need to prepare for the meetings just as much as your participants do. After all, you want them to achieve their desired goals and be satisfied with your performance as a trainer.

Therefore, meet 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 greatly increase the productivity of your meetings. Additionally, you save time that you can invest better elsewhere. After all, your course participant should think in advance about what their desired goal is or what challenges they are facing.

However, 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 not many. Provide your course participants with another reason to book their digital training with you instead of with the competition. Because you distinguish yourself from other training experts through complementary online preparation and follow-up!

The Most Important Advantages at a Glance:

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

• You differentiate yourself from the competition through online preparation and follow-up of your meetings

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

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

• This makes the collaboration outcome-oriented

• Through transparency, any problems that arise can be identified and resolved more quickly

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

You see: The digital office is much more than classical online support. It offers you and your participants many possibilities to plan learning content suitably for in-person meetings. This way, you use your live appointments even more efficiently.