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Books

10 Amazing Books to Boost Your Presentation Skills

Whether you want to gain value for your trainer’s career, you want to improve your presentation skills generally in work …
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Best Advanced Books for Trainers

11 advanced books on training to open new perspective for both experienced trainers & newbies Feel like you are ready …
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The 7 Best Books on Brain-Based Learning

At Trainers Toolbox, we simply can’t get enough of this topic, the way our brain works is too fascinating! (It …
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The Best Books about Facilitation

The 12 amazing books on facilitation that every facilitator and trainer should read To facilitate means “to make easy”. Sounds simple, but …
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Do we talk too much?
Lessons from the book “Training from the Back of the Room” and others.

You have seen it before Do you remember one very boring class from school? What about a hardly comprehensible talk …
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Exploring new frameworks to train leaders

Exploring new frameworks to train leaders? You want to see this one!

When people visualise Leadership, and related skills, they picture vision building, organisational development, seamless adoption of ideas, team performance improvement …
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The Best Books on Leadership

The Best Books on Leadership

To strengthen the leader in you or to give you a great new ideas on developing leadership skills of your …
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The Best Books on Coaching

The Best Books on Coaching

Regardless if you are an experienced coach, or a trainer tapping into exploring and developing coaching skills, this are great …
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The Best Books on Training Design

The Best Books on Training Design

Designing learning experience that takes into account individual differences as well as deep understanding of how learning happens in human …
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Strengths Based Approach 102: Discovering own strenghts

Strengths Based Approach 102: Discovering own strenghts

How to discover more about own strengths or lead others through self-discovery process of strengths ​What is Strengths based approach …
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Coaching

7 ways to use metaFox deep pictures in a training

In case you’re searching for a simple yet effective tool that can spark creativity, help with giving feedback and even …
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The Magic of the Story Cubes

There is an inner child in everybody. For some of us, it is the always present part of our personality …
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Perceptual positions: powerful exercise to strengthen understanding and empathy

Perceptual positions: powerful exercise to strengthen understanding and empathy

Looking for ways to boost empathy, strengthen communication and relationships, or diffuse conflict? When to use it “Perceptual positions” is …
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The Magic of a Great Debriefing poster by Trainers Toolbox

The Magic of a Great Debriefing poster by Trainers Toolbox

The key to impactful learning lies in well facilitated debriefing – so Trainers Toolbox team decided to support you in …
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The Best Books on Coaching

The Best Books on Coaching

Regardless if you are an experienced coach, or a trainer tapping into exploring and developing coaching skills, this are great …
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Strengths Profile (ex-R2) – strengths assessment tool

Strengths Profile (ex-R2) – strengths assessment tool

Strengths Profile is the most comprehensive of the three evidence based strengths assessment tools – read more about what value …
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VIA strengths assessment tool

VIA strengths assessment tool

VIA is one of the three evidence based assessments to explore personal strengths  VIA survey by VIA Institute on Character …
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Strenghtsfinder 2.0 strengths assessment tool

Strenghtsfinder 2.0 strengths assessment tool

Back to Strengths Based Approach: meet our favourite tool to explore personal strengths! StrengthsFinder 2.0 This post will tell you …
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Strengths Based Approach 103 – Strengths Assessment Tools

Strengths Based Approach 103 – Strengths Assessment Tools

Wish to take your Strengths Based Approach to the next level? These are the tools to check out! * Image …
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Strengths Based Approach 102: Discovering own strenghts

Strengths Based Approach 102: Discovering own strenghts

How to discover more about own strengths or lead others through self-discovery process of strengths ​What is Strengths based approach …
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Facilitation

Memorable Moments: Reshape Ordinary Workshops Into Extraordinary Experiences

20 Ideas to Try Out in Your Workshops What are memorable moments – and why should every workshop have them? …
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Why I Don’t Call Out Names in Workshops

How to Set the Stage Right for Your Workshop Let’s encourage participants to participate through their motivation & sense of …
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3 Practical Tips for Participation & Engagement in Workshops

Game-changing tips so you never hear crickets in your workshops Did you know that many workshop participants when hearing “This …
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Design Deeper Learning Experiences by Leveraging Emotions

A Set of Guiding Questions for Workshop Facilitators Emotions are in the very core of learning. When there is no …
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What’s Your Facilitator Style?

Unbox It with The ArchetyperEvery facilitator discovers their unique pathway to orchestrate collaboration, weaving together a tapestry of professional and …
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The Best Books about Facilitation

The 12 amazing books on facilitation that every facilitator and trainer should read To facilitate means “to make easy”. Sounds simple, but …
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Learnings from TTT Advanced

Insights are everywhere … but when a group of trainers comes together it escalates very quickly. An Advance Train-The-Trainers it’s …
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Gamification in learning

Gamification is a buzzword. We’ve all heard about it and we’ve probably also heard of its benefits when implemented in …
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How to add more movement to your workshops

How do you add movement to your workshops?Movement in workshops (if done in a congruent way) leads to more engagement,  …
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Moving through training from home – body tips vs. screen fatigue

Moving through training from home – body tips vs. screen fatigue You’re a facilitator, it’s Covid time and initial excitement …
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Games and tools

Nature Journaling – An Artistic Tool Not Only For Artists

Explore the Multiple Uses of This Simple Yet Engaging Tool In its core, Nature Journaling is a tool for observing …
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Gamification in learning

Gamification is a buzzword. We’ve all heard about it and we’ve probably also heard of its benefits when implemented in …
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7 ways to use metaFox deep pictures in a training

In case you’re searching for a simple yet effective tool that can spark creativity, help with giving feedback and even …
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The Magic of the Story Cubes

There is an inner child in everybody. For some of us, it is the always present part of our personality …
Read More…
Perceptual positions: powerful exercise to strengthen understanding and empathy

Perceptual positions: powerful exercise to strengthen understanding and empathy

Looking for ways to boost empathy, strengthen communication and relationships, or diffuse conflict? When to use it “Perceptual positions” is …
Read More…
Strengths Based Approach 103 – Strengths Assessment Tools

Strengths Based Approach 103 – Strengths Assessment Tools

Wish to take your Strengths Based Approach to the next level? These are the tools to check out! * Image …
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Trainers’ Compass – an amazing tool to navigate self-development as a trainer

Trainers’ Compass – an amazing tool to navigate self-development as a trainer

Trainers’ Compass is a powerful tool inspired by wheel-of-life that serves trainers as a structure in developing own self-awareness and …
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Strengths Based Approach 101: What is Strengths Based Approach?

Strengths Based Approach 101: What is Strengths Based Approach?

One of a great learnings from positive psyhcology that we can take into training is strengths based approach. But what …
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Feeling Magnets – simple tools that make emotions approachable

Feeling Magnets – simple tools that make emotions approachable

This playful yet profound tool is great for building emotional awareness, understanding of own emotions and strengthening emotional intelligence Feeling …
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Dixit – creativity meets storytelling

Dixit – creativity meets storytelling

Beautiful Dixit cards as a diverse tool for trainers to use in get-to-know, teambuilding, storytelling and many more contexts Created …
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Positive psychology

5 Reasons Why You as a Trainer, Facilitator and Educator Should Learn More About Positive Psychology, The Science of Wellbeing

Enrich Your Toolbox with Science​ Why Positive Psychology? (Or, how positive psychology improved me)​ Being an engineer next to a …
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Strengths Profile (ex-R2) – strengths assessment tool

Strengths Profile (ex-R2) – strengths assessment tool

Strengths Profile is the most comprehensive of the three evidence based strengths assessment tools – read more about what value …
Read More…
/ / Coaching, Positive psychology
VIA strengths assessment tool

VIA strengths assessment tool

VIA is one of the three evidence based assessments to explore personal strengths  VIA survey by VIA Institute on Character …
Read More…
/ / Coaching, Positive psychology
Strenghtsfinder 2.0 strengths assessment tool

Strenghtsfinder 2.0 strengths assessment tool

Back to Strengths Based Approach: meet our favourite tool to explore personal strengths! StrengthsFinder 2.0 This post will tell you …
Read More…
/ / Coaching, Positive psychology
Strengths Based Approach 103 – Strengths Assessment Tools

Strengths Based Approach 103 – Strengths Assessment Tools

Wish to take your Strengths Based Approach to the next level? These are the tools to check out! * Image …
Read More…
Strengths Based Approach 102: Discovering own strenghts

Strengths Based Approach 102: Discovering own strenghts

How to discover more about own strengths or lead others through self-discovery process of strengths ​What is Strengths based approach …
Read More…
Strengths Based Approach 101: What is Strengths Based Approach?

Strengths Based Approach 101: What is Strengths Based Approach?

One of a great learnings from positive psyhcology that we can take into training is strengths based approach. But what …
Read More…
Feeling Magnets – simple tools that make emotions approachable

Feeling Magnets – simple tools that make emotions approachable

This playful yet profound tool is great for building emotional awareness, understanding of own emotions and strengthening emotional intelligence Feeling …
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Brain-based Learning

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Trainers Skills

learning follow-up plan

Learning Follow-Up Plan poster by Trainers Toolbox

Wish for a cheatsheet to create a great Learning Follow-Up Plan? Here you go 🙂 One of the keys of …
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Mastering Online Training My Top 10 Tips

Mastering Online Training: My Top 10 Tips

“No.” That was my “straight-to-the-point” answer every time I was invited to bring one of my experiential learning workshops online …
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Leveraging emotions for more impactful learning experience

Leveraging emotions for more impactful learning experience If you have ever worked as a trainer, facilitator or teacher, you know …
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4 Questions to become an even better trainer

Always on the lookout to become even better at what you do? Want to become even better at who you …
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Beyond Inspiration: Why Feeling Inspired during Learning Matters, and What Matters Even More

Do you remember last time when you felt inspired within a learning experience? How did that impact your learning? Here …
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Design Deeper Learning Experiences by Leveraging Emotions

A Set of Guiding Questions for Workshop Facilitators Emotions are in the very core of learning. When there is no …
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Struggling with Difficult Participants? Do This Instead.

A question that comes up often among trainers and facilitators, including during the Train the Trainer courses, is: How can …
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From Intuitive to Intentional Trainer

My Unexpected Gains from Joining Train the Trainer Program Let’s back up to where my trainer journey started…. I have …
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3 Practical Tips for Participation & Engagement in Workshops

Game-changing tips so you never hear crickets in your workshops Did you know that many workshop participants when hearing “This …
Read More

Why I Don’t Call Out Names in Workshops

How to Set the Stage Right for Your Workshop Let’s encourage participants to participate through their motivation & sense of …
Read More


Emotions in Learning

Leveraging-emotions-for-more-impactful-learning-experience

Leveraging emotions for more impactful learning experience

Leveraging emotions for more impactful learning experience If you have ever worked as a trainer, facilitator or teacher, you know …
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Emotions in Learning: 5 great tips to ensure a positive impact on your learners’ emotions

How often do you wonder how your learner’s emotion impacts what they actually learn, how well they remember it and …
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Beyond Inspiration: Why Feeling Inspired during Learning Matters, and What Matters Even More

Do you remember last time when you felt inspired within a learning experience? How did that impact your learning? Here …
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Design Deeper Learning Experiences by Leveraging Emotions

A Set of Guiding Questions for Workshop Facilitators Emotions are in the very core of learning. When there is no …
Read More

Struggling with Difficult Participants? Do This Instead.

A question that comes up often among trainers and facilitators, including during the Train the Trainer courses, is: How can …
Read More

From Intuitive to Intentional Trainer

My Unexpected Gains from Joining Train the Trainer Program Let’s back up to where my trainer journey started…. I have …
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Memorable Moments: Reshape Ordinary Workshops Into Extraordinary Experiences

20 Ideas to Try Out in Your Workshops What are memorable moments – and why should every workshop have them? …
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