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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…

Free online tools for workshops and meetings

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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…

10 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. Leaders have both a big influence and responsibility for their teams. To mention some of the aspects, they need to pay attention to: Set the climate of a workplace Inspire…

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 Trainers (2018 update)

Hi there! Let me just quickly introduce what this post is about: free online resources for trainers (you). As a trainer, educator, facilitator or interested reader, you might know that good icebreakers, exercises, and energisers are essential for an engaging and effective soft skills training. It takes careful consideration to choose the right activities for…

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.…

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5 Tips To Engage your Audience During Workshops

Engaging your audience is a tough job. Nowadays, it is even tougher when our capacity for attention is lower than a goldfish’s. The digital noise around us is so high only the extremities get through. Most of us have gotten used to this “new normal”, and we expect so much more from an article, a…

3 Ways to Give Effective Feedback Everytime

When was the last time you felt you learned something from feedback on your performance? Or that you got useful, workable suggestions? Or that the feedback was actually more like a conversation than your superior just listing all the things you’ve done wrong? Even when feedback is mostly constructive and positive it can be stressful…

Psychological Safety: The key to high-performing teams

What are the ingredients of a perfect team? Do teams perform better if they socialize outside of work? Do individual educational backgrounds affect a team’s success? Do strong-handed managers make teams more effective? These are just some of the questions Google’s researches asked when they embarked upon a journey to find out how to build…

5 Reasons Why Team Building is Crucial (With Team Building Activities!)

In our last post about groups and teams we looked at the differences between the two notions and listed seven points that need to be fulfilled in order to form a team from a group. In this post we explore further the formation of teams with a focus on team building - a popular, though…

5 Brilliant TED talks on Team Building

There are plenty of books and studies on how to form teams from groups, which parts of team development are crucial, and how to assemble high-performing teams. However, in our busy world it becomes harder and harder to squeeze in time to sit down, open a book and read. Normally, when faced with a problem…

Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

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Top 10 free online resources for workshop activities (2018)

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 interaction are essential for any facilitated session, be it a strategic workshop, a team…

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

Train-the-Trainer Course – A Complete Design Guide

10 Effective Leadership Activities and Games

Public Library of Workshop Templates in SessionLab

5 Great Toolkits of Facilitation Techniques

Desing effective workshop, meeting or training

Free Online Resources for Trainers (2018 update)

Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

5 Tips To Engage your Audience During Workshops

3 Ways to Give Effective Feedback Everytime

Psychological Safety: The key to high-performing teams

5 Reasons Why Team Building is Crucial (With Team Building Activities!)

5 Brilliant TED talks on Team Building

Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

Top 10 free online resources for workshop activities (2018)

Gamestorming methods now in SessionLab library!