It goes without saying that recent times have been extremely testing, international lockdowns, social distancing and a host of other measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. So, the question for our training team was, “how do we to continue to provide immersive and interactive training when we can’t do it face to face?”. The obvious answer is presentations on a webinar, but we’ve all sat through presentations in the death by PowerPoint format, and that’s just not how we do our training and so we weren’t going to take a backwards step now. Instead, we picked three key topics concerning travel safety and wove them into an overall scenario.
Each of our instructors then led on their key area of expertise and immersed the attendees in the type of situation that one might face when travelling.
The instructors were able to explore attendees’ answers, field questions and advise on best practice. We even managed to cover a lifesaving first aid lesson using the type of items that could easily be found at home!
For us this was a first and whilst I was sceptical at first to the idea of any type of “practical” webinar training I’m pleased to say that I was proven wrong. Judging by the feedback the webinar was a huge success. I’d like to say a big thank you to all those that participated, but especially to our instructors. With their imagination and enthusiasm, we were able to develop and deliver the next best thing after Hostile Environment Awareness Training. The route is now proven so look forward to more innovative and fun travel safety training from us soon!