How to Use Paper and Pencil Activities To Rev up your Teleclasses and Teleseminars

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How to Use Paper and Pencil Activities To Rev up your Teleclasses and Teleseminars. C 2005 Julie Jordan Scott

Hosting a Teleseminar soon?

Here is a suggestion to keep your participants Engaged and the a-ha's flowing.

Your new Strategy: Think outside the "Telephone Box."

Some learners need visuals, they need metaphors, they need images.

But wait, you think - this is a program which is taught over the Telephone, I can't do that!

Or can you?

Think of something seemingly unrelated to your topic and look at it from a slightly different perspective.

Here is an example I use in one of my very successful teleclasses.

First, tune into touchstones, which I define like this -

A Touchstone is an intentionally placed marker which draws the participant into the activity, making the participant an active participant in the session through creating a connection with him or her. This is what causes the learner to nod in understanding as he or she participates silently.

It is the bridge which spans you and your participants and when effective, will serve as the place where you will meet "face to face" and bring him or her alongside you for the remainder of the session

Consider: What is something everyone "gets". a universal.

Examples:

Crowded airport at the holiday season

Favored restaurants, singers, holidays, vacation destination, think of some of your own

Being left out of a social situation - or being left out of ANYTHING (the last one chosen for a team, not getting the job or the girl or. you name it).

Receiving a surprise gift...

Place your chosen Touchstone Metaphor in the middle of a clean sheet of paper and then bubble related information around it.

Guide conversation around what they learned/saw/witnessed from metaphor and (very important) "So in what way does this relate to (content of class)?

One of the metaphors I use in my "How to Lead Teleclasses that Changes Lives" is about the ways we are engaged at our favorite restaurants.

Participants discover not only what makes them enjoy their favorite dining establishment, they also see what they enjoy out of almost ALL social AND learning experiences.

An added benefit in teleclasses is that the participants get to know each other on a completely different level. Also - when folks are listening to your recordings (those, for example, who were not able to be present on the call itself) can still participate fully by creating their own paper-pencil "favorite restaurant sketch". It lets them feel like a member of the Teleclass community instead of a "sole student".

Everyone may then use their sketch as a template to create pleasing teleclasses themselves.

Simple? Yes.

Different? Yes.

Engaging? Yes.

You will set yourself apart as a Teleclass Or Teleseminar leader through using this Simple technique.

Don't bore your students with "yakkety- Yakkety-yakkety" - get them involved with a variety of activities and exercises.

==== Since 1999, Julie Jordan Scott has been leading Teleclasses And Teleseminars for thousands of people across the globe. Learn the Method behind the Magic Now: Discover How to Lead Teleclasses and Teleseminars that Change Lives: www.5passions.com/teleclasshowto.html

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