The Workshop Book

Based on methods developed and proven in business, this highly visual and practical book will show readers how to design, lead and run effective workshops.

IF YOU NEED TO RUN A WORKSHOP, THE WORKSHOP BOOK CONTAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED. Workshops are one of the best ways of harnessing the intelligence and creativity of any team. Successful workshops are surprisingly easy if you combine the right preparation with proven tools and techniques. With The Workshop Book, you'll discover: - The tools you need to design and lead successful workshops, including virtual workshops, online workshops, and hybrid workshops. - Ways to keep teams focused, engaged, and motivated, whether you're running remote workshops, international workshops, or asynchronous workshops. - How to structure sessions to generate maximum productivity in a limited session, perfect for sequential workshops and global workshops. - The inspiration and creativity to generate great ideas for any industry or brief, making your workshops accessible and inclusive for diverse and neurodiverse teams. - Tips and tricks on how you can add your own flair to your workshops, fostering co-creation, innovation, and ideation during strategy workshops and away day workshops. No matter what your level of workshop experience, you can design and lead a whole variety of workshops to get the best out of any team.

Autorentext

Pam Hamilton is the author of Supercharged Teams: 30 Tools of Great Teamwork and The Workshop Book. She is a Capabilities, Teamwork, Workshops, Innovation and Insights expert, and has developed a proven public sector co-creation method called Project Bridge to bring people and organisations together to solve complex issues in our communities. 

Zusammenfassung

IF YOU NEED TO RUN A WORKSHOP, THE WORKSHOP BOOK CONTAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED. Workshops are one of the best ways of harnessing the intelligence and creativity of any team. Successful workshops are surprisingly easy if you combine the right preparation with proven tools and techniques. With The Workshop Book, you'll discover:

• The tools you need to design and lead successful workshops, including virtual workshops, online workshops, and hybrid workshops.

• Ways to keep teams focused, engaged, and motivated, whether you're running remote workshops, international workshops, or asynchronous workshops.

• How to structure sessions to generate maximum productivity in a limited session, perfect for sequential workshops and global workshops.

• The inspiration and creativity to generate great ideas for any industry or brief, making your workshops accessible and inclusive for diverse and neurodiverse teams.

• Tips and tricks on how you can add your own flair to your workshops, fostering co-creation, innovation, and ideation during strategy workshops and away day workshops.

  No matter what your level of workshop experience, you can design and lead a whole variety of workshops to get the best out of any team.

  Inhalt

1. An Introduction to Workshops
2. The Workshop Approach
3. Setting the Workshop Objective
4. Who to Invite to your Workshop
5. Priming the Workshop Participants
6. The Workshop Set-Up
7. The Workshop Leader
8. Workshop Behaviours
9. Managing Difficult Behaviours
10. Workshop Energy
11. Basic Workshop Tools
12. Bring a Topic to Life change title to Immersion Workshops
13. Creating Quick Ideas
14. Creating Ideas that build on Past Successes
15. Improving Existing Ideas
16. Creating New Directions
17. Creating a New Story about something Old
18. How to Create New Names
19. Customer Needs Workshops
20. Roadmaps
21. Alignment
22. Action Planning
23. Defining Purpose
24. Working Better Together
25. Influencing Senior Leadership Positively
26. Positive Turnaround
27. Team Updates
28. Team Building
29. Regular team meetings
30. Capability workshops
31. Review Workshops
32. Debrief Workshops
33. Virtual Workshops
34. Multilingual Workshops
35. Workshop Outputs
36. Artificial Intelligence in workshops