Webinars the way forward for learning in your comfort zone?

Emma Weber

I know it’s been a while!
I’ll be sending you a full update as to what I have been up to but meanwhile this comment from the Mailchimp blog caught my eye.

“At first glance “webinar” is a funny word. Webinar could easily be French for “deep philosophical pondering atop a spider’s web” or ancient Greek for “weapon fashioned from a webi”. But to the modern person, Homo Tecnologicus E-mailienci, webinars are a way of learning at 2 am while sipping on chamomile tea in their jammies. Specifically, it’s training that you would normally travel for, delivered directly to your comfort zone.”

For the Mailchimp approach take a look at this article.
Meantime love to hear what you think of webinars as a way to learn.

Emma Weber is a recognized authority on the transfer of learning. As CEO of Lever–Transfer of Learning, she has helped companies such as Telstra, Oracle and BMW deliver and measure tangible business results from learning. She has also been a guest speaker at learning effectiveness conferences worldwide and authored the hugely successful book “Turning Learning into Action“. Much more detail around the issues and solutions examined in this article are available in the book – please feel free to download a free chapter. Emma and her team also developed Coach M, a coaching chatbot that delivers fully scaleable learning transfer. She is also a co-author of the books Making Change Work, and Designing Virtual Learning for Application and Impact. Her work and approach is also featured in Data and Analytics for Instructional Designers by Megan Torrance (Author), Foundations of People Metrics and Analytics – by Renjini Joseph and an ATD 10-minute case study series – Chatbot Coaching for Learning Transfer.