Lachandra Baker is the director of Employee Engagement at a health care company. During the third week of COVID in March, 2020, she was tasked with moving a full 2-day live onboarding into a virtual one with only a week to plan. In this interview with Ruth Milligan, hosted a week after LaChandra completed this heroic task, she discusses how they managed to be true to their culture true as 20 new associates worked to navigate their way into the business and new careers - without being in person.

00:07 Chapter 1: The Nuts and Bolts of taking the event virtual

05:11 Chapter 2: Keeping the company culture in a virtual event

08:50 Chapter 3: Innovation is key

14:30 Chapter 4: Setting Expectations for the event

16:04 Chapter 5: Sparking Fun before event

Anne Blum is a 20-year instructional designer who has at least a decade of experience in designing virtual classes. In this episode she explains the foundations of how teachers (of all levels) need to rethink their lessons, timing student engagement strategies as they transition from live to virtual teaching. She is interviewed by Do Tell Virtually co-host Ruth Milligan.

00:09 – Chapter 1: Welcome Ann

01:22 - Chapter 2: Defining a modality

03:36 – Chapter 3: How do people process knowledge virtually?

06:26 – Chapter 4: Three concepts to incorporate into virtual learning.

07:54 – Chapter 5: Attention spans in virtual setting

09:43 – Chapter 6: Being Concise

11:30 – Chapter 7: Think about Laddering

13:30 – Chapter 8: WIIFM

14:03 – Chapter 9: Bad Learning Design: Don’t boil the ocean

14:59 – Chapter 10: The Wrap

In this learning series, expert speech communication coaches and trainers Ruth Milligan and Acacia Duncan reveal the new norms and rules for speaking, teaching, selling or training virtually. This episode introduces the series and the coaches.