It looks like it was yesterday when Vic and I signed up the papers to form Actineo. It is now 5 years of hard work, personal and business growth and lots and lots of great stories and learning to share with others. Over the past 5 years we have had the privilege of meeting thousands …
After months facilitating, producing and attending live virtual events, I have observed a recurring range of mistakes we often do as meeting hosts that can have an impact on the effectiveness and success of the event. One of the areas that frequently catches us is how to set up and deliver an effective use of …
Effective Breakout Facilitation and How to Avoid Breakout Loneliness Read More »
Thank you to everyone who took a moment to share their feedback and experiences of LAG20. This was our first ever live virtual online conference and it was important for us to create an engaging and interactive online experience. We believe in adopting a culture of continuous improvement & learning, with this in mind we …
When you think of being agile, what comes to mind? I doubt Flow Efficiency is the first thing you think of. My guess is it might have something to do with value delivery, methodologies, frameworks, events, or roles. These are all things that we sometimes hear people say when we ask them what “good” looks …
Flow Efficiency: The Hidden Truth of Agile Teams Read More »
“Platform skills” is the term most often used for face-to-face presentations: the presenter’s voice tone, body movement, facial expressions, movement, and energy. Let’s translate all of that to the virtual world with “staging.” What is Staging? “Staging” in the virtual world is defined as everything that is live-streamed by the virtual class presenter/trainer/host. Staging includes …
This is part of a series of posts investigating the 6 Trumps for Live Virtual Classes which we introduced in our post When Everything Is Suddenly Virtual. We suggest that Small Trumps Large. What does this mean? For example, when it comes to class size, our thinking is that smaller groups are better than large …
With the global pandemic forcing us into a prolonged isolation, we are starting to adapt to our new ways of working. For a lot of us there is little work to do as some organisations have paused or slowed down business, whilst others have furloughed staff. Even though this is a very difficult period, it …
Suddenly Furloughed? You can’t work, but you can train! Read More »
The last few weeks have been pretty tough on everyone. The new “normal” is quite different, and we have no idea what “normal” will look like when things “return back to normal”. So what have we been up to? I love working with my colleagues at Actineo because we pride ourselves on doing a job …
I’d like to talk about the Right to Pass from the Training from the BACK of the Room! Practitioner course. This is a follow up to my previous post about Psychological Safety and C1 – Connections activities. We often overlook choice as part of bringing Psychological Safety to the training room. If a participant has …
Training from the BACK of the Room!: Psychological Safety and The Right to Pass Read More »
We use Brain-Friendly Training techniques to create engaging training courses. We have picked up many of these techniques from studying Sharon Bowman’s Training from the BACK of the Room! book and also delivering the TBR Practitioner Course. So what can you do to create engaging training courses?
