Complete Guide to Workshop Planning

Have a workshop to plan but unsure how to turn your concept into a completed agenda?

Have a tough challenge to solve but unsure how to design a process that will achieve results?

Want to start facilitating with confidence?

Improve your workshop planning and facilitation skills!

Learn a proven four-step process for designing workshops that engage participants and deliver impactful outcomes.

We’ll share how to effectively define your goals, craft your agenda, organize logistics, and facilitate your workshops with confidence!

Who is the workshop planning guide PDF for?

The foundation for a successful workshop is a combination of great planning and effective facilitation. Often, the person running a session is a team leader or major stakeholder with experience leading collaborative processes.

In many cases, the best person to run a workshop is a facilitator: someone whose job it is to design effective processes and engage participants in pursuit of a shared goal.

At SessionLab, we believe that with practice, the right tools and a facilitation mindset, anyone can run a workshop!

This step-by-step guide is a great way to develop and improve these skills and by following this process, you’ll have everything you need to design and run your next workshop with confidence.

When should I use this guide?

A successful workshop will be one in which everyone in the group will have learned something, or be on the way to creating transformation in their organization, team or project.

There is much more to running a successful workshop than the delivery phase, when you actually stand in front of the group and lead activities.

So much happens before, after and behind the scenes in order to make the session a success. Effectively planning your workshop and designing the best possible agenda is the foundation on which everything else is built.

But what’s the best way to get started? What steps should you follow to take an idea or brief and turn it into a completed workshop?

Download this guide to learn a step-by-step approach to planning a workshop that will help you run more effective, engaging sessions.

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