The Corona virus is spreading: Many companies and participants are therefore canceling training measures. A financial blow for trainers, coaches, and HR managers. Here you will learn how trainings and workshops can still take place:

Due to the rapidly increasing infection rates of the Corona virus, we should minimize social contacts as much as possible for now. Not only cultural and recreational events are being canceled – training measures are also being postponed or even completely canceled for the time being. Conducting in-person training is currently difficult. Trainers and coaches are complaining about canceled orders and fear significant financial losses in the coming weeks. For companies, this is no small matter either: HR managers are burdened with travel costs, hotel, and room bookings, even for replacement dates.

So how can trainers, coaches, and companies bridge this time and conduct training – without in-person events?

Solutions for Coaching

Individual coaching, for example for executives, can be shifted from in-person to a digital one-on-one room and conducted online effortlessly. You have various options available, such as video chat programs or simple phone calls. We have summarized all formats for online coaching for you in this article: 5 Formats for Online Coaching

In addition to synchronous agreements, you can offer your coachees additional online impulses in the style of "Blended Coaching". In the current situation, you can simply replace the necessary in-person appointments with the aforementioned video or phone coaching.

Solutions for Training

Training in small groups can also be conducted online without any problems. For this purpose, video chat programs and digital meeting rooms are also suitable, for example with ZOOM. This way, you can also facilitate valuable discussion rounds and small group exercises online.

Additionally, you can offer online courses here as well, in which your participants receive learning materials, exercises, short learning impulses, or learning videos from you. Many contents you likely already have saved digitally as a trainer: PDFs, exciting videos, or graphics. You can convert these into an online course in just a few minutes. Below you can see how a simple small course with these contents might look:

Completely without in-person presence: With PDFs, presentations, and videos, you can create and conduct digital training and workshops completely online in just a few minutes.

Solutions for Workshops

Workshops with large groups, such as compliance or product training, are best represented directly in an online course and conducted. Such content is standardized for all employees in most companies anyway – so you can conduct your training digitally without loss of quality.

Your materials as a trainer or HR developer are probably largely already available digitally for this as well. The implementation into course content is often done quickly, allowing you to conduct your training online swiftly. One example:

If you normally show a PowerPoint presentation in an in-person training? Then upload your presentation to an online course. Or create individual learning contents from the slides by taking screenshots and adding additional information in the course. Even self-recorded videos enhance the learning effect in the online course and can be created in just a few minutes. Conducting a training online is not necessarily associated with more effort.

Reading Tip: How to create effective learning videos in just a few minutes and without expensive technical equipment can be found on our comprehensive information page: "Creating Videos for Online Courses"

Another super simple solution that we often use in the blink.it team are screencasts: Record your screen, for example with CAMTASIA or Screencastify. At the same time, you speak appropriate "live explanations" over a headset or the microphone of your laptop – you are basically conducting your training for an invisible audience.

You then upload the finished recording to an online course, best split into several short videos. This way, employees can watch the training in the office or home office at their leisure. It's important that you also provide the opportunity for questions in the course, for example through a comment function or questionnaires. This way, it feels almost as if you are conducting the training live.

Important: The courses and videos don’t have to be perfect! In the current situation, it's more important that you react quickly and create content with minimal effort so that your planned trainings, coaching, or workshops do not have to be completely canceled! Offer a quick alternative instead of slow perfectionism!

React Quickly with blink.it and Conduct Training Online

If you want to start with online courses as soon as possible, book a free demo for the easy blink.it learning platform directly: Even without technical prior knowledge, you can create content in just a few minutes. And that's what it's all about! Start now to conduct your trainings completely digitally.

By the way: We at blink.it will not be affected! In an emergency, our entire team works remotely and can support you at any time! 🙂