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Jennifer Hofmann

Jennifer Hofmann, virtual classroom, and blended learning visionary is founder and president of InSync Training, LLC. InSync is a global virtual consulting firm specializing in the design and delivery of engaging, innovative, and effective virtual learning. The company is a leader in the L&D industry in world-class virtual design, facilitation, and production. InSync delivers services using a proprietary virtual learning and engagement model called the InQuire Engagement Framework® which uses brain science best practices to ignite and sustain learner engagement. Under Jennifer’s expert leadership, Inc. 500|5000 named InSync training the 10th Fastest Growing Education Company in the U.S. in 2013, the 20th Fastest Growing Education Company in 2014, and to their Inc. 5000 list for four consecutive years. Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, Forbes Most Powerful Women Issue, The NativeAdVantage, and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program have all recognized her entrepreneurial drive. Jennifer has written, and contributed to, a number of well-received and highly-regarded books including: The Synchronous Trainer’s Survival Guide: Facilitating Successful Live Online Courses, Meetings, and Events, Live and Online!: Tips, Techniques, and Ready to Use Activities for the Virtual Classroom, and Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend That Fits with Dr. Nanette Miner. Her latest book, Blended Learning ,introduces a new instructional design model that addresses the needs of the modern workplace and modern learners. Jennifer frequently presents in-person and online for leading learning organizations including The Learning Guild, Training Industry, HR.com, and Training Mag Network. She serves on the Board of Directors for International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), supporting the accreditation InSync has maintained since 2008.

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Virtual Classroom Facilitation Techniques: From Good to EXCEPTIONAL

If you are a good virtual facilitator (and after the year we have all had, I bet you are!), you have quite a few enviable skills! You’ve mastered the basics of how to teach virtually and have mastered your virtual classroom platform. (Webex®...

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Scenario Based Learning & The Virtual Classroom

The pandemic, among many of its impacts on the learning and development community, mandated a rapid shift to virtual live learning. The past year’s...

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4 Steps to Prepare For And Survive Virtual Classroom Tech “Disasters”

When facilitating a virtual event, the facilitator has three jobs: Foster environmental engagement by creating a place where people can and want to...

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Going Global: The Winning Formula for Virtual Training Across the Enterprise

Once the COVID pandemic shut down offices and quarantined us in our homes, virtual training exploded overnight. According to Forbes.com, the...

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Why Go Live? Accountability & Shared Purpose in the Virtual Classroom

It’s 7:30 AM on a Monday morning. I’m logged in to a Zoom call with 22 strangers. A scattering of novelists. A few bloggers. Two high school students...

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Throw it in Zoom and See if it Sticks! (Part 2)

In my previous post, I discussed the importance of strong design for virtual delivery, and how to achieve it. This post addresses the challenges...

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Throw it in Zoom and See if it Sticks! (Part 1)

2020 was a year that witnessed a myriad of changes in the workplace, society, and how we interact, work, play, and…live. In the world of learning and...

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Virtual First - A Lasting Outcome of the 2020 Pandemic

Welcome to 2021. It seems that everyone is taking a collective breath as we look forward with expectation of promise and insight in a new workplace...

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COVID 19 Has Changed The Way We Use Virtual Classrooms

What are the Long Term Effects? I remember January. Traditionally, January and February are the slowest months at InSync Training. Organizations tend...

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Lesson Learned: Virtual Classroom Producers Can Maximize Training Value

In 1998, I envisioned that the role of the producer in the virtual classroom would be to “make the talent look good.” My reasoning was, the virtual...

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