Delivery Matters

Stories behind workshop plans, post-its and markers.

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…

Free online tools for workshops and meetings

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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…

Liberating Structures now in SessionLab Library

Simple rules that make it easy to include and unleash everyone in shaping the future (or at least the next meeting) Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz sure had these kind of impressions and questions in their minds when they met in 2003 at Plexus Institute. They both had background in complexity science, improving organization’s workflow…

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…

🔓Lock the time of any block and 12-hour time option ⏰

Today we are bringing you a couple of timekeeping improvements in SessionLab: a time lock which allows you to fix the starting time of any block the option to switch to 12-hour (i.e. AM/PM) time in your schedules Read on for more details about the new features. Does it sometimes happen to you that certain…

Rich text formatting, session activity indicator & library commenting 💬

We are happy to bring you the latest updates in SessionLab: Let your text become rich! - not only in content but also in format. Rich-text formatting is now available in the session planner, so you can apply bold, italic, underline and bullet point formatting in any section of your session blocks. Get to know…

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…

Find and organise your sessions better in faster-than-ever SessionLab

In this update we bring you a report on maintenance and some exciting teasers for the future. In the past weeks we’ve been busy improving the ‘behind the scenes’ part of SessionLab. As a result we got a faster and a more reliable platform than ever before. Of course, we included some new features as…

Use own private libraries and share sessions with a link

We are excited to introduce you the latest updates in SessionLab. Your Private and Team Libraries of facilitation resources: Do you have some favourite methods or exercises that you often (re)use in your sessions? Now you can add them to your dedicated Private Library in SessionLab, so you can quickly find them next time you…

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…

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…

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 and not always straightforward 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. Leadership games…

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…

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…