While training is usually conducted at training room, classroom environment, we have slowly seen popular platforms to conduct online training start to spring up over the years and have become extremely popular. Do you always have to learn at a classroom or training room and be physically present? Not necessarily so.

There are definitely pros to conducted courses online, and one of the main pros is that you are not restricted by geographical location and your course is able to reach a worldwide audience, unlike a training session whereby you need to conduct it at a particular venue.

Also, once your course is recorded and put up for sales via platforms like Coursera, Udemy, the student is able to view, play and replay the lessons at his own pace and learning speed. This is one of the greatest advantage that technology has brought to the learning space.  Basically, learning and knowledge has no boundaries in today’s age.

In this video, we would like to share an interesting video by one of the best Udemy instructors, John explaining how to make a successful video course using the Udemy platform. In addition to that, he also shares tips on marketing and promoting the video to potential audience and ultimately getting people to buy your program. Being an expert in this industry, his video has shared many pitfalls to avoid and tips to create and make your online course successful.

Below are his first few tips and do watch the entire video to learn how to create a powerful video course and demonstrate yourself as an expert in your field when doing so.

Tip One – Get your title right

When your title is right, it makes it easier for people to find your course and attract the right audience. If you do reply to queries, you do not wish to reply at whims to queries that are not actually looking for your product.

Hence, it is important that you know who you are creating your course for and always bear that in mind throughout your course creation process.

Tip Two – Answer your potential clients : What’s in it for me? 

Making sure your participants understand what’s in it for me when they manage to search for your course and they are crystal clear when they do sign up. This is the benefit that you need to show your potential clients and you want to do it right, to minimize the refund policy from being utilized, if any is in place.

Tip Three – Course Description

How do you sell your course? The trick is that you do it via the course description. You may ask how is the course description going to sell my course? Below are some tips:

•  Show some social proof, reviews, testimonials
• Prepare, research and address some objections that you think your participants might have and show them why and how it will work for them
• Give 30 days guarantee so that this will help to allay your potential clients’ fears
• Write short paragraphs with distinct headings, sub headings
• Try to avoid, in fact don’t use big long complex sentences. Write simply and clearly.

Optimize Lectures

In order to capture your audience attention and make sure they learn effectively, keep your per video or lecture between 3-5 minutes. This is the benefit of learning online unlike traditional classroom training whereby it must take place at large blocks of time.

There must be a clear objective for each lecture. Some good structure are introducing the topic to the participant / overview, then followed by teaching the materials and ending off the lesson with a summary. This has been said to have one of the methods that is able to achieve high knowledge retention rate.

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 Have you chosen the training room rental for upcoming seminar or workshop? Small business owners often search places fit for training, workshops and seminars. Businesses choose training rooms with multiple facilities based on the nature of their work.

So, what are the facilities you should look for in a training room? What factors should you consider while getting a training room for rent? These lines will show your how you can choose a feasible room that matches all your requirements.

5 Things to Consider in a Perfect Training Room

1. The Right Fit is The Best Option

Does the training room match the event you look forward to? Will it give the right impression to the participants? A good training room must have all the elements to inspire, energize and motivate the participants. These are the things you should be concerned about:

• Space, brightness, appeal and action
• Furniture and accessories, and their arrangement should match the theme of your event.

In short, the training venue must have every element to help you get the desired results.

2. Accessible Location

You cannot conduct a training session with an empty room. It is important that the training room rental is located where people can access easily, via private or public transport. Normally, businesses prefer to have training rooms in the middle of the city where people can reach easily. You can follow these tips:

• An ideal location for a training room could be city’s popular building, or it can be a popular place nearby.
• You must inform them about bus routes and subways leading to the location.
• The location must have a ample parking lots for the participants.
• Short walking distance to the MRT station is also important.

3. Basic Facilities

You can short list training rooms or seminar room rental providers that offer more facilities than others. Apart from the latest training equipment, the training premises should also have other facilities – toilets for male and female, proper air ventilation and emergency exits. Some of the facilities of modern training rooms include:

• Function suite
• Projection screens, multimedia and LCD TV
• Wi-Fi access
• Lights and fixtures

4. Cost and Expenses

Cost is an important factor to consider, particularly when you find cheaper options. Most of the time, cheap training rooms become expensive after adding up the extra costs of features. In such cases, the best thing is to enquire about the following necessities related to workshops and training:

• All-day tea/refreshments
• Lunch
• Audio/video and learning aids
• Other necessities

Professional training room operators always propose fixed prices to help you make quick decision.

5. Don’t Forget the Vendor

You can always build good working relationship with the person who helped you get the job done. He should be approachable, cooperative and friendly. If anything goes wrong, he’s the one responsible to provide alternatives. A good vendor or operator will do his best to provide an ideal training environment for training, workshops and seminars, so that you would come back to him with more business.

Although, these are the important things to consider while choosing a training room for rent, it’s equally important that you should prioritize them according to yours and your client’s requirements.

It is crystal clear that people want to save more and more money. Everyone is likely to purchase a product or service that will help him or her save more coins. There is a lot of advice on how people should save more money. There are all types of literature and media inclusive to guide people on saving. Booking a room for training can also have some opportunities to save some money. Therefore, this article will discuss to ten tips on how to save when booking a room for training. This is a must read article if you need to become an exceptional lecturer on the subject.

Book the room on off-season periods
It is advisable to book the seminar room during low seasons when the demand of rooms is off-peak. Most people prefer booking rooms during periods of special times of the year like Christmas and august holidays. Avoid those times of the year.

Use search engines
Whether you have training rooms around your area, do not guess the possibility that they may be cheap. It may work out cheaper if you can take time to use search engines like yahoo, Bing and Google for more information.

Consider alternative rooms
Take your time and compare the prices of available training rooms and maybe even hotel ballrooms. Some rooms are very costly yet the services provided are of the same quality compared to other cheaper rooms. Some hotels do package in their buffet lunch or dinner with their room package, it is worthwhile checking it out.

Book early
When you book training rooms first, you enjoy the benefits associated with pre-paid services. Most businesses use this technique to lure more customers and you should take the opportunity.

Subscribe in the mail list
Registering in the mail lists with websites providing such updates is exceptional. It can be mind boggling to receive those lots of texts but its good for you to have knowledge on the best prices offered for the rooms.

Know how much you want to pay
Some people book rooms without having any slightest idea of how much is going to cost them. On arrival the prices can be at peak and consequently suffer a great loss.

Use the 24- hour rule
This is a rule that is provided in many hotels and room owners. Check in the following day whether the prices have become a little cheaper. If yes, call the owner and cancel the booking without penalty and book your taste.

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Wanted to share this interesting and hilarious tip I read from a teacher’s manual. Here goes:

“When erasing a board, use vertical strokes: your strokes will show the least amount of movement. Horizontal strokes may make hips shake, which students may find humorous and thus distracting”

Credit: www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/10/24/a-tip-from-the-teacher-training-manual/

Hope you like the tip. I thought it might be really useful for trainers and teachers who did not realise it.

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Jay was punctual and was happy with the set up of the interview room and the facilities. She said that she was a regional  representative and looking to hire someone in Singapore as a coordinator between Singapore and the other offices. She was expecting about 20 candidates who applied for the role.

I asked her how would she know who is a suitable candidate and she shared some interview tips with me as follows:

Dressing
The candidate who turn up must have made effort in dressing up, not in a exaggerated manner but at least the bare minimum
of dressing properly and professionally and have made some effort.

Arriving on time
The candidate must not be late and those who turn up at least 20 minutes before will be good. Candidates who are late will
be be naturally be discounted from the role substantially.

Willingness
As an interviewer, the job is to find out the most willing candidate to do the role. many people have the incorrect
concept of hiring the best candidate among the rest, but a proper and better method is to find the best fit for the
role. Sometimes, hiring the most talented or experienced candidate may not be the best fit because he or she is not
willing.

Has the candidate prepared adequately for the interview or highlighted his achievements
The candidate should be concise and adequately illustrate his past achievements and be able to share how he can fit the role and bring value to the company.

Questions
The candidate should have done some research and able to ask some insightful questions about the role, company, for example, the values, mission etc. This shows his interest and has taken the time and effort to research about the role and company.

Above all, it is after all a gut feel and experience as to which is the right candidate for the role.

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Recently, we have a client (let’s name her as Jay (not her real name so as to keep confidential) who is stationed in Bangkok. She found out about our training room from our website and called us for inquiry. Hence, hearing her familiar friendly accent and subsequently understanding where she is from,. I thought that she may not be familiar with Singapore and as
I am also curious with the type of event she is intending to hold at our rooms. We took much time explaining to her about:

1. Our venue location which was very convenient, especially for a foreigner who is not familiar with Singapore
2. Our rates which are reasonably priced
3. The facilities that come along with the rental
4. The kind of set up for her event
5. Posted her some nice photos of a current event we had for a client

Interestingly, Jay is not at all interested with our facilities and interested to know 1) whether the location is convenient enough for her clients. This piqued my curiosity as most of my first time clients who rent our seminar room or training rooms would want to know what facilities comes along with the rental. This is the really the first rare encounter I had.

The only second question she has for me is whether we can clear the entire room for her i.e. clear all the tables and only leave one table and two chairs in the room. As this was going to be a quite tedious process, I had to confirm her required arrangement.

I asked her whether if she wanted a classroom seating arrangement, she said no. She then explained to me what she was going to hold a mass interview at our training room. She was representing her head office in Bangkok, and intends to interview a few candidates for a job position.

A MASS INTERVIEW
This was the first time we received such a unique request, and not wanting to disappoint her, we said yes to her event.  Of course, payment came promptly.

On the day of the rental, we prepared early by clearing the tables, and put in place the arrangement what our client requested. We also carefully vacuumed the carpet, cleared the bins, gave a few spurts of freshener and we wanted to make sure Jay will be comfortable upon arriving.

Not sure why, but this is not the first time a foreign client has rented our seminar or classrooms. However, there is this responsibility to make sure that we are hospitable towards our foreign clients whenever they book from us. As part of our service, we even gave her a call to make sure that she knows her way to our place. To be continued…