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Free online tools for workshops and meetings

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…

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…

Find The Right Room Setup For An Engaging and Successful Event (Guide with Examples)

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 - the placement by which they receive…

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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,…

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 (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.…