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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…

Free online tools for workshops and meetings

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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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Free Online Resources for Soft Skills Training Materials (2019 update)

What are the best free online resources for soft skills training materials? We are going to help you to answer this question below! As a trainer, educator or facilitator, you have probably experienced that good icebreakers, exercises, and energiser games are essential for an engaging and effective soft skills training. It takes careful consideration to…

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5 Tips To Engage your Audience During Workshops

Engaging your audience is a tough job. Nowadays, it is even tougher when our capacity for attention is lower than a goldfish’s. The digital noise around us is so high only the extremities get through. Most of us have gotten used to this “new normal”, and we expect so much more from an article, a…

What is the train-the-trainer model and how can your organisation benefit from it?

Staying competitive and relevant in your market is more important now than ever. But to be in a position of relevance, training and development must be added to the list of ingredients that creates your success. A well-trained and motivated workforce is essential for a thriving business, and that is where the train-the-trainer model comes…

3 Ways to Give Effective Feedback Everytime

When was the last time you felt you learned something from feedback on your performance? Or that you got useful, workable suggestions? Or that the feedback was actually more like a conversation than your superior just listing all the things you’ve done wrong? Even when feedback is mostly constructive and positive it can be stressful…

Psychological Safety: The key to high-performing teams

What are the ingredients of a perfect team? Do teams perform better if they socialize outside of work? Do individual educational backgrounds affect a team’s success? Do strong-handed managers make teams more effective? These are just some of the questions Google’s researches asked when they embarked upon a journey to find out how to build…

5 Reasons Why Team Building is Crucial (With Team Building Activities!)

In our last post about groups and teams we looked at the differences between the two notions and listed seven points that need to be fulfilled in order to form a team from a group. In this post we explore further the formation of teams with a focus on team building - a popular, though…

5 Brilliant TED talks on Team Building

There are plenty of books and studies on how to form teams from groups, which parts of team development are crucial, and how to assemble high-performing teams. However, in our busy world it becomes harder and harder to squeeze in time to sit down, open a book and read. Normally, when faced with a problem…

34 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

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.…

34 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

New feature: Breakout sessions / Parallel tracks

Train the Trainer Course – A Complete Design Guide (With Examples)

Public Library of Workshop Templates in SessionLab

5 Great Toolkits of Facilitation Techniques

Design effective live and online workshops

Free Online Resources for Soft Skills Training Materials (2019 update)

5 Tips To Engage your Audience During Workshops

What is the train-the-trainer model and how can your organisation benefit from it?

3 Ways to Give Effective Feedback Everytime

Psychological Safety: The key to high-performing teams

5 Reasons Why Team Building is Crucial (With Team Building Activities!)

5 Brilliant TED talks on Team Building

34 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

20 Best Online Tools for Design Thinking

Train the Trainer Course – A Complete Design Guide (With Examples)