How To Facilitate a Group With $0 and No Slides
What if you could prep a session that any group would love on a coffee-stained napkin at the hotel bar in under 10 minutes? No budget. No PowerPoint. In this post, I’ll show you how. I haven’t used a slide in the last 10 years. And yet I’ve professionally traveled around the world, presenting to […]
7 Ways to Build Connection Where You Live
Aaron Hurst, founder of the U.S. Chamber of Connection, shares 7 practical ways to connect in a new city, become an inviter, and rebuild community.
5 Examples of How to Engage an Audience in an Online Presentation
Ah, time to engage people in an online presentation. A sea of black boxes, some cameras on, some cameras off. Does this sound familiar? If you present online in any format, the five examples below will transform the way you host any virtual meeting, whether it is a thousand-person online conference or a 10-person meeting […]
How to Design Effective Microlearning for Employee Training
Most people hear “microlearning” and immediately think about condensing content into short videos. In this post, you will learn why that misses the point entirely, and how to design microlearning that actually changes what people do. Employee Training Under a Microscope Okay, so here’s the deal. I walked outside to my back garden and ripped […]
The #1 Mistake New Facilitators Make
Here’s the number one mistake new facilitators make: they work way too hard on all the wrong things. Today, I’m going to show you the traps and teach you how to not walk through them. The Mistake That Cost Me Millions This is young Chad speaking, the new facilitator version of me. I made this […]
How To Make Presentations Interactive (In A Time Crunch) w/ Rebecca Courtney
How do you make presentations interactive when you only have 20 minutes? In this video, Rebecca Courtney and I set a timer and play interactive presentation ping-pong. She shares an idea, I share an idea, back and forth, until the timer runs out. Every single one takes just a minute or two to run. Next […]
How to Present Technical Information to a Non-Technical Audience
How do you present a bunch of technical information to a non-technical audience? Ideally, you would take a USB drive, download all the technical information you have, plug it into somebody’s head, and have it download into their prefrontal cortex. That cannot happen (yet). So here are the three core ideas I use instead, plus […]
Inside Peek at the Connectors Summit
What actually happens when facilitators, trainers, and leaders gather to practice the craft of holding groups? This short film takes you inside the Connectors Summit to let the people in the room answer that for themselves. Trust as a Unit of Transformation Any change you want, whatever you care about, the most productive way to […]
Icebreakers for Adults That Aren’t Awkward (5 Proven Activities)
So, here you are Googling (or “AI-ing” around…doesn’t have quite the ring to it, does it?) for icebreakers for adults that aren’t awkward. I have field-tested the five activities I’m going to show you, not just share with you, with well over 100,000-plus people. So I know they will not be awkward for your group. […]
What Is the First Step in a Training Design Process
If you’re going to design any form of education, there’s one step that comes before everything else. It isn’t picking your content, and it definitely isn’t building your slides. Here’s the first step, and a story from a middle school science classroom that demonstrates this method’s power to engage even the toughest of groups. Alfred’s […]