Effective Team Weekly Meetings: Putting Together a Weekly Meeting Agenda

Sometimes, working in a team can be quite challenging. While your entire team may be working toward a common objective, everyone is doing so not only from different perspectives, but from different locations as well. All this makes team meetings (and a weekly meeting agenda) a crucial and necessary part of the work week. Weekly …

How to Make a Fishbone Diagram

All businesses, no matter the industry, have to face some unexpected challenges to get a project from start to finish. Whether it’s product design, brainstorming, or just general problem-solving, identifying the cause of the issue at hand is essential to avoid future occurrences. However, it’s not always easy to pin down the particular source of …

Eisenhower Matrix Explained

How do you organize things when you have a lot to do in a single day? Most people start with a to-do list. But how do you delegate your tasks and activities based on what’s important? That’s where the Eisenhower Matrix comes in. Prioritizing your tasks effectively makes sure you get things done and complete …

How to Use Technology in the Classroom

It’s no secret that, across sectors, technology has advanced rapidly over the past few years—and the education sector is no different. Technology is everywhere in education. Regardless of how many students you have, integrating technology into the classroom has become the norm for teachers. In this blog, we’ll dive into why integrating technology into the …

How to Hold a Successful Strategy Session

Strategy meetings are crucial to any company’s success, but they’re also among the hardest things to get right. Who should you invite? How can you successfully persuade people from daily operations to focus on something else—a strategy meeting? And how do you ensure these strategic decisions are made efficiently and collaboratively? So many questions! But …

The SAMR Model Explained

Dr. Ruben Puentedura developed the SAMR Model to classify various levels of technology used in the classroom. The SAMR model technology was developed so that educators from different fields could speak the same language in their pursuit of personalized education and the visualization of abstract ideas for their students. In a hybrid learning environment, the …

7 Steps to Setting Up a Virtual Classroom

If you’re involved in any kind of training, you probably know the importance of virtual classrooms. With everything happening over the web, the world is slowly expanding to be a massive digital arena, and virtual training or classrooms are a big part of that. That’s why learning how to create a virtual classroom is essential. …

How to Draw On Screen During a Zoom Meeting

Sometimes, the best way to present a topic on a Zoom call is to sketch it out. Zoom’s whiteboard feature is a game-changer when it comes to visualizing your ideas during meetings or lessons. Whether you want to sketch a quick chart, draw some diagrams, or just jot down handwritten notes, drawing on Zoom helps …

8 Steps to Setting up a Virtual Office

With a virtual office set up, you don’t have to struggle every day looking for a parking space or worrying about coworkers microwaving fish in the shared kitchen. However, with no more physical meetings, a virtual office requires an immense shift in how you view work. You’ll need additional digital tools to complete your daily …

How to Take Notes During a Zoom Meeting

In the modern, remote-first workplace, every significant conversation takes place over Zoom. That’s why learning how to take notes during Zoom meetings is crucial to saving those important meeting-related insights. The best way to save all those important meeting-related insights is with an established note-taking system. The good news? With the ideal Zoom note-taking strategy …