The Workshop Book

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

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.