Workshop Design

Designing and Delivering Workshops That Produce Real Output Not Just Captured Discussion

Workshop design and delivery frameworks to build group experiences backward from a specific required output so that what the session produces justifies the organizational time it consumed.

If you have any of these questions:

• How do I design a workshop that solves a real business problem rather than generating good discussion?
• How do I make a workshop produce real output rather than post-it notes nobody acts on?
• How do I run an effective workshop without being a professional facilitator?
• What is the best structure for a half-day workshop that needs to produce a strategic decision?

Then the Workshop Design segment gives you what you need:

• Define the specific output the workshop must produce before designing any element of the agenda or the activities.
• Build workshop agendas backward from the required output so every session element serves the decision rather than filling the time.
• Design the physical and virtual environment that supports productive group work rather than undermining it before the conversation starts.
• Maintain workshop quality and output when the group is resistant, divided, or the stakes are too high for the conversation to stay comfortable.
• Evaluate what your workshops actually produced and improve the design based on evidence rather than the energy in the room on the day.

Are your workshops generating high-energy conversation and thin output because they were designed around a format rather than a specific required decision? Then Workshop Design and Delivery is where you start.