Your coaching sessions feel like boring monologues, and you want to change things up. But you have too much on your plate. Between planning and hosting actual conversations with participants, you have little or no time to brainstorm and create interactive coaching activities from scratch to engage your audience.
Luckily, you don’t have to. With Beekast, you get access to numerous coaching activities and templates that can be added to your sessions in a few clicks. We talked to some coaches and trainers who already use our meeting management software to learn which Beekast activities they enjoy the most.
In this article, we’ll discuss their top five picks.
1. MCQ quizzes: Best For Group Coaching and Workshops
MCQ quizzes are a great way to assess and engage with participants during coaching sessions.
You ask a question, and participants choose the right answer from the limited options. Each question has a countdown timer, meaning the participants must answer it before time runs out. At the end of the countdown, a leaderboard shows the results, highlighting the participants who gave the right answers.
You can use the MCQ activity at the beginning of your coaching sessions to gauge participants’ knowledge of the topic and introduce the discussion, during the lecture to collect real-time feedback from participants, or at the end of the session to test participants’ knowledge.
Try Beekast’s MCQ activity for free
2. Kanban Boards: Best For Brainstorming Sessions
A kanban board helps you to collect and organize ideas during group discussions and coaching sessions.
It’s a great way to encourage participation, especially from people who aren’t confident to share ideas, suggestions, or feedback verbally. That way, every participant can contribute, making your classes more alive!
For example, let’s say you want to choose a topic for the next coaching session. In that case, you can ask participants to send their suggestions in the form of virtual sticky notes on the board. You can group similar topic ideas together and then take a vote to decide which one to use.
Try Beekast’s kanban board for free
3. Wordle/Word Cloud: Best Icebreaker For Coaching and Training Sessions
Coaching is serious business, and participants can be pretty anxious at the beginning. To ease that tension, consider kicking things off with a Word Cloud icebreaker.
Word Cloud is pretty straightforward. You ask questions like, “How are you feeling today?” and participants input a single word or emoji in response. These responses appear as a cloud on your Beekast meeting slide. If multiple participants send the same word, it will appear bigger and move towards the center of the slide.
You can repeat this exercise multiple times during the session to check how participants feel and lighten the mood.
4. Challenge: Best For Gamified Coaching
Bring more excitement to your coaching sessions by hosting gamified challenges. These could be quizzes based on the topic of the discussion or general trivia questions.
The participants earn points for answering each question correctly within the given time. At the end of the quiz, the top three participants are celebrated on a leaderboard. You can even add the points for each session and announce an ultimate winner at the end of your coaching program.
Create a challenge with Beekast
5. Selfie Wall: Best For Engaging Coaching Participants
Want to create fun memories during your coaching program? Try a selfie wall.
It’s pretty easy to create one. All you need to do is ask participants to share their photos during the session. Whatever they share will be added to the slide. At the end of the day, you’ll have a beautiful mosaic of images to share as a memento.
You can use selfie walls as icebreakers for your sessions. However, we think they are better suited for closing your coaching program — giving participants something to remember. If you like, you can create selfie walls at the beginning and end of the program to capture participants’ progress in a more exciting way.
Create a selfie wall with Beekast
Why use Beekast for coaching?
Beekast is the best online meeting software for coaches. It offers:
- Interactive activities and templates that will make your coaching sessions more engaging and collaborative — plus a ton of other exciting features.
- Easy-to-use software that you can set up with little or no tech skills. Participants can join your coaching session with a simple code.
- 24/7 support to help you resolve any issues or challenges that may come up.
- Affordable and flexible pricing plans suited for every budget.
Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what coaches and trainers like you say about using Beekast.
“I like that I can use this tool to assign at-home assignments students can complete on their own. With Beekast, I can check up on student progress and track their level of engagement throughout the session. I really enjoy getting student feedback in real-time, thanks to the rating activity and some of the templates offered by Beekast. It’s so efficient and user-friendly!”
Now, it’s time to try things for yourself. Get started with a free Beekast account or book a demo — we’ll be happy to show you around anytime!