The Workshop Book

How to design and lead successful workshops

Pamela Hamilton

Publisher: Pearson, 2016, 218 pages

ISBN: 978-1-292-11970-0

Keywords: Human Resources

Last modified: Oct. 31, 2022, 12:29 p.m.

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
  • Ways to keep teams focused, engaged and motivated
  • How to structure sessions to generate maximum productivity in a limited session
  • The inspiration and creativity to generate great ideas for any industry or brief
  • Tips and tricks on how you can add your own flair to your 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.

    1. An introduction to workshops
  • Design: Designing your workshop
    1. The workshop approach
    2. Setting the workshop objective
    3. Who to invite to your workshop
    4. Priming the workshop participants
    5. The workshop set-up
  • Lead: Leading your workshop
    1. The workshop leader
    2. Workshop behaviours
    3. Managing difficult behaviours
    4. The workshop energy
  • Action: Putting workshops into action
    1. Basic workshop tools
    2. Bringing a topic to life
    3. Creating quick ideas
    4. Creating ideas that build on past successes
    5. Improving existing ideas
    6. Creating new directions
    7. Creating a story about something old
    8. How to create new names
    9. Customer needs workshops
    10. Roadmaps
    11. Alignment
    12. Action planning
    13. Defining purpose
    14. Working better together
    15. Influencing senior leadership positively
    16. Positive turnaround
    17. Team updates
    18. Team building
    19. Regular team meetings
    20. Review workshops
    21. Debrief workshops
    22. Virtual workshops
    23. Multilingual workshops
    24. Workshop outputs
  • Tools list

Reviews

The Workshop Book

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Decent ****** (6 out of 10)

Last modified: Nov. 12, 2023, 1:43 a.m.

Again, an overview of how to plan and lead generic workshops. The added bonus in this book is that  approx. three-fourths of the book is dedicated to discuss different types of workshops with tips and tricks tailored for these scenarios.

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