Workshop Tactics

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c) Make the 7Ps visible during the meeting. These reference points can help focus and refocus a group as needed. It’s not just your team’s hopes and fears about a project that might surprise you; everyone will have their own unique assumptions. Some of these will be spot on, while others will be proven to be baseless as you progress. It was effortless like he was directing a play that we were all part of. His meetings were the talk of the office. It felt revolutionary, but they weren't really 'meetings'. He was running 'mini-workshops'. We didn't even realise that, because we were too busy getting stuff done. You don't have to determine what goes in these quadrants in the OKR workshop, but if you have time - it is worth establishing Health Metrics. "What aren't we measuring that, if we don't keep an eye on, could be detrimental to our team health?" Start with a big, open objective and then add enough detail so it’s completely clear what you want and how you’ll get there.First, you need to identify your target market for the workshop and then identify the message that will truly help your target market get to the next level. Take the time to put yourself in their shoes and ask yourself what is that they really need to know, what do they need to get the next level and what can I do to help them get there. These questions will help guide the flow, formality and framework of the workshop. Once that’s accomplished, you break out the basics: Using a set of questions (below), you can identify, prior to the session, any issues participants have related to the session. By understanding these issues in advance of your session, you can make adjustments to the process (and your language around the process) to ensure a successful day. Is the team I plan to bring together drawn from various level of the organizational structure (for example, managers, supervisors, technical analysts)? The Debriefing Cube is a debriefing set designed by Chris Caswell and Julian Kea with the goal of helping teams solidify their learnings after group sessions, games, or workshops. Each set consists of 61 cards, 4 dice, and either a wooden or paper box.

The "hero's journey" is a prevalent way to tell a story and emphasizes the end user as the story's hero. After empathising with your audience, you can use a Prototype persona workshopto predict who will use your product – what they look like, what drives their behaviours and what would solve their problems.Perhaps my favorite non-fiction book I’ve read, Well-Designed lays out a design thinking-centric approach for understanding how to frame user problems, build to those problems, and iterate on those ideas constantly. Filled with insight upon insight, it’s a great book for the team, especially given the recent considerations of building out the Student Journey Platform and moving to a more product-centered solution. 7P’s Framework Agree on specific numbers for each Key Result. You should feel like you have a fifty-fifty chance of achieving each one in the next quarter. Or maybe you’ve got your objectives down – but you don’t know how to achieve them, or what it will look like when you do. A workshop to help you plan how to reach your goals goes hand-in-hand with deciding what they are. Goal-setting workshop tactics Request: Agreement from participants that they arrive at least ten minutes prior to workshop start to allow for coffee (lots of coffee..) and greetings before the on-time start.

Target customer: write a descriptive name for your target customer. For example, aspiring facilitators. The MethodKit for Workshop Planning gives you 60 illustrated cards to plan your workshops. You can use them for brainstorming, planning, discussing, prioritizing, and evaluating your work.Agree on the desired end-state to work towards so daily activity is moving you in the right direction. Understand