Web conferencing (webinar services) is online training. Using web conferencing a company may conduct employee training. Learn about the benefits of virtual meetings and find out which program lets you use screen sharing.

Web conferencing saves employee time and company money. A company that holds virtual meetings using the CommFort program has an opportunity to conduct free webinars, at least without paying for using CommFort as a webinar host.

In addition to web conferencing, the CommFort program can be used with videoconferencing to conduct interviews, briefings, consultations, and workshops.

Corporate web conferencing and its benefits to the company

Here are the main advantages of virtual meetings over traditional offline seminars:

1. Simplified class coordination. The company no longer needs to designate an equipped room to host a webinar or to resolve issues of employee attendance from various offices at the webinar.

2. Financial savings. Webinar price only needs to reflect the instructor’s fee; after all, you can use an application that does not necessarily require a fee to host a webinar – the CommFort program, for example, which provides free webinars.

3. Employee training from any company office. Employees from different cities and even countries can attend virtual training: all you need to connect to a web conference is Internet access and a web camera. The head of the company can also connect to a virtual meeting to evaluate instructor performance and employee involvement in the training process.

Unlike a video lecture, which can be viewed as a recording, web conferencing presumes interaction between the students and the webinar instructor. By training interactively, employees will learn better; they will also be able to ask the instructor to go over certain aspects of the subject matter. Visual contact during a virtual meeting enables the instructor to gently adjust the class flow and the participants to work as active listeners. If CommFort is used as the webinar software the participants are able to see both the instructor and each other.

Advantages of hosting a webinar using the CommFort program

If the CommFort application is the corporate host for a webinar – there are additional benefits to the company.

1. Training efficiency. Using CommFort the instructor can show slides, illustrations, videos, his or her own screen, or exchange files with the students. Using the web camera, the webinar instructor can have completely interactive communications: answer questions live, evaluate webinar participants’ reaction and involvement, and receive immediate feedback.

2. Option to conduct free webinars. Some webinar software offer subscription fees, but the CommFort application has an option to host webinars without additional fees.

3. Training of unlimited number of employees. Usually virtual meetings assume training of key company experts. But even if there are several dozen of such professionals, or if it is the mid-level management that is trained in the webinar, everyone can participate in a web conference using the CommFort program. CommFort does not have a restriction on the number of participants in a video conference.