Delivery Matters

Stories behind workshop plans, post-its and markers.

What is an Agile coach and how do I become one?

Have you ever felt lost in a conversation because people were talking about a topic with such confidence and jargon that you were afraid to ask for clarification? This is how many people first encounter Agile coaching and development concepts and it can be a little overwhelming! This post was created as a roadmap for…

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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…

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:…

What is an Agile coach and how do I become one?

Free online tools for workshops and meetings

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…

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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,…

What is an Agile coach and how do I become one?

Four-dimensional facilitation techniques

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

Use own private libraries and share sessions with a link

2015 – The year of focus and learning

Desing effective workshop, meeting or training

Team Canvas – Get your team on the same page

Real-time collaboration, printing options and more

More than 100 exercises in our new library

What did the year 2014 bring?

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

Where TrainedOn is heading to?

Why are there no digital tools for professional trainers?

What is an Agile coach and how do I become one?

25 useful free online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

Top 10 Free Online Resources for Workshop Activities (2019)