Design for relevance
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 9:05AM When we bring people together to collaborate, co-design and solve problems, we must consider how to help them do their best work.
We’re so bad at meetings - and boring ones - that our bad meeting culture gets transferred and stretched into longer sessions like workshops.
We don’t just have boring meetings for an hour; we end up having boring workshops for 3-hours!
So many of the leaders I train in better facilitation skills want to know about fun games for their workshops. They soon realize the best activities are those that actually help us do the work we are there to do.
Careful you don’t waste time, energy and participant engagement on games that might be high on fun, but end up being low on relevance and results.
It is possible to design agendas and activities for workshops that are interesting, engaging, creative ... and help get the work done too!
Don’t be distracted by the pursuit of cute; you could completely miss out on designing for relevance and results.
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