Blog articles about facilitating innovation and design thinking workshops or sessions.
Learn how shifting from content delivery to experience design and applying design thinking can transform your workshops, trainings, and leadership sessions.
From Content Delivery to Experience Design (through Design Thinking) Read More »
Explore the shift from presenting to facilitating and learn how more interactive, engaging experiences can improve learning, connection, and workshop impact.
From Presenter to Facilitator: The Shift That Changed My Work Read More »
Learn a simple storytelling framework leaders can use in any meeting or presentation: Challenge → Idea → Action. Clarify your message, build alignment, and drive action.
A Simple Storytelling Model for Business, Leaders and Innovators Read More »
Facilitation and session design training for leaders to run engaging workshops, offsites, and working sessions that build connection, spark insight, improve collaboration, and inspire action. The facilitator leadership program is delivered in scalable, cohort, or train-the-trainer formats.
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Innovative Workshop Design & Facilitation Coaching
Learn to design and facilitate innovative, engaging workshops with personalized coaching from Dr. Darin Eich. Master design thinking, AI tools, and experiential learning to elevate your programs and create transformational learning experiences.
Coaching Program on Innovative Workshop Design and Facilitation Read More »
The Team Assessment Workshop Toolkit is a practical guide for facilitators, leaders, and learning professionals who want to help teams turn assessment insights into action. This free resource from InnovationTraining.org includes sample agendas, reflection prompts, mapping templates, and facilitation tips you can use with any assessment—such as DISC, MBTI, StrengthsFinder, Big Five, or an Innovation Assessment. Use it to design experiential team-building sessions that help your group understand one another, collaborate more effectively, and innovate together.
In an uncertain VUCA world marked by increasing complexity and constant change, strategy must evolve. It’s no longer about setting a plan and sticking to it, strategy needs to be a shared, ongoing conversation that adapts as the environment shifts. That’s the thinking behind the Strategy Signal Workshop.
This facilitation-driven experience is designed to help teams not just talk about strategy but do strategy together in a strategy design sprint style. There are many different kinds of strategy workshops that can be done in the room or virtually together. This specific process is based on tools and principles from the book Strategy Signal by the lightning decision jam creators, the workshop helps groups move from confusion to clarity by identifying signals of change and turning them into actionable strategy.
Assess your knowledge of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Take this quiz to test your understanding of LSP facilitation principles and best practices. This assessment will help you assess your understanding of running effective LSP workshops in organizational settings.
This quiz is based on the LSP Open Source material and facilitation best practices. Learn more about and access the complete LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Open Source Guide.
I’ve gotten quite interested in Froebel blocks. I’ve picked up a few antique sets to collect and use for storytelling in my design thinking workshops. I see them on display in exhibits about Frank Lloyd Wright and also at the Design Museum in London. The story is that many of the most famous designers in history, like Frank Lloyd Wright, grew up playing with Froebel blocks (and learning design from them). As I’ve learned more about the method of using Froebel blocks in classes with students, I notice the origins of popular training methods (like LSP) in the flow of activities.
Froebel Blocks, LEGO® Serious Play®, Kindergarten and Design Education Read More »
This “Facilitating with AI” model presents a framework by dividing both Facilitators and Participants into categories that highlight different levels of AI integration. Here’s a text-based layout of this 6-quadrant model.
Facilitating with AI: A model for group facilitators Read More »
