Delivery Matters

Stories behind workshop plans,
sticky notes and markers.

Author: SessionLab

Update from the SessionLab Team

At SessionLab, we believe in the power of facilitation and dialogue to create meaningful change and cooperation. Whether working together in small groups or on the global stage, we believe that peaceful collaboration is the only way forward. We have been deeply saddened by recent events and we stand wholeheartedly with the people of Ukraine in our wish for an immediate end to hostilities and for peace to be restored. We are against violence in any form and our hearts go out to all those affected by this conflict. As a company, our first priority has been to support and care for team members who have been impacted. We will…

Four-dimensional facilitation techniques

This is a guest post by Gwendolyn Kolfschoten. Gwendolyn is an expert on collaboration, facilitation and group processes. As a researcher at Delft University of Technology, department of Technology Policy and Management, she studied collaboration processes for a decade. She was also a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the Engineering Systems Division. She has published many academic articles on collaboration and on tools and technologies to support group work, among them four dimensional framework about developing facilitation techniques that this post is about. Currently, Gwendolyn is the founder a company dedicated to supporting effective collaboration and the author of the book Effective Collaboration. Like a real…

Team Canvas – Get your team on the same page

This is a guest post by Alex Ivanov. Alex and his team developed a simple-to-use and very visual framework called Team Canvas for teambuilding and team alignment that is available freely to anyone under Creative Commons licence. We are grateful to Alex for having shared this great tool with the facilitators’ community, and also glad to announce that you can find Team Canvas resources on SessionLab both in the library and as a Featured Session - so you can seamlessly integrate it in your next session plan if you decide to do so. On average, only 46 out of 100 workgroups within organizations end up creating value for companies, and…

Trainers and coaches in the Netherlands: Share your digital tools and technologies used in training

Inspired by a recent blog post on lack of digital tools to support trainers and in our effort to promote sharing of practices and tips between trainers, we are organizing a first trainers’ meet up in the Netherlands. You can find below the description of the event and register on facebook or meetup.com. How can technology get you into the flow when preparing and delivering your training? How can you save time when managing your training? Technology brings plenty of opportunities for different professions, but what about the training field? Come, see and share your experience on how digital technologies can help trainers in their work. We would like to present some…

TrainedOn moved to Tallinn

We have been quiet for some time, but things are about to change. We recently moved to Tallinn as we got selected for a startup accelerator - Startup Wise Guys. Finally we are in one place and fully dedicated to work on TrainedOn in order to develop a valuable service for the training community. First two and a half weeks have passed by extremely fast mainly due to so much activities and energy. The greatest value of the accelerator for us is the network it provides. Starting with the mentors and investors that we meet, who guide us with the right questions, pieces of advice and play around with the…

Welcome to Delivery Matters!

Here you will find stories written by a team of young trainers with a common background in a youth organisation, who are passionate about education and lifelong learning. We are also excited about technology and we always try to see how it can help us in what we do. Over the years we have tried various tools in preparing our training content. We used mind maps for brainstorming and creating quick outlines, text documents for writing down specific procedures and spreadsheets for training schedules. These tools may be good enough for a specific task, but not for iterating them in an collaborative manner. And training preparation is exactly that, an…

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