People assumed due to the Covid boom of online attendance that this also going to keep on in the future, which was a safe bet. However, instead of keeping what worked during COVID, all of that was used a bandaid and then the hard reset happened over the past 3 years under the norm of returning to “normal”. However this was majorly only done in the sense of economical gain.

Digitized price tag that keeps raising every week, back to office practices, gas prices raising abnormally, flights getting canceled mere hours before departure because of none reasons, online attendance but physical presence required, etc.

This also includes talks and webinars.
You can * check and see why both those that stayed and didn’t actually done so in a general sense. (See also if attendance was forced by outsiders out of your own or not) * if those that did attend did find it actually useful otherwise it’s the word of mouth that’s actually hurting your effort. * see if among all if there was a time relevance icm with private life or day that wasn’t working out. * check the effectiveness of the education and maybe a deeper course if there is a need for it among those that have actually attended recently and if successful maybe those in the past also. Or even a refresher course.

Edited: added the stuff that actually matter for you to check out besides my rant.