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How To Facilitate Cooperative Learning In A Team
How to Facilitate Cooperative Learning in a TeamHow to Facilitate Cooperative Learning in a Team 8 Cool Ways to Kick Off a Class or Meeting Did you know that there are more than 28,000 three-second moments that happen every single day? The thing is, we totally forget...
How To Build Emotional Connection In A Relationship
This is the 105th video tutorial that I've recorded and I think my dad actually used to say, still says, this phrase, "Truth is truth." I'm sure that somebody else has said it too because truth is truth, right. Whether you believe something or not about something...
How To Facilitate A Debate In The Classroom
In this blog, I'm super excited to unpack a very creative way and a very fun way for students to debate something in a really healthy productive and educational way and it is called The Candy Bar Method. It was adapted actually by my mother-in-law, Anne, who I will...
How To Make Remote Collaboration Work
How do you make remote team collaboration work? It's a really big question. In this blog, I'm gonna give you a really clean 3-step process that you can go through to make remote collaboration work better. Even though I don't know your team and your context or how you...
How Does Technology Make Learning Fun
How Does Technology Make Learning Fun?How Does Technology Make Learning Fun? Improve Engagement While Minimizing Distraction With Backup Plan Several years ago, I was at a conference on teaching and learning with technology where one of the keynote speakers went by...
How To Bring Up Topics In A Conversation
Massive "aha" driving down the road with my brother, Ben. Realized that something really unique happens in conversation when you're on a road trip and that is you're fed all of this data all around you. We just drove by a Marriott and I talked about the article that...
How To Go From Small Talk To Deep Conversation
Through my work I've gotten to facilitate thousands of conversations with hundreds of thousands of people about all sorts of topics. In that work, I've learned a couple really key lessons that have helped me create more conversations that matter. In this blog, I'm...
What Is The Objective Of Team Building Activities
What's the objective of team building activities? This is a question that you might be asking as you're watching this video and searching for this video, but it also is a question that participants of team building often ask. What is the point of this? What is the...
What Skills Do You Need To Be A Facilitator
I'm here to give you a little mini masterclass in what skills you need to be a facilitator. I actually used to teach 2 facilitation courses at Penn State University. One was a team development and leadership development facilitation course and another was a dialogue...
What Is A Webinar And How Does It Work
What is a webinar and how does it work? I'm going to unpack 7 really frequently asked questions about what a webinar is and how it works so that you, by the end of it, are an expert in all things webinar. It's kind of a buzzword after this 2020, 2021 situation. Blog...
How To Make Learning Fun For Adults
Blog Note: The following is an adapted and edited transcript of one of our daily YouTube tutorials. We know sometimes it is easier to scroll through written content which is why we are publishing here. Because of that, there may be typos or phrases that seem out of...
How To Make Team Building Activities Successful
If you have ever dreaded team building or you're leading a group in team building who is dreading it, this video is for you. If you're a hundred percent pumped for all things team building, you're going to really love the massive story of personal failure that I'm...
Can You Do Breakout Rooms In A Zoom Webinar
Can you do breakouts in a zoom webinar? No. Well, actually you cannot in a zoom webinar, in a zoom meeting you can do breakouts, but in this video I'm going to show you 3 of my favorite workaround techniques to create really meaningful engagement even though you...
How To Present A Webinar Without PowerPoint Slides
Hey y'all. I have led hundreds of webinars, virtual workshops, sessions for clients all around the world just in the last year. Tens of thousands of people. I've learned lots of ways to not lead a webinar well. In this blog, I'm gonna answer a frequently asked...
What Is Psychological Safety In The Workplace
What is psychological safety in the workplace? If you follow this channel at all which is designed specifically for leaders and educators to help create and make connection easy online and off, you've heard me talk about this idea of psychological safety a lot. In...
How To Ask Questions To Get The Answers You Want
https://youtu.be/VruB5E_5k14 This blog is going to be on how to ask questions to get the answers that you want. This is a question, ironically, that I get asked fairly often. My job, I get to work with some of the smartest and most talented leaders and educators on...
How To Do Virtual Team Building
Hey, what's going on? Nice to see- oh you're on mute yeah- no. Luckily, I am not actually on a zoom call. I am in a lovely little studio with Steven here and the aim today is going to be to unpack how do you do virtual team building. It's one of the most frequently...
What Are Team Building Activities Good For
I don't necessarily love the word "team building" but it is a question worth pondering, "What are team building activities good for?" The reason that I'm making this video, even though I don't love the word "team building" is oftentimes my customers and clients will...