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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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We Facilitate: Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable – an interview with Martin Gilbraith, freelance facilitator

Facilitation can sometimes be a lonely profession. Whether you are a freelancer or part of an in-house team, you will often be one of only a few people practicing facilitation and who truly appreciates the value of facilitation techniques. As Martin Gilbraith, a facilitator with over 30 years of experience noted in our interview: “the…

We Facilitate: 20 facilitation tips to help you be a better facilitator with insight from Martin Gilbraith

Being a great facilitator is all about listening, learning and growing so that you can guide others towards achieving their goals. But how to get started as a facilitator, and what resources are there to help you improve your facilitation techniques? In a series of interviews, we are speaking to expert facilitators and thinkers about…

How to always be a prepared facilitator – with workshop ideas in your pocket

Running effective meetings takes lots of preparation. When planning a workshop agenda, it’s easy to worry that you’ll run out of ice breaker activities or be unprepared should you suddenly need to take your agenda in a different direction during your session. Nadja Petranovskaja knows this all too well. Having originally trained as a psychologist,…

How to have a more productive team meeting (that staff and managers will love)

The team meeting. A necessary evil, an exercise in wasting time, or your organization’s secret weapon? At it’s best, a team meeting is a way to ensure your staff and management teams are aligned, that no obstacles stand in the way of company progress, and to create an open forum for dialogue and discussion. At…

What is an Agile coach and how do I become one?

Have you ever felt lost in a conversation because people were talking about a topic with such confidence and jargon that you were afraid to ask for clarification? This is how many people first encounter Agile coaching and development concepts and it can be a little overwhelming! This post was created as a roadmap for…

25 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

45 Ice Breaker Games [That Your Team Won’t Find Cheesy]

We all know how important personal interaction and tight bonds are in our lives. As much as this is true in family and friends circles, it is also crucial in work teams. Personal interaction is the foundation on which happiness and successful results are built. An in-depth study from TINYpulse, an employee engagement company, studied…

20 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 Brilliant Large Group Games and Workshop Activities

If you are running a workshop or training session you probably have your favourite exercises that prove to be effective over and over again, and they work well when you have a regular group size of 10 to 25 people. But what if you need to run a session where you have much more participants?…

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…

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 (With Examples)

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 train-the-trainer workshop.…

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…

25 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

We Facilitate: Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable – an interview with Martin Gilbraith, freelance facilitator

We Facilitate: 20 facilitation tips to help you be a better facilitator with insight from Martin Gilbraith

How to always be a prepared facilitator – with workshop ideas in your pocket

How to have a more productive team meeting (that staff and managers will love)

Desing effective workshop, meeting or training

What is an Agile coach and how do I become one?

25 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

45 Ice Breaker Games [That Your Team Won’t Find Cheesy]

20 Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

15 Brilliant Large Group Games and Workshop Activities

7 Things to Consider When Choosing a Design Sprint Venue

Essential Facilitation Skills for an Effective Facilitator

12 Effective Leadership Activities and Games

Train-the-Trainer Course – A Complete Design Guide (With Examples)

5 Great Toolkits of Facilitation Techniques