The Forrester Guide To Designing Effective Workshops

Organizations often turn to workshops to help their workforce — both within and across teams — tackle and resolve challenges. A well-designed workshop empowers participants to continue working productively long after their time together. So how do you ensure a successful workshop in the first place? As a facilitator, you need to shape the boundaries of the workshop and design its content to achieve the objectives. Follow four workshop design steps — contextualize, cocreate, confirm, and communicate — to understand your participants’ context, shape workshop goals, and choose activities that equip sponsors and participants to get the most out of the workshop.