Delivery Matters

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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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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…

Real-time collaboration, printing options and more

In today’s update we are bringing you an important feature that makes SessionLab a truly collaborative process design tool. Plus now you can customise your printouts. Here are the detailed descriptions of the new goodies: Real-time collaboration and editor rights: When you invite a collaborator for your workshop or training plan now you can work…

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…

What did the year 2014 bring?

We are reaching the end of 2014 - a year that brought big steps forward for TrainedOn, even if it felt like a big rollercoaster ride sometimes. Looking back at where have we been a year ago, we have a smile on our face when seeing regular user activity in TrainedOn and increased anticipation to build…

Trainers and coaches in the Netherlands: Share your digital tools and technologies used in training

Inspired by a recent blog post on lack of digital tools to support trainers and in our effort to promote sharing of practices and tips between trainers, we are organizing a first trainers’ meet up in the Netherlands. You can find below the description of the event and register on facebook or meetup.com. How can technology get…

Where TrainedOn is heading to?

TrainedOn is stepping out of beta phase after the past months of testing and development. We are introducing a tiered pricing model and focusing on developing long-requested new features. Scroll below if you want to read more on how we arrived here and what is ahead. There has been a lot going on here at…

Why are there no digital tools for professional trainers?

Despite the obvious teething problems, e-learning is sweeping through the worlds of education and corporate training. EdTech start-ups are increasingly the target of generous funding and investment. Classroom innovation — especially using interactive technology — is a multi-billion dollar business. Education is being rapidly and dramatically transformed by technology. Except, it seems, in one area:…

Can online courses substitute classroom training in the corporate world?

You can sit in your cosy living room and learn JavaScript on Codeacademy or take Intro to Physics course on Udacity. You choose the topic, the time and the place – what’s there not to like? Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are great! They are great in the same way as books are great - fantastic…

2013 in review

We have passed into 2014, and besides the great wishes for the upcoming year, it is an opportunity to reflect on what happened with us in the past year. The year 2013 was a breakthrough for us. The side-project we started doing as a hobby turned into an actual business that engaged us fully and…

Why trainers don’t share?

While working on SessionLab we’ve had the chance to interview many experienced soft skills trainers and educators from around the world. We were discussing individual working habits and the training industry in general to better understand trainers’ needs and desires. We received honest but sometimes puzzling replies to our questions. When we touched the topic…

15 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.…

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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,…

Gamestorming methods now in SessionLab library!

Imagine that you have been asked to lead the next meeting of your team. You know that you have one hour to help the team agree on the project’s next steps. However the last three meetings were painful, ineffective and the team did not decide on anything. So what do you do? Business meetings are…