Co-creation works better when people feel like, Yep, Im part of this. Magic Maps is a super easy opener because it gets everyone typing right away-and gives you instant context about your audience. How to use it in your Co-Creation ILT: - Kick-off question: Where are you joining from today? (classic, always works) - Make it co-creation themed: What city has taught you the most about collaboration? - Set up the session together: If this workshop could teleport your training skills anywhere, where should we aim-better facilitation, better activities, better buy-in? Type a city that represents it for you. Trainer move: Once the map populates, call out clusters: Looks like weve got a mini cohort from Toronto-Toronto folks, what kind of training do you run? Thats instant social proof and instant community. Bonus: If youre doing global cohorts, you can ask: What time is it where you are? and use that to co-create break timing and energy levels.

Before you teach Co-Creation, co-create the starting point. Rating Polls let you ask one question and immediately see where the room is-without awkward silence or long explanations. Great Rating Poll prompts for this training: - On a scale of 110, how confident are you in facilitating co-creation with a group? - How often do you already use co-creation in your training? (1 = never, 10 = constantly) - How comfortable is your organization with letting learners shape the agenda? What you do with the result (this is where engagement jumps): - If scores are low: Cool, well build from the basics and do more practice. - If scores are high: Awesome-then well go advanced and youll help me pressure-test scenarios. That one moment tells participants, This session is being built with you, not just delivered at you.

Co-creation is one of those words that sounds obvious until you ask 30 trainers what it means and you get 30 different answers. Wonder Words makes that visible-and its a perfect way to start a shared definition. Word Cloud questions that work really well: - When you hear Co-Creation in training, whats the FIRST word that pops into your mind? - How do you feel about co-creating with participants? One word. (excited, nervous, skeptical, curious, etc.) - Whats the biggest blocker to co-creation in your workplace? One or two words. (time, culture, leaders, control, buy-in) How to facilitate it: - Read the big words out loud (those are the dominant realities in the room). - Pick one big word and ask: Who typed control-tell me whats behind that? Trainer tip: Use Combine Similar Answers so you dont end up with buy in / buy-in / buyin split into three different ideas.

If you want true co-creation, you need more than one-word answers. Talking Tiles is great for pulling richer responses from chat and making them feel like the material youre teaching from. Use it for prompts like: - Where in your job would co-creation make the biggest difference-designing sessions, handling tough groups, getting stakeholder buy-in, or something else? Tell me what you do. - Describe a moment where a session came alive because participants contributed. - Whats one co-creation risk you worry about? Be honest. How to make it feel co-created: - Group the tiles into themes live: Im seeing a pattern: time pressure, leadership expectations, and fear of losing control. - Then say: Great-these are our three design constraints. Lets build our co-creation plan around them. This is the magic: youre not guessing their reality-youre teaching directly from it.

Power Polls are your choose what happens next button. Instead of you deciding the flow, you let the room vote-and now everyone is invested in the path you take. Agenda-building poll ideas: - What do you want more of today? 1) Activities you can steal 2) Handling resistance 3) Designing co-creation prompts 4) Measuring engagement - Which co-creation moment do you want to practice? 1) Opening 2) Mid-session regroup 3) Debrief 4) Closing commitment Scenario-based poll ideas: - You ask for ideas and nobody answers-what do you do first? 1) Pair chat 2) Give examples 3) Use anonymous chat prompts 4) Switch to voting Pro move: Run a poll, teach the winning topic, then run a second poll: Do we want another example, a template, or a role-play? That loop makes the session feel like its moving with them, not ahead of them.

Every trainer knows the moment: you ask for a volunteer and suddenly everyone becomes a statue. Winner Wheel fixes that in a fun, fair way-especially if you frame it playfully. Ways to use it in Co-Creation training: - Drop IN in the chat if youre willing to role-play a participant. Im spinning the wheel. - Type one co-creation challenge you face. Well spin and coach one challenge live. - Everyone who contributed an idea goes into the wheel-winner picks which activity we do next. Why it works: - It rewards participation (people comment more because they might get picked). - It keeps things light. - It spreads airtime beyond the usual 23 talkers. Tip: You can choose winners from people who commented during a specific interaction-so its tied directly to the co-creation moment youre running.

Co-creation doesnt mean no structure. A quick Quiz keeps the learning tight-and its also a great way to correct misunderstandings before they become habits. Quiz questions you can use: - Which is the BEST example of co-creation? 1) Trainer picks all activities 2) Participants vote on which case study to use 3) Trainer asks any questions? at the end 4) Trainer shares a slide deck early (Correct: 2) - Whats the goal of co-creation in ILT? 1) Give up control 2) Increase ownership and relevance 3) Finish faster 4) Avoid planning (Correct: 2) How to run it well: - Ask the question, let them vote in chat. - Show results. - Then reveal the correct answer and ask: If you picked a different one-what were you thinking? Thats a learning moment and a co-creation moment at the same time.

Before you teach Co-Creation, co-create the starting point. Rating Polls let you ask one question and immediately see where the room is-without awkward silence or long explanations. Great Rating Poll prompts for this training: - On a scale of 110, how confident are you in facilitating co-creation with a group? - How often do you already use co-creation in your training? (1 = never, 10 = constantly) - How comfortable is your organization with letting learners shape the agenda? What you do with the result (this is where engagement jumps): - If scores are low: Cool, well build from the basics and do more practice. - If scores are high: Awesome-then well go advanced and youll help me pressure-test scenarios. That one moment tells participants, This session is being built with you, not just delivered at you.

In a live session, questions get buried in chat fast-especially when youre running activities. StreamAlive Q&A pulls questions out and displays them clearly, so you dont miss the good stuff. How to use it for Co-Creation ILT: - Start with: As we go, drop questions in chat anytime-StreamAlive will catch them. - Midway checkpoint: Lets pause and clear the top 3 questions before we build the next activity together. - Use questions as content: Im seeing three questions about resistance. Great-lets co-create a resistance playbook right now. Result: participants feel heard, and you stay in control of pacing without shutting down curiosity.

If youre doing co-creation, youll want to know what actually landed-not just what you *think* landed. StreamAlive Analytics shows you where chat spiked, which interactions pulled the most participation, and who your most engaged people were. How corporate trainers can use this right away: - Improve your design: Engagement jumped during Talking Tiles but dipped during my 12-minute explanation-next time Ill shorten that and add a prompt. - Prove value to stakeholders: Share interaction results and engagement moments via email reports. - Identify champions: Find your Fantastic Fans (your most engaged participants) and invite them to pilot future co-created sessions or help build internal facilitator communities. Best part: Youre not guessing whether you got engagement-youve got the receipts, minute by minute.