How can i do workshop

The workshop environment should feel fluid and open to encourage dialogue among the team. My favorite tip is to find a larger room with a tall table in the center surrounded by high stools, so everyone can either sit or stand. This way, people sitting and standing are roughly at the same height — giving folks a sense of equality and flexibility at the same time. Take a look back at the goals you listed, and think about what activities you need to do in your workshop to achieve them.

Try to organize these activities into distinct chunks of your workshop. Assign a rough time estimate to each section, and as you plan out more of the details, you can go back and adjust the length of your workshop as needed.

Now your workshop is taking shape. People are coming to your workshop from a variety of other meetings, so while they might be physically present in the room, their mind might still be wandering from a previous discussion. In one workshop I participated in, even though the organizer had stated the goal of the session up front people were confused about what we were trying to do when we jumped into brainstorming cold, simply because they had been distracted at the start of the session.

We had to spend an extra five minutes backtracking to catch everyone up, and from there it took some more time gearing up to brainstorm out-of-the-box future concepts. Improv games are a great way to do this by energizing people and setting them up to be productive in your session. For instance, if one of your goals is to brainstorm future solutions to a problem, everyone in the room needs to be free of previous distractions and get to a place where they actually can do this — where they feel uninhibited and able to let their minds play.

Here are some of my favorite improv games to help everyone become present. A quick Google search will also bring up plenty more improv activities you can try. Running a good brainstorm is all about making people feel comfortable enough to toss around ideas. And so, no matter how experienced a group is, I always like to take a minute to go over some ground rules for brainstorming before we begin.

Even a quick run-through will get everyone on the same page and in the mood for a productive session together. Feel free to try these out for yourself in your next successful workshop. Ask questions and introduce constraints if people are stuck brainstorming; for example, what if we had a million dollars to solve this problem? What if we had to deliver it in two weeks? Depending on the group dynamics, sometimes I also find it helpful to split the brainstorming into two sections.

First, spend a few minutes getting everyone to write down their own ideas on Post-its, and then have them get up and share on a whiteboard. Continue to build on top of ideas standing around the whiteboard after everyone has a chance to share their initial thoughts.

Shek, one of our designers, sharing an idea in our brainstorm. Sketches are often the most tangible output from a design workshop, allowing everyone to explore concepts on their own.

The goal of sketching out ideas in a workshop though is to go for quantity, not quality. Anything goes. This is the time to let your ideas flow, unfettered, and get a braindump of all possibilities. As a rule of thumb, minutes of sketching time for an hour workshop is more than enough. Again, as the facilitator, encourage quantity over quality.

Have everyone put up their sketches on the wall, so the group can see all the ideas equally. Give a few minutes to each person to walk through what they came up with, and build in extra buffer time if possible to allow for conversation. Open-source learning programs like Moodle and Blackboard, which are free to use, can help to facilitate online discussions and postings outside of the workshop setting.

These web-based tools are also a great way for participants to submit homework or outside assignments online. Method 3. Set up the room or space to encourage discussion. Arrange the chairs in a horseshoe shape or a semi-circle to facilitate conversation and post the ground rules on a board or wall where all participants can see them.

Ensure a blank piece of paper on a board or wall, or a writing board, to brainstorm or document ideas and notes from the participants. Incorporate interactive activities into your workshop. Activities or games can increase engagement and participation. Activities may occur in small or large groups. Include a question-and-answer portion.

Depending on the ground rules of the workshop, invite participants to ask questions either throughout the workshop or in scheduled time slots. Your participants can be your friends, neighbors or anyone who is interested in your workshop.

Not Helpful 1 Helpful Esther Seib Shelley. Why do you feel you need a license? You don't need a license to run a workshop. If you want to train on something, all you need to do is demonstrate your authority why they should listen to you. That could be your doctorate training, or your business history, or something like that. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 6. If you are looking for a script overview, an good outline could be: 1.

It's such an honor for me to present Two years ago story I had this problem and that caused this issue for me! Leader name stepped right in and did etc and that really helped me mention the outcome of the solution you were given. Please join me in welcoming leader name! Start to clap. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. You don't need a license. You just need some credibility.

If you run a workshop on hormone balancing, you'd better be able to demonstrate why someone should listen to you! Have you written a book? Are you a Naturopathic doctor? Are you a holistic nutritionist? Are you a regular person who found your own way to help that you want to share with others?

Then explain that and tell your story. Those who have a similar issue may be interested enough to come hear you. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. This guide helps you plan, format and review a workshop to suit different learning styles.

So goes the saying, and it's very relevant here. If you don't know what you want people to learn, it will be very hard to design your training workshop. Think about your participants leaving the room at the end of the workshop.

They go back to their office and their boss says, "So what did you learn? Try to set 1 - 3 learning outcomes for a one-day workshop.

Instead of saying, "I want to teach people about potatoes," try to be clear:. This also makes it much easier to market your training workshop, as participants can easily decide if it's right for them. Who do you want to learn from your workshop? What level of knowledge do they already have about the topic? Do you know them, or are they strangers? People have different learning styles — some find it easier to learn through discussion, group exercises or using pictures, whereas others prefer to be lectured at, or given information to read themselves.

Even if your topic is a serious one, consider using humor to lighten the mood and get everyone comfortable with one another. Explain to your participants what the materials around the room are and what they should do with them. For example, you can ask people to fill out name-tags, grab a cup of coffee, and make sure they have their handouts.

If you would rather that your participants not pull out their readings or laptops right away, you can tell them when those materials will be needed. Begin icebreakers. Ask your participants to introduce themselves. Limit the introductions to a few sentences by asking everyone to answer two or three specific questions, such as their names and what they hope to gain from the workshop.

You don't want the icebreakers to go on forever, but it is important that your attendees feel comfortable talking in front of the group. You can also ask everybody to break the ice by answering a light-hearted question like "What is your favorite movie? Execute your lesson plan. This is when all of your careful preparations can be put into action. Have your outline in front of you, and try to stick to the outline if you can.

Feel free to tell your participants directly what you are doing and why. Your lesson plan doesn't have to be a surprise, and your participants might appreciate being told why you've organized the workshop in the way that you did.

For example, you might tell them: "First we are going to go over our case studies to make sure we understand their nuances. After that, we will divide into small groups to determine an ideal solution to the problem. After I explain these terms, we'll take a quiz to make sure we are on the same page. After that, we will open things up for discussion. In a few minutes, you will role-play a counselor-student interaction with your partner.

Be flexible. It is good to have a plan for your workshop, but be prepared to alter your workshop's content based on the reactions and experiences of the participants. Build some flex time into your lesson plan so that you can address their questions, concerns, and interests. This will allow you to focus on what really matters and skip over redundant or unnecessary content. Use interactive exercises to reinforce information. Always follow up the delivery of information with the reinforcement of that information through some kind of group activity.

Interactive group work is a particularly effective method to teach problem-solving techniques. Let them teach each other at the same time that you are teaching them. For example, you can: Deliver information in short spurts and then allow participants to ask questions.

Divide participants into groups to complete a task and ask them to report back to the entire group. Show a video clip and then ask pairs of participants to discuss their reactions. Provide advice about how to handle a difficult situation and then ask small groups of participants to role-play the scenario. Have an expert demonstrate a technique and then ask your students to take a collaborative quiz about the technique. Don't talk too much. You do not want to micromanage every stage of the workshop.

Your participants might get bored or annoyed. Stick to your scheduled breaks. Scheduling breaks helps people assimilate the information and reflect. Let participants know how often they will get breaks and the lengths of the breaks.

This allows workshop attendees to plan accordingly for restroom usage, phone calls and other personal needs. Do not skip breaks, even if you are running short on time. Switch up activities every minutes. Attention spans begin to wane after 20 minutes of the same activity.

View this fact as an opportunity for creativity instead of as a problem. Change up your activities, ask your participants to rearrange their chairs, or schedule a break at least once every minutes to keep everyone engaged and motivated. Lighten the mood. Even if you are treating a serious topic, humor can be a great way to emphasize information and keep everyone attentive. This will also encourage your participants to remain relaxed, alert, and comfortable. Maintain a respectful, democratic atmosphere.

Make sure that all of your workshop participants are treated equally and respectfully. This means that any leadership roles such as group discussion leader should be distributed evenly across the workshop. Encourage quiet, shy participants to speak. You want everyone to feel heard and respected. Similarly, you do not want a single participant's voice or your own voice for that matter to dominate the discussion. Be prepared for the unexpected. Most workshops will run smoothly. After all, the participants presumably want to be there and want to learn.

However, there might be scenarios where somebody is unwilling to participate or might be insulting to a colleague. Be professional no matter what, and encourage respectful behavior by modeling respectful behavior. If you have a participant who is acting up or trying to bully a colleague, consider speaking privately with that person.

Emphasize the importance of what you are teaching, and tell them that you expect adult, professional behavior from them. Conclude the workshop with a summary of what they have learned. Explain everything that your participants have learned over the course of the session.

This will help emphasize how far they have come and what new skills they have acquired. Refer explicitly to the objectives you laid out at the beginning of the workshop, and explain how you think the participants have met those objectives.

Congratulate your workshop for their hard work and for their new knowledge. Part 4. Get feedback immediately after the session. Design an evaluation form that your participants can fill out in the last few minutes of the workshop. Be sure that you leave them with enough time to comment and consider your questions carefully. Immediate feedback not only will help you improve your workshop but will also help reinforce the learning your participants have undertaken.

Did the workshop meet its stated objective? What activities helped your learning the most? The least? Was the workshop an appropriate length? What workshop materials handouts, readings, quizzes, etc. Which ones were the least useful? How have you learned or grown from this workshop?