Collaborative workshops from the beach

Or distributed workshops from different locations… Your seat is waiting next to mine… During my career I had to facilitate a lot of Agile retrospectives and other collaborative workshops with people sitting in different offices, countries, continents,… and as such had a huge interest in the first Belgian conference on “remote working”. I was looking […]

Intera(ttra)ctive Presentations

Guestblog by Jasper Sonnevelt, VX Company If keeping someone’s attention in a lecture was business, it would have an 80% failure rate.” – dr. John Medina Whether you’re a seasoned presenter/trainer or just every now and than presenting something to your colleagues, you will know that one of the hardest things about giving a presentation […]

Creating clarity within a group – Ruben Van Der Laan

The discussion heated up. I simply asked all participants, a management team, to take a stance by physically putting on a scale a coloured dot. For this growing organisation I was curious to know what the management wanted: more systemisation of processes on the one hand or more self-organisation and responsibilities on a lower level. […]

49 Ways to Spice Up Your Meetings by Ruben Van Der Laan

Henry Ford would have loved producing our current day meetings the way he produced his cars. His famous ‘any colour – so long as it’s black’ would have marvelously fit the numerous meetings that are being churned out worldwide. A meeting room is a meeting room and a meeting is a meeting. All black, all […]

Gamestorming Retreat grows facilitation skills

Today’s gamestorming retreat session took us through the facilitation of 6 different games which were played several times. Each time we took into account the learning from the previous session into a new experiment and as such grew our collaborative facilitation skills tremendously. Conclusion of the day: it is not all about the game, the right facilitation […]