Workshop recipes

Many workshops, exercises and training courses follow a recipe and a model. This recipe is good to follow so that you don't forget important points, main messages, dialogue, involvement, testing, plan, underlines, brainstorming, etc.

Here are a number of recipes that you can follow slavishly or change completely according to your wishes. The recipes also recommend some tools that you can download or purchase.

The purpose of a workshop/course is for the participants to learn more together on a specific topic or issue.

The topic can be, for example, getting better at AI, serving customers, managing employees, using spreadsheets, generating keywords and website texts, etc.

The topic can also be, for example, making new internal agreements about collaboration, about culture, about saying what you want to do and doing what you say, about prejudices, about retaliation, about the plan for a good meeting.

No matter what the topic, you can put together a plan that inspires, motivates, and gets participants so excited that they actually start using the new information and even tell others about their new insights.

Invite them

All events, meetings, courses, parties, etc. start with an invitation.

'I would be happy to see you on Thursday at 3 pm for an informal meeting.'

You can reveal more or less about the content. It can be too detailed and it can also be too undetailed. The invitation should contain enough information to make people want to show up and even look forward to it. If there is a requirement to attend, you should also write that. But that is why the meeting can be both fun and serious.

There are countless ways to invite. Email, SMS, phone, letter, fireworks, a short film. Find a proportion that suits or surprises appropriately.

Synchronize them

I once arrived at a lecture where about 300 people who did not know each other showed up.

Outside the door stood a man with a basket full of eggs, rhythm eggs it was. The man welcomed me and gave me an egg. I walked into the room and there was a fairly large group of people making a rhythm with their rhythm eggs. I didn't want to stand out, so I started to beat the same rhythm with my egg. Suddenly I was part of the group. As I sat down, I looked around. There was nothing but smiles and nods and recognition. We all sat like that until a person stepped forward and began the presentation, which was about something with presentations.

A fantastic start. A synchronizing start. Synchronization can take a myriad of forms. Shake hands with everyone at the entrance. Start with a song. A countdown. A quick name-calling round. People and employees and children and guests and visitors are always individuals when they arrive. If you, as a manager, want them to be a group, then you have to synchronize them. Everything gets easier from here.

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