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13 Best Meeting Management Software For Effective Meetings

Good meetings make your work easier, not harder. They help teams remove blockers, get stuff done and feel more aligned. Done well, meetings can become the beating heart of an effective organization. But how? Whether you're a project manager or team leader, the right meeting management software can make managing efficient meetings easy and save you valuable time. In this guide, we'll explore the best meeting management software, each offering unique features to help you plan, execute, and optimize your meetings effectively. Good meetings are how the best teams align, make decisions and discuss what's important to them. The majority of employees spent up to one third of their work…

39 best instructional design software tools

Self-paced training and learning programs are a great way for organizations to upskill their teams and create innovation. The right instructional design software can be the difference between an engaging learning experience and a training program that falls flat. So how to choose the right solution for your needs? In this guide, we'll explore instructional design software tools that help learning designers at every stage of the process. From creating a learning flow and conduct needs assessments all the way through to creating training videos, hosting your courses and measuring the impact, you'll find a tool to help here. Innovative organizations full of happy and productive employees often have one…

13 best change management software tools

Implementing organizational change is a complex process. For change managers seeking to improve innovation, solve big problems and maintain a competitive edge, the right change management tool can help ensure the success of your change initiative. In this guide, we'll explore the best change management software on the market. Whether you’re looking for a complete change management hub or need a tool to improve expressly designed for the area of change you're working on, you’ll find an effective change management tool here. Successfully implementing change for a team or organization means using the right tools for each part of the process. Project management software has a massive part to play,…

14 Best Virtual Meeting Tools (that we actually use!)

Virtual meetings have become the lifeblood of modern work and collaboration. Whether you're hosting a team meeting, conducting a client presentation, or facilitating a workshop, the right virtual meeting tools can make all the difference in productivity, engagement, and overall success. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore the 14 best virtual meeting tools for 2024, each offering unique features to enhance your online interactions and run more productive online meetings. In a remotely distributed, always-online world, virtual meetings are the norm. On a typical week, more than 50% of employees spend between one and three hours in virtual meetings. That’s a lot of time spent looking at cameras and screens! …

18 Free Facilitation Resources We Think You’ll Love

Facilitation is more and more recognized as a key component of work, as employers and society are faced with bigger and more complex problems and ideas. From facilitating meetings to big, multi-stakeholder strategy development workshops, the facilitator's skillset is more and more in demand. In this article, we will go through a list of the best online facilitation resources, including newsletters, podcasts, communities, and 10 free toolkits you can bookmark and read to upskill and improve your facilitation practice. When designing activities and workshops, you'll probably start by using templates and methods you are familiar with. Soon enough, you'll need to expand your range and look for facilitation methods and…

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Free Online Resources for Soft Skills Training Material

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 energizer games are essential for an engaging and effective soft skills training. Soft skills training programs may include different topics, such as effective communication, time management, emotional intelligence, presentation skills, active listening and more. They may be short or part of a more comprehensive program. Certainly, being directed to adult learners, they must include hands-on practice and engaging activities for skill development. It takes careful consideration to choose the right activities for…

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19 Best Free Workshop Resources

Meetings and workshops are where collaborative learning happens. 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, a team retreat, a kick-off meeting, a co-creation session or a regular project meeting. It takes careful consideration to pick the right interactive workshop resources for your session, the ones that will fit perfectly with your learning objectives, group size, profile of participants, and available time. You may already have some favorite exercises for different types of events, but as…

47 useful online tools for workshop planning and meeting facilitation

Effective online tools are a necessity for smooth and engaging virtual workshops and meetings. But how do you choose the right ones? Do you sometimes feel that the good old pen and paper or MS Office toolkit and email leaves you struggling to stay on top of managing and delivering your workshop? Fortunately, there are plenty of online tools to make your life easier when you need to facilitate a meeting and lead workshops. In this post, we’ll share our favorite online tools you can use to make your job as a facilitator easier. In fact, there are plenty of free online workshop tools and meeting facilitation software you can…

Remote Problem Solving Webinar & Resources

Online workshops are an evolving field. Many facilitators have had to adapt to designing and leading workshops for remote teams but we still have room to grow and improve. In this recorded webinar, we'll design a remote problem-solving template from the ground up. You'll see first-hand how to design workshops quickly and easily, as well as picking up some valuable tips and tricks for facilitating remote workshops in virtual environments. Alongside the recording, you'll find the workshop template also see a collection of questions and answers from our previous session concerning everything from session design to online tools and remote facilitation. Let's dig in! Watch the webinarSessionLab templateMural board Q&A…

Survey report: online facilitation and virtual meetings

We are in a transition where leaders have canceled all their in-person events (due to coronavirus) and don't yet know what their teams need. Many institutions have frozen spending and so there is a lot of unknown as to what my client landscape will look like as we go forward. 95% of my existing contracts were canceled so there's a lot of transition and adaptation going on.Survey respondent It’s no secret that the current global crisis is affecting the world of facilitation. Organizations are freezing budgets, canceling live meetings, and figuring out how to restructure their businesses for remote working environments.Facilitators are having to adapt too. Transitioning from running live…

17 Tools to Improve Office Productivity

Recent statistics show that 85% of the global workforce is actively disengaged at work, causing a global impact of $7 trillion in lost productivity. With this in mind, it’s vital to the success of your organization that you find innovative methods of engaging your workforce to increase productivity. Implementing these productivity tools could have a positive effect on improving employee engagement and achieving your organizational goals. There are thousands of productivity tools to choose from that will help your office excel. It’s essential, however, to select the ones that best fit the needs of your business and employees. 92% of employees agree that when a company optimizes the right tools…

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How to always be a prepared facilitator – with workshop ideas in your pocket

Running effective meetings takes lots of preparation. When planning a workshop agenda, it’s easy to worry that you’ll run out of ice breaker activities or be unprepared should you suddenly need to take your agenda in a different direction during your session. Nadja Petranovskaja knows this all too well. Having originally trained as a psychologist, Nadja worked in a number of different positions at Daimler, IBM, Airbus and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. In her different roles as a consultant, project manager or within HR, Nadja ran regular internal training sessions for her colleagues where she shared her knowledge and skills. “Initially, my biggest challenge was to handle the group dynamics. As a facilitator,…

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