Why we love them: The cards follow the famous SCAMPER creativity method coined by Bob Eberle. This theory assumes that all innovative breakthroughs come from at least one of these principles:

Avoid giving advice. As a facilitator, your goal is to be as objective as possible. Think of a facilitator as a referee in a sports match, ensuring the rules are abided by so everyone has an equal chance to contribute. This position puts you in a place of authority within the room. If you give advice with statements like “I would” or “if I were you,” then the workshop output and decision making will become yours, rather than the group’s. Keep any advice oriented around the process, not around the content, and use phrases like “at this point in the process I usually recommend…” or “it could be helpful to…” Of course you can’t predict everything that might stand in your way, but the processes of trying to can be illuminating… take a look at these exploratory workshop techniques to help you better understand your mission. Just choose the right one for your team and follow the link for step-by-step instructions. Workshops that help you promote great team ties Roles & Responsibilities workshop On a large surface, such as a whiteboard, create a column for each discipline within the team. For example: Designer, Developer and Product Owner. Is the team I plan to bring together drawn from various level of the organizational structure (for example, managers, supervisors, technical analysts)? This workshop is a structured and intense set of exercises that requires full attention. As such, we have a few rules that we like to communicate to clients (and internal participants) to ensure success:Shuffle, mix and match the cards to spark fresh insights, then use the critical evaluation techniques to test and refine your creative ideas into realistic and feasible solutions. I've learnt that there's only three levels of pricing: Premium, free or Introductory Pricing. The psychology around introductory is that it rewards loyalty to customers, but then after a certain date, the price increases permanently. You start with your current context and one specific goal and explore options for achieving them – before committing your names to an action plan. There are far too many cards to go over, so I'd like to give a brief overview of the three that I've found the most useful. Sailboat Be authentic to you and your knowledge. This principle is two-fold: be authentic to who you are and what you know. When facilitating, you may feel like you need to act like the stereotypical facilitator personality — outgoing and energetic. However, there is no one personality type that makes for the best facilitator. Each facilitator has her own style, from reserved to bubbly to stern and straightforward. The best style is whatever is most authentic to who you are. Second, be honest with what you know. Your job as a facilitator is to be an expert in the process, not in the content. If you don’t know something related to the content of the workshop, don’t be afraid to say so. Suggest a process or activity that can help the group answer the question at hand.

Starting out, heading your business in a new direction, or just looking to firm up your goals? A goal-setting workshop exercise brings clarity, direction and purpose. It’s a bonding exercise for your team, and gives them a clear picture of your group priorities. Then you end up in a better place, ready to take on the next challenge with everything you've learned. Show and tell‍ This is a fun little exercise to nail down your teams' goals and what sort of things are stopping them from being achieved.

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Beyond the basic cards for each section, there are also session cards that contain many cards for longer sessions that can take 3-4 hours. Is the team cross-functional and representative of all the groups with a major stake in the outcome? and that was my lightbulb moment. Not only curating the best workshops into one place but giving guidance on exactly the most appropriate time to use them. However, with Workshop Tactics, there is only a small print run. I did not want to skimp on quality. I wanted to design something so good that when you hold it, you are in awe. To make something lesser to meet an “affordable” price is not something I was prepared to do. A Sailboat workshophelps you and your team to truly visualise your goals out on the horizon, and all of the obstacles that might keep you from reaching them. It’s also a great way to build bonds within and between teams, as well as with the wider organisation and other stakeholders.

b. Sprint Brief — The Sprint Brief is a more detailed version of the Workshop Brief that you prepared for the initial workshop. This would lay out the specific opportunity that you’d like to solve for in a bigger, weeklong design sprint, as well as laying out your vision for what that week may look like. 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. 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. ii. the expected outcome of the opportunity (i.e., if you are successful, what will the client/team take away from this?); Sprint Guide: The Guide takes as an input the Workshop Brief that you built to socialize client buy-in and align team expectations, and uses this to create a series of slides that will be presented out to the Workshop Team as the first activity of the workshop day. The presentation format forces the facilitator to keep it high-level enough for everyone to understand, but specific enough to guide the various activities that will make up the workshop day. Post-Workshop

How to run a Roles & Responsibilities workshop

c) Make the 7Ps visible during the meeting. These reference points can help focus and refocus a group as needed. In the age of the internet, there is too much information. If you want to find the best workshops, you have to sift through a lot of noise to find them.