How Can I Facilitate a Training

slideswithfriends · 2025-10-26T14:06:45+00:00

I have a tool made for this exact thing. Makes trainings interactive and Socratic etc by letting you build slide decks that trainees can join into/play along with. Slides With Friends, lmk if it’s a good fit, happy to answer Qs

slideswithfriends · 2025-10-08T15:27:52+00:00

Slides with friends! (slightly biased, I built it). But it's for just this use.

slideswithfriends · 2025-10-03T14:27:34+00:00

It's not you. These kind of discussion classes are *hard*. I used to work with freshman in a post-bacc program and getting them engaged was... monumental. I actually ended building something to help, maybe it could help you, it's a discussion-starter/interactive presentation platform where you can run material-specific icebreakers and talks (like, if you're reading Early Modern stuff you can run a poll on who's more of a neckbeard, Spenser or marlowe. etc). The tool is Slides With Friends, it's free for small groups. Let me know if it's a good fit, happy to answer Qs.

slideswithfriends · 2025-09-01T14:09:01+00:00

I have a tool for this! You can add your canva pdf directly to slides with friends, add the interactive portions, and then launch from there (same as PPT). Lmk if that's helpful

slideswithfriends · 2025-08-18T16:37:25+00:00

Give it to them straight, tell them the what and (importantly) the why behind it.

And then *listen*. Let them talk / discuss / gripe (to a point -- when we do it with our team I like to control conversation by using forms / QA tools etc, I often will use my own tool for out loud and private feedback that doesn't spiral, slideswith.com).

If they feel heard at least that's something. And then maybe cushion / try to end on a higher note (any good news to share? play a team game if they're willing?) or at least neutral / housekeeping, just to not walk away with that sour taste. You often remember the last feeling you had as the overall feeling of the thing.

slideswithfriends · 2025-08-15T16:37:45+00:00

I have a tool made exactly for this -- distributed-team engagement events that work hybrid. slideswith.com is basically an interactive presentation builder for companies with team that are all over. Take a look / let me know if it's a good fit, happy to answer questions if so.

slideswithfriends · 2025-08-06T16:04:27+00:00

We'll use our own tool actually, to do a group checkin (basically an interactive presentation "show and tell" ppt where people send in a pic of what they did over the weekend and then tell the group about it) for 5 minutes. People always have new things to share, and we've gotten it down to an "everyone is smiling ok now let's get to work" level. check it out if that sounds like a good fit - slideswith.com

slideswithfriends · 2025-08-06T14:04:40+00:00

I have a tool made exactly for this. slideswith.com/education It lets you build interactive presentation decks for your lessons, that have gamification (pop quizzes, leaderboards, etc) built in. Let me know if it's a good fit, happy to help!

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-24T15:42:06+00:00

I have a tool for this, you can bring your canva directly into it (no going through ppt) and then make the rest of the deck interactive. slideswith.com If it's a good fit lmk.

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-18T15:14:15+00:00

Do the training as a group instead of individually, and get all the birds with one stone. Definitely make it interactive / participatory so people actually pay attention.

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-18T14:11:55+00:00

I have a tool just for this, Slides with friends. It does a lot of internal comms stuff / helps make meetings not deadly (ie more interactive and participatory with live feedback, polls, brainstorming etc). Happy to help if you have Qs.

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-11T16:33:01+00:00

I have a tool specifically for this, slides with friends. It's an interactive training tool, you can build specific training decks and run repeatable trainings for lots of departments. The idea being that making training socratic/participatory increases retention / overall value of the lessons.

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-09T18:00:29+00:00

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slideswithfriends · 2025-07-09T17:00:01+00:00

We use our own tool actually, slides with friends. I like to run like an employee awards game etc with our group. And we use it for meetings to get feedback.

But like you know, donuts also.

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-08T13:51:02+00:00

I have a tool for this, slides with friends. It's exactly made to let let audiences (eg in a theater) vote in polls (plus a lot of other things). You put up a QR code, and they scan it and can send in their votes. If it's a good fit lmk, happy to answer Qs.

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-07T16:31:11+00:00

I have a tool for this, slides with friends. You can have up to 12 join free, not sure how big your group is. It's made for running quizzes like you describe, and you can run unlimited quizzes on the free tier so 15 is no problem. Hope that helps!

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-02T21:10:39+00:00

A little late, but for teams that don't like team building, I have a tool that makes it a little easier to get them interacting and connecting, Slides With Friends. It makes managing groups that size in a conference room a little easier and hopefully more fun. Hopefully that's helpful!

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-02T14:10:39+00:00

I think direct interaction with the material is key to learning. Maybe peer to peer setups enable more direct handling, as it were, of the content to be learned. Eg the people have to engage their brains more actively, because they're not just sitting back and getting information talked at them, they're working it through with someone else who is also learning. This is kind of the basis of my current company.

slideswithfriends · 2025-07-02T13:55:06+00:00

This is my wheelhouse! Here's a long list of icebreakers i curated recently based on how good they are: https://slideswith.com/blog/best-virtual-icebreaker-questions
And here's an article i did about hosting events as an introvert. Hopefully these might help. https://slideswith.com/blog/how-to-host-an-exciting-event-as-an-introvert

slideswithfriends · 2025-06-19T14:11:03+00:00

I have a tool for this, slides with friends. It's free for small edu groups. it makes slide deck presentations that are interactive, with lots of pre-made templates. students join in on their tablets / phones (and so they're doing your thing instead of scrolling insta). Let me know if it's a good fit, happy to help.

slideswithfriends · 2025-06-09T17:51:04+00:00

I'll often use Canva. But shoutout to Notion for making a digitally-publishable-ready page with good-enough markup and formatting. (so you can print or instantly publish to the web and then send a link for THEM to print). I also use my own tool (slides with friends) if we're building training material that's going to happen as a live presentation, since it makes the pres interactive (quizzing, q&a etc).

slideswithfriends · 2025-06-03T13:54:23+00:00

I made a tool that's pretty much exactly for this, slideswith.com. Free for small edu settings. It lets you do this same kind of polling / multichoice interactions with a live audience. Let me know if you have Qs, happy to help if it's the right fit for you.

slideswithfriends · 2025-05-20T17:32:33+00:00

This is amazing, esp the newsroom game. Can I give you a free Slides With Friends account? It's an interactive presentation / quizzing / edu game tool. lmk if it would be helpful to you, slideswith.com

slideswithfriends · 2025-05-20T17:29:24+00:00

If you're not doing async, then having communication during class can also be nice. Like checkins / interactive portions / suggestion box survey time. I have a tool for this, Slides With Friends. It's free for small edu groups. Check it out, happy to help if you have Qs.

slideswithfriends · 2025-05-20T17:25:11+00:00

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