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to learn more from webinars. Are you ready?
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I don't know if you've noticed this,
but webinars are everywhere.
You could probably spend time every single day taking a webinar
that would help
you reach one or more of your learning, personal and professional goals.
Like they're everywhere,
but I'm guessing you kind of have a love hate relationship with them.
Like, you love that there's access to them.
You have access to smart people that can help you learn stuff,
but you don't always love the results, right?
It's sometimes hard to get from the webinar.
What you'd hope to get.
And so what I want to do today is to help you think about ways you can get more
from the webinars you attend, whether you select them or have been told to go,
and not just webinars but any sort of virtual learning event.
They might be called something else.
But fundamentally we'll think about this as a webinar five Things
You Can Do to get more from them. Here we go first.
Choose wisely.
Any time there are a plethora of choices,
it's incumbent on us to pick wisely.
So my thought to you is make sure that you're picking titles that really do
hone in on things you are most interested in or will most help you right now.
Get very practical about the what topic
and perhaps what you can know about the presenter.
Now I give lots of webinars and hopefully if you've been on one of mine
you say, Hey, that was pretty good.
But what you want to do is find voices that that speak to you,
find webinar leaders that give you and feed
you the kinds of help and needs think things that you need.
Right? Second.
Attend live when you can.
I can tell you this every time we deliver a webinar, here's what we find.
People ask, Will this be recorded?
Or even on the live recording?
On the live event, people will say, Is this being recorded?
And we typically do record them and many do and many offer them to you,
which is great.
But here's what I know, both from my experience
as well as experience with others, and that is that when we don't attend
live, it just adds another thing in our inbox.
It has one more thing that we want to do.
We want to listen to.
We want to consume it, but we don't always get back to it.
Put it on your calendar and attend live in part
because then you've prioritized it more effectively.
And if you can attend live, it leads to the third point,
which is to participate like engage in what's going on.
If the webinar leader invites questions and comments, do that.
If they invite questions at the end, ask your questions.
If just engage with it, make your focus for that 45 or 60 minutes
being that learning from that webinar experience
participate and engage, which means number four,
stop multi tasking.
I know webinars over here.
My phone is right here.
I got to be I got an email, I'll just check that and I might miss something.
And you might say, Well, I'm not really missing anything.
Just a second.
Now, I could maybe argue that in the first three or 4 minutes of a webinar
that might be a little introduction, might be a little bit about the speaker,
maybe I can go with you on that.
But for the most part, put it all down, put it all away.
You've decided that this learning is important.
You believe that there's something valuable for you here, so stop
doing other stuff and give your full attention to the webinar
and then don't just sit back and consume.
Take action notes.
What do you mean by action notes?
I mean, don't just take notes on what they're saying,
but take notes on what you will do with what they're saying.
What are the ideas that you will apply?
Don't just think about it like school.
There's no test when the webinar is over.
The real test is can you do something differently?
Do you think about something differently?
Do you have a new strategy that you can apply?
That's what you take your notes on.
When you take action notes by because you've participated
and because you've stopped multitasking so that you can be
focused on your learning, You get a way better chance
of getting far more from that webinar or that interactive learning session.
Let me close with today's tweet.
Webinars can be great learning opportunities, but only if you engage,
participate and take notes on how you apply what you've learned.
Well, webinars are something I mentioned that we do regularly
and we'd certainly love for you to take advantage of our webinars in the future.
But right now we're getting ready to do something that you might call well,
Super webinar.
It's a two day event that we call Virtual Leader Con, and you can learn more
by clicking the button or by going to virtual leader contact.
Com on September 20th and 21st of 2023.
We'll be hosting this two day event where I will have 12 thought leaders join me
over the course of those two days talking about important topics for us as leaders.
Now you can attend any or all of it for free and you can apply the ideas
we just talked about here in each of those sessions.
In fact, I promise that these sessions during Virtual Leader Con
are absolutely interactive and we're encouraging you and giving you
lots of reasons why and chances to participate.
It's a great chance for you to apply the stuff you just learned here
and to gain some great skills for your future Virtual Leader Comic-Con.
And if you missed the live date, you can learn more about what happened
and how to get access to all of that content as well.
Hope you'll do all that and I hope you'll come back next week
for another episode of Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership Podcast.