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New Overview Print/PDF options 🖨️ + Groups in Library

The start of the new year has brought us some fresh energy and we hope that 2021 will allow all of us to have in-person workshops again, besides the remote sessions we have grown used to. Whether you are printing out your workshop agendas on paper or exporting to PDF to share digitally, we have…

How to Run a Virtual End-of-Year Team Event – Real Example

Whether you call it a holiday celebration, Christmas party or year closing event, each year you and your team likely hold a session to bring everyone together and close the year before heading off for the holidays. At SessionLab, we felt it was important to hold a team session to close the year, have fun,…

Free online tools for workshops and meetings

34 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…

17 Effective Leadership Activities and Games (That Work Online Too)

More and more people are asked to lead teams nowadays in the workplace, yet the path to becoming a good leader is a long and not always straightforward one. Practical leadership activities are a great way of moving toward that path, whether you perform them as a facilitator with your own team or with an…

Better mobile experience and many other exciting improvements

SessionLab has just gotten even better with a range of cool new features in the past weeks. Here we are to recap for you the fresh improvements. Workshop planning on mobile devices Up until recently SessionLab’s workshop planner tool lacked a mobile-friendly version. We know a few determined people who kept using it on mobile…

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Top 10 Free Online Resources for Workshop Activities (2020)

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,…

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 at work. Personal interaction is the foundation on which happiness and successful results are built and taking the time to use get to know each other…

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 meeting or group training workshop you probably have your favorite group activities 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 many…

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 - facilitation is…