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Author: Robert Cserti

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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,…

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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 group facilitation techniques are essential for any facilitated session, be it a strategic workshop,…

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…

Multi-day agendas available in SessionLab

Ever since we released the first version of SessionLab, we received many requests to develop a better option to create multi-day agendas. It is a frequent scenario that a workshop or training session spans longer than a day, and previously the only option was to create two separate sessions for each day and then trying…

Introducing the new dashboard in SessionLab

Over the past months, we received a lot of suggestions about how to improve the dashboard, as it became harder and harder to have a good overview if you one many sessions created or shared with. Now we are happy to announce the new redesigned dashboard as the solution to always stay on top of…

TrainedOn is now SessionLab

2016 was an inspiring year for us. Many facilitators discovered our platform, we worked on and delivered exciting new features, and we continued learning and growing along the way. As the year comes to a close we have one more important announcement left: we are changing the name of our platform to SessionLab. While there…

2015 – The year of focus and learning

The New Year is knocking on the doors, which brings an opportunity to reflect on what happened with TrainedOn in the past year. To put it into perspective, going from a hobby to an incubator in 2013 and then launching our product and tweaking the business last year, 2015 is best characterised by the words…

More than 100 exercises in our new library

We are thrilled to introduce the SessionLab library of facilitation techniques. You can already find more than 100 handpicked exercises collected from free public sources that you can search and filter by suggested number of participants, length of exercise and topics. Once you have found the exercise that fits, you can easily add it to…