What are specific examples of serious games for online trainings? What are good check-ins, energizers and "main dish" serious games?

All games have been tested in their digital version by us and we definitely recommend them. 

• • 1) Great Check-in game: show a picture about // emojii check-in / check-out (a small step for them)
  • Marius' Check-in Game: Draw a battery on the whiteboard & let all participants draw a line into the battery indicating how much energy they have today / right now / this morning. 
  • As a "respectable" game to transport a topic / learning: Consider the "Change Game"
    • Step 1) Tell all participants to turn their camera off
    • Step 2) Give them ~20 sec. to change "something (up to 3 aspects) in your scene / about your appearance"
    • Have them turn their camera on: Ask the group: “What changes can you spot with the others?
    • After two or three rounds, some learners will notice how they find it harder to introduce change, some find it easier.
    • Debrief with emotional questions or other question types you will find in Julian's free "debriefing cube" (Link below)
    • A good final question for the change game: ”What happened to the changes!” → sustainability
      
      

“Is there a story when things went wrong in your online facilitation? 

• • Watch out for performance ceilings
  • Check the performance from the participants side (Is there one person representing a “bottleneck”)
  • never overload your electronic board (such as mural.co, miro.com or klaxoon.com)
  • Keep learner's bandwidth limitations in mind

Golden nugget: What is the one thing most online-facilitators are not aware of ?

• • Checking for understanding is harder online:
    • I will answer 2 questions before we start. (Before we start primes them.) Who wants to ask me one of two questions now?
    • Do you have the instructions downloaded to your machine?
    • Use some equialent to J Millers “Bat Signal” on the common board

Links for our listeners

http://SeriousGamesPodcast.com

Tools for our listeners

http://TheDebriefingCube.com

What's the difference between online vs offline facilitation? How can we make participants make feel safe psychologically in online-trainings? What are specific examples of serious games? 

Structure of what we said in this episode

1. Difference between serious games on- and offline
2. • Trust & psych safety
   • Mind the gap: be aware of the time lack (1 sec)
   • Allow participants to read you! Light, HD cam, zoom in!
   • You need energy to bring your message across
   • Lerners cannot touch or smell materials, artefacts, so get them to act, move and let them invest in the process, let them cocreate, tweak games which are not ideal for the online world
   • ⅓ of the games out there are not “eligible” for online facilitation
   • however, ⅓ of the games we have cannot be facilitated offline (in real life)Links for our listeners

Links & Tools for our listeners

http://TheDebriefingCube.com

http://SeriousGamesPodcast.com

Alex Dammann (our guest and training veteran) and Marius Jost (your host) answer the question: "What is Online Training really good for?" and: "What do you have to look out for when it comes to online trainings"

• What are differences between Online Trainings (including live online and asynchronous aspects) and brick-and-mortar sessions? 
• Is a real life training as effective as online training?
• What do lerners and clients report? Do they like online trainings or do they prefer the good ol' trainings in real life?
• What videoconferencing system would you recommend? Find our videoconferencing provider list down below in the Links section!
• Is ZOOM any good for online training?
• What about the GDPR? What systems can you use for your corporate trainings? The answer: use a provider from Europe - you ll find it in our table!
• What's critical when I am preparing for my talent development measure or when I design my online seminar?
• Finally, Alexander and Marius are adding crucial points that have a lot to do with the time before you even start your online seminar...

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