{"id":361,"date":"2020-02-20T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qualitypush.com\/w\/2020\/02\/20\/if-you-moderate-a-workshop\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:44:05","slug":"simple-workshop-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qualitypush.com\/w\/2020\/02\/20\/simple-workshop-design\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple design for a good workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Moderators, team leads, scrum masters – no matter what you are, if you moderate a workshop, please don’t do it like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Typical design for bad workshops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have attended to a couple of workshops that started with goals but in the end the results were not achieved goals but utter chaos and a lot of new todos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshops should facilitate a team to work on something. They are not meant to create random new homework. Some managers define a good workshop as „a lot of todos are created and assigned to people to do them by a certain day (who does what by when)“. But many team members would like to see a workshop where decisions are made, problems are solved and work gets better instead of bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple way to keep them working towards a goal and focus their energy is this:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By making goals, methods and concrete, desired key results transparent from the beginning, you avoid confusion and focus energy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Just hang the templates on the wall for everybody to see right from the beginning. And hang a blank template for the desired outcome next to it: „Guys, this is what we will fill out at the end of the workshop. This will be your result“. <\/strong>Then discuss if the results template really is what they need. And if the methods you brought, really work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is no rocket science. But thousands of people per day, sitting in meetings and workshops would be very happy if their moderator followed that simple design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moderators, team leads, scrum masters – no matter what you are, if you moderate a workshop, please don’t do it like this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,248],"tags":[64,16,65,63,62,60],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-simple-workshopdesigns","tag-agenda","tag-facilitation","tag-focus","tag-goals","tag-method","tag-workshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/qualitypush.com\/w\/2020\/02\/04\/the-right-to-remain-silent\/","url_meta":{"origin":361,"position":0},"title":"The right to remain silent","author":"Patrick","date":"4. 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