Delivery Matters

Stories behind workshop plans, post-its and markers.

A guide to facilitating remote workshops and virtual meetings

Working from remote workplaces or from home is often touted as the future of work. Studies show that remote workers are happier and more productive than their office working counterparts and the benefits for companies moving to distributed workforces are great too! As teams and organizations begin to transition to working online, the need for…

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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…

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…

The Best Online Tool to Create Workshops [Case Study]

How would you solve the challenge of designing an international train-the-trainer course with 10 trainers? And without ever being in the same room while planning the event? The organizing team of trainers needed a solution to coordinate the design of their train-the-trainer course — something that would make the process of session planning easier and…

75 essential workshop methods from Hyper Island (now in SessionLab library)

It is our pleasure to let you know that in the SessionLab library of facilitation methods you can now find and use methods from Hyper Island Toolbox - the toolbox that was most commonly mentioned by SessionLab users in the past year. Continue reading to find out how the Toolbox grew out of the vision…

Group vs team: What’s the difference?

I remember the first time I had to do a workshop for 30 or so bright-eyed students on the subject of teamwork. I had to explain the difference between a group and a team and how to form a group into a team. Up until this particular workshop what I have known about the group…

Thiagi methods now in SessionLab Library!

Learning by playing a game As children, it is so natural for us to play games. During these game-times we learn a lot of things, that affects our thinking, feeling and actions. Usually, these learning-by-doing moments happen unnoticed, thus naturally. However, as we grow up we forget about the importance of this special kind of…

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…

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…

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.…

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…