5 secrets for successful workshops
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This document outlines 5 secrets for successful workshops: 1) Start with a collaboration mindset, 2) Practice the four key skills of asking good questions, listening, dealing with ambiguity, and synthesizing, 3) Keep workshops simple by avoiding issues like dominating participants and groupthink, 4) Plan your follow-up before designing the workshop, and 5) Think about the user experience by considering outcomes, activities, participants, and how participants will feel. The document provides tips for each section, such as using brainstorming rules and individual thinking time.
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5 secrets for successful workshops
- 1. 5 secrets for successful workshops @alisoncoward
- 3. This is not a talk about workshop activities
- 7. “Facilitation is a necessary design skill …designers are not the sole creators – there are too many moving parts, too much specialized knowledge necessary to fully appreciate a situation. Designers need to facilitate the creative output of others throughout the organization…” Peter Merholz (@peterme)
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- 9. 1 Start with a collaboration mindset
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- 11. 2 Four key skills underpin great workshops
- 14. Asking good questions & curiosity Crafting good questions Open-ended questions – why, how, what ‘Stupid’ questions What if…? questions
- 17. Asking good questions & curiosity Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity
- 18. Asking good questions & curiosity Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
- 19. Asking good questions & curiosity Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity Get comfortable with being uncomfortable “Sailing through the fog” IDEO
- 20. Asking good questions & curiosity Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity
- 21. Listening & empathy Asking good questions & curiosity SynthesisingDealing with ambiguity
- 22. Listening & empathy Asking good questions & curiosity SynthesisingDealing with ambiguity Maria Popova (@brainpicker) on Combinatorial Creativity “To create is to combine existing bits of insight, knowledge, ideas, and memories into new material and new interpretations of the world, to connect the seemingly dissociated, to see patterns where others see chaos” Smithsonian Mag, “Combinatorial Creativity and the Myth of Originality”
- 23. Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity Asking good questions & curiosity Synthesising
- 24. Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity Asking good questions & curiosity Synthesising
- 25. Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity Asking good questions & curiosity Synthesising
- 26. Listening & empathy Dealing with ambiguity Asking good questions & curiosity Synthesising
- 27. Listening & empathy Asking good questions & curiosity SynthesisingDealing with ambiguity
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- 29. 3 Keep it simple
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- 32. !!! Introverts vs extroverts Senior people dominating the conversation
- 33. !!! Introverts vs extroverts Senior people dominating the conversation Group think
- 34. !!! Introverts vs extroverts Senior people dominating the conversation Group think Discussion going off track
- 36. Alex Osborn’s brainstorming rules 1. Focus on quantity 2. Withhold criticism 3. Welcome unusual ideas 4. Combine and improve ideas
- 38. Brainstorm in 15-minute cycles max “Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration” Leigh Thomson
- 39. Individual thinking time “Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration” Leigh Thomson
- 40. Manage feedback
- 41. Craft a really good question
- 42. Craft a really good question
- 43. Craft a really good question
- 44. Craft a really good question
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- 46. 4 Plan your follow-up before you design your workshop
- 48. workshop
- 52. Decide how you’ll document the workshop
- 53. Decide how you’ll document the workshop Schedule time for the write-up
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- 55. 5 Think about the user experience
- 57. Workshop design process Function: what are the final outcomes?
- 58. Workshop design process Function: what are the final outcomes? Form: the exercises and activities you run
- 59. Workshop design process Function: what are the final outcomes? Form: the exercises and activities you run Users: participants and how they’ll experience it
- 60. How should a participant feel? Engaged and connected Understand the purpose Autonomous Progress
- 61. Designing the workshop experience
- 62. Designing the workshop experience What constraints will you provide?
- 63. Designing the workshop experience What constraints will you provide? How will you use the room?
- 64. Designing the workshop experience What constraints will you provide? How will you use the room? How will you use materials?
- 65. Designing the workshop experience What constraints will you provide? How will you use the room? How will you use materials? What do you want your participants to produce?
- 67. 1. Start with a collaboration mindset
- 68. 1. Start with a collaboration mindset 2. Practice the four key skills
- 69. 1. Start with a collaboration mindset 2. Practice the four key skills 3. Keep it simple
- 70. 1. Start with a collaboration mindset 2. Practice the four key skills 3. Keep it simple 4. Plan your follow-up first
- 71. 1. Start with a collaboration mindset 2. Practice the four key skills 3. Keep it simple 4. Plan your follow-up first 5. Think about the user experience
- 72. Thank you @alisoncoward www.bracketcreative.co.uk Icons: The Noun Project – TMD, Nicolas Morand, Emily Haasch, Oliviu Stolan, BenPixels, Christoph Robausch, Kevin Augustine, iconsmind.com Illustrations: Gabija Jankauskaite (Get more tips and resources)