Kassy LaBorie - Interact and Engage!: 75+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

Captivate your online participants from start to finish. Interact and Engage! offers stimulating starters and clever closers with amazing activities in between to meet your every need.

Elaine Biech, 2022 ISA Thought Leader; Author, ATDs Handbook for Training and Talent Development; Principal Author, Talent Development Body of Knowledge

When you need a great idea to liven up a virtual meeting or training session (and who doesnt need that constantly today), this is the book for you! Kassy LaBorie and Tom Stone have created a masterful cornucopia of great exercises.

John Boudreau, PhD, Senior Research Associate and Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California

We arent using virtual meetings and virtual training to make the best of a bad situation anymore. This is the way we work and were not going back. Interact and Engage! is filled with practical tools and ideas trainers and meeting managers can use right now to create great virtual experiences.

John Con, Principal, the 11th Hour Group

A book like this can only come from years and years of experience. Interact and Engage! is an amazing compendium of training activities that readers can copy, tweak, and put into practice. I circled so many ideas that I will proudly use in my next virtual presentation. My hat is off to Kassy and Tom! Bravo!

Beverly Kaye, Author, Speaker, Thought Leader, 2018 ATD Lifetime Achievement Award

Interact and Engage! is the rare book that is always within an arms reach of my desk. I reference it often for ideas and inspiration for how to keep the online events I host feeling fresh, and to ensure the attendees of those events are getting the best learning experience possible.

David Kelly, CEO, The Learning Guild

A month before the global pandemic changed our world and the learning profession forever, Kassy LaBorie brought the ideas of Interact and Engage! directly to our learning team. The new skills helped us pivot from nearly 100 percent in-person, instructor-led to 100 percent virtual classroom learning in less than three months. The expertise Kassy and Tom shared equipped our team to have a rapid, positive, and long-lasting impact on our learners and our company.

Steve King, Vice President, Rich Talent Center, Rich Products Corporation

I love what this second edition brings! Just when Zoom fatigue is gripping us all, this second edition brings fresh new ideas for us to make our virtual sessions more engaging, more effective, and, most importantly, more relevant for the audiences we are all trying to connect with through our screens.

Rob Lauber, CEO and Founder, XLO Global; Former CLO, McDonalds

Facilitation is the skill and art of making engagement happen. Virtual meetings, sessions, and learning activities soar when we design and leverage facilitation to maximize the experience of participants. This new edition of Interact and Engage! presents a powerful set of activities that will supercharge the energy and impact of virtual gatherings. A must read!

Elliott Masie, Chair, Masie Learning Foundation

The biggest mistake virtual instructors make is assuming that the engagement skills they use in the classroom transfer to online. Interact and Engage! provides an amazing reference of easy-to-use and well-tested methods to master the hardest skill in teaching: engagement! Its a must for every virtual instructor.

Bob Mosher, CEO and Chief Learning Evangelist, APPLY Synergies

If you want virtual delivery to deliver results, begin by designing your events with the tools and activities in this book. Kassy and Tom have once again given us a gift of clear, specific instructions on how to engage audiences in an environment where disengagement is so easy.

Patti P. Phillips, CEO, ROI Institute

Interact and Engage! has a permanent spot on my desk. Its my go-to resource when I am looking for ways to get the most out of a virtual meeting through activities that are easy to execute and create an inclusive environment for collaboration.

Humera Malik Shahid, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer and VP, Talent Development, Intuit

This second edition of Interact and Engage! is the ultimate guide to designing and delivering virtual sessions. Kassy and Tom cover the latest technologies and scenariosa must read and must apply for anyone who designs and facilitates virtual meetings and training.

Brenda Sugrue, Global Chief Learning Officer, EY

Were all being asked to up our game in the virtual learning space and the new edition of Interact and Engage! arrives just at the right time. Drawing from their extensive experience in the professional development field, Kassy and Tom give us an insightful, pragmatic, and proven resource to help meet the challenge. This book is now my go-to reference when designing or refreshing virtual learning events. I encourage others to pick up a copy and keep it close.

Kevin D. Wilde, Executive Leadership Fellow, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; Former CLO, General Mills

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