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25 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

Are you facilitating workshops, meetings or training sessions regularly? Do you sometimes feel that the good old pen and paper or the MS Office toolkit combined with email leaves you struggling to stay on top of managing your workshop preparations and delivery? Fortunately there are plenty of online tools to make your life easier when…

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7 Things to Consider When Choosing a Design Sprint Venue

This article was originally published at VoltageControl.co by Douglas Ferguson. Where you hold your Sprint is critical. Whether you are running a Design Sprint, Innovation Workshop, Visioning Session, or another type of workshop, your venue or space is part of the event’s success. When planning your next workshop, I recommend that you consider these seven things. 1. Location…

Essential Facilitation Skills for an Effective Facilitator

Meetings are great opportunities to innovate, solve problems and make decisions with the collective intelligence of a group. On the other hand, meetings are also a frequent source of frustration and many people simply prefer to avoid meetings to protect their productive working hours. This is where facilitation comes into the picture - the art…

How to design introvert-friendly workshops without frustrating extroverts?

Do you Talk to Think or do you Think to Talk? If we believe the statistics, roughly half of us belong to the first group and we tend to call them “extroverts”.[1] The other group, so-called “introverts” usually keep their thoughts to themselves until they have something valuable to say. In the business context, where…

Find The Right Room Setup For An Engaging and Successful Event

Engagement and Participation, two big words that every facilitator, event organizer and meeting professional keeps in mind and set as a goal when organizing meetings, training sessions or conferences. Room arrangement plays a big role in making this goal happen. Room setup is the seating arrangement of participants or the placement by which they receive…

New feature: Breakout sessions / Parallel tracks

We are glad to bring you news about one of the most often mentioned feature request for SessionLab. Breakout sessions a.k.a. parallel tracks! If you are planning a session and you want to split up your agenda into multiple tracks, you can now create parallel tracks by adding a breakout session block. Breakout session blocks…

12 Effective Leadership Activities and Games

More and more people are asked to lead teams nowadays in the workplace, yet the path to becoming a good leader is a long one. Practical leadership activities are a great benefit toward that path, whether you perform them yourself with your own team or with an external facilitator. Leaders have both a big influence…

Train-the-Trainer Course – A Complete Design Guide

This guide will show you the behind-the-scenes design of a train-the-trainer course. Have you been wondering about: Why create a train-the-trainer program at your organisation? How to design a train-the-trainer course? What are the essential ingredients of a train-the-trainer course? With this comprehensive post, we'd like to support you on your path to designing a…

Public Library of Workshop Templates in SessionLab

Have you been looking for some inspiration for your next session, be it a design sprint, a team development day or an innovation workshop? Or an easy way to share your best SessionLab session plan with your colleagues? We are glad to announce the latest developments in SessionLab: a public library of complete workshop templates,…

5 Great Toolkits of Facilitation Techniques

Facilitation is going to be a key component of work in the future as employers and society will be faced with bigger and more complex problems and ideas. Facilitators will be needed, and you can already start improving your facilitation skills by collecting or mastering the methods you already use. What you will need are…

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Free Online Resources for Soft Skills Training Materials (2019 update)

What are the best free online resources for soft skills training materials? We are going to help you to answer this question below! As a trainer, educator or facilitator, you have probably experienced that good icebreakers, exercises, and energiser games are essential for an engaging and effective soft skills training. It takes careful consideration to…

15 Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

Have you heard of Design Thinking? Chances are you have. It is one of the hottest buzzwords of today, easily found in articles and in the news. The education and business fields are going crazy over it, books are written about it, and service designers, creative agencies, career coaches, trainers and facilitators are using it.…

15 Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

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Top 10 Free Online Resources for Workshop Activities (2019)

Meetings and workshops are a significant part of work for most of us. Whether they end up being useful or a waste of time depends a lot on how they are designed. A diversity of workshop activities and balanced mix of group facilitation techniques are essential for any facilitated session, be it a strategic workshop,…

Gamestorming methods now in SessionLab library!

Imagine that you have been asked to lead the next meeting of your team. You know that you have one hour to help the team agree on the project’s next steps. However the last three meetings were painful, ineffective and the team did not decide on anything. So what do you do? Business meetings are…

25 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

7 Things to Consider When Choosing a Design Sprint Venue

Essential Facilitation Skills for an Effective Facilitator

How to design introvert-friendly workshops without frustrating extroverts?

Find The Right Room Setup For An Engaging and Successful Event

Desing effective workshop, meeting or training

New feature: Breakout sessions / Parallel tracks

12 Effective Leadership Activities and Games

Train-the-Trainer Course – A Complete Design Guide

Public Library of Workshop Templates in SessionLab

5 Great Toolkits of Facilitation Techniques

Free Online Resources for Soft Skills Training Materials (2019 update)

15 Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

15 Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

Top 10 Free Online Resources for Workshop Activities (2019)

Gamestorming methods now in SessionLab library!