Category: FACILITATION TIPS

Spice-Up Virtual Meetings * LEARNING APPS

In light of the Coronavirus, I asked our LinkedIN group for their best suggestions to keep a virtual meetings or learning event fun. Whether you’re working from home, conducting online meetings, webinars, or facilitating remote learning, these tips will serve you well. I’ve synthesized t... Read More

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Spice-Up Online Learning – PREP ATTENDEES

In light of the Coronavirus, I asked our LinkedIN group for their best suggestions to keep virtual meetings and learning fun when working remotely. Whether you’re working from home, conducting online meetings, webinars, or facilitating remote learning, these tips will serve you well. In this 4... Read More

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Spice-Up your Virtual Meeting – MAXIMIZE PARTICIPATION

In light of the Coronavirus, I asked our LinkedIN group for their best suggestions to keep any virtual meeting and learning event fun. Whether you’re working from home, conducting online meetings, webinars, or facilitating remote learning, these tips will serve you well. In this four-part seri... Read More

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Spice-Up Virtual Meetings – CONNECTION

When COVID first hit in early 2020, I asked our LinkedIN group for their best suggestions to keep learning and virtual meetings fun. No matter where you’re working — home, hybrid, or office — these tips will serve you well to energize webinars, learning events, or online meetings. ... Read More

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A Perfect DEBRIEF for a Perfect Learning Game

Let’s say you find the perfect learning game—for communication, listening, negotiation, leadership, process improvement, problems solving, critical thinking, time management—then what? Games work because they remove players from their usual setting and create a safe environment to take risks a... Read More

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10 Treats for Tight Training Budgets

“Corporate training expenditures are shrinking!” touts Training Magazine in their December 2019 issue. The magazine has been reporting on the corporate training industry for 38 years now.  While the study focuses specifically on the U.S. market, the theme is familiar to individuals and organiza... Read More

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Training Superheroes have Trainers’ Super Powers

We need more super heroes. Not the kind you’re thinking of — that can leap over a tall building in a single bound, defy gravity, move mountains, or see through walls. No, we need more real life training superheroes. Maybe we already have them and we just have to take time to notice. They... Read More

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Prepping for Pop-Up Classes–make the most of impromptu learning events

Following a growing trend at universities around the country, Pop-Up Classes are emerging in corporate training world as well. Pop-Ups Pop–up classes are short workshops that aren’t part of a standard curriculum. Rather, they are impromptu learning events that give learners the chance t... Read More

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Just-Right Recognition – a dozen ways to say “good job!”

Recognition is said to increase performance by as much as 24%. Still, finding the perfect way to say “good job” or “I appreciate you” should start with a quick assessment of your goals. What do you hope to achieve by recognizing someone’s effort? REWARD – focus on Grandiose Achie... Read More

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Me First: A Firsthand Experience with Game Buzzers

I asked Jonathan Winkler, a seventh grade history teacher in Newton, Massachusetts to test out a new Me First Buzzer System.  At my request, he gave it to me straight and shared his Game Buzzers experience—successes and challenges. To set the scene, understand that he introduced this snazzy new b... Read More

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