I used to pride myself on how good I was at designing and delivering training.  What made it work well was that I avoided lecturing, used little or no Powerpoint, provided hands-on activities (card-sorting tasks and the like), interacted with the group, encouraged them to interact with each other, and spotted when someone was shy or sceptical or bored or tired and when they needed a change or a break or on the contrary were dazzled by my wit and wisdom.

Now I need to adapt to remote training, probably over Micorsoft Teams which we have been using fairly successfully for meetings.

Clearly I am not the first person to need to start thinking about this, so I wondered if anyone (particularly the professional trainers and those in the education sector) could give some tips or point to some helpful links?  Or is there a good online train the online trainer course?

...training aside I have been chairing HAZOPs for the past 3 months via Webex...and I think it is actually more efficient.. :)

Well, I've registered for an IOSH Mangazine webinar that sounds relevant:

https://www.workcast.com/register?cpak=2830455986826261

I have had go at this a few times and the issue I have is that if it is set up wrong, you don’t get any feedback from the delegates. If you are presenting to more than a few people, you can’t monitor what they are doing on video and if they are muted you find yourself in a situation where you feel like you are talking to yourself with no idea if anybody is listening to you. I find this disturbing and I have often to stop to reassure myself that there is somebody there. In fact there is something of the séance about it!  Some systems allow for the viewers to make comments but if you are in full flow you don’t really have time to stop and look at the written messages. It would help if you have an assistant to look at the messages and update you with what is going on. There are more sophisticated teaching packages available but I have not had a chance to use them yet, which might deal with this issue.

There is the opportunity to use a white board and apparantly you can set up rooms so people can do some group work on Teams and go to meeting. I have done a couple of resilience courses and it was OK but I think there were too many on the system so we couldnt have open mikes etc. I am getting my team to use Teams for small sessions with people and it is being well received. 

Bigmac- can I ask how you rate the content of the NCQR course- I had a few sign up from my workplace, if tose who I know completed it I was really surprised that one of them had clearly had not grasped the idea of recognising hazards- to their credit they realised they needed a little help and asked. We spents some time on it and they got there. A couple of others found the scenarios difficult and felt it would be better if you could discuss them.

One of the other is just a bit of a self opinonated idiot. Surprised they signed up as they already know everything. 

Update on my original posting saying I was on an e-course next Monday, well the company will not be teach the sylabus I thought I was signing up for, dispite the telephone call confirming they ran that particular course - Safety, Health and Environment for Construction Workers.  It turns out the staff thought the 'Green Card' sylabus was the same, when it's not. 

I've since had to cancel and post a new message to IOSH to fix the web portal from the CITB.