TelePrograms or Programs . . . what's the big difference?

Programs are traditional on-site workshops, trainings or similar education-oriented events.  Participants leave their offices or other location, gather together in one place with a facilitator, speaker or trainer who leads them through the partial-to-multi-day event.  Afterward, perhaps even excited about the new information, they return to their home locations and often find their "desks on fire" with stacked up work, calls to return, a backlog to address.  The valuable material they learned and brought back with them may never get picked up again, and is ultimately lost along with the training expenses that go down the drain. 

Sound familiar?

TelePrograms, on the other hand, are virtual events in which people can participate without the time or expense of travel, and that occur over a period of time or series of working sessions.  Materials are introduced or discussed in manageable portions on which actions can be taken between sessions.  The valuable information gained is applied in stages and can be 'tweaked' along the way, so the learning, a new strategy or an improved plan is actually implemented over time -- and productive change really occurs.  

Big difference!  Make sense?!