How we turned an induction into an interactive webinar for Bosch

The challenge

The main challenge we faced was finding ways to keep the attention of the participants during the webinar by keeping the content interesting.

The existing PowerPoint slides included lots of small text which didn’t translate to online learning – the amount of words on screen would have caused the participants to disengage with the training.

Fearing that people would switch off and start looking at their mobile phones instead, we updated the wordy slides to feature eye-catching graphics with less text.

With traditional face-to-face training, there’s usually a presenter stood in front of the group to focus on, but with a webinar you only have the voice of the presenter talking and PowerPoint slides themselves.

So, we made sure that they included lots of graphics, bright colours and the slides were constantly changing. This strategy helped to maintain the attention of the user while also managing to get across the important messages.

Keeping participants engaged

We also made the webinar as interactive as possible and embraced the annotation function in Skype for Business to create a quiz where the participants can click on an answer to reveal the question.

This activity, along with others and videos, made the content engaging throughout.