Shared Book Insights Workshop
You know those times when you've read a fantastic book, and you wish everyone on your team would read it – and apply the learning to the business?
This session guide lays out a process to reduce the heavy task of reading a book alone to the lighter job of a shared effort. Information from the book and the ideas it inspires are applied to the company – all in just 120 minutes.
Objectives
- Facilitate Shared Learning. Foster a collaborative environment where participants can collectively explore and extract insights from a selected book, leveraging the power of shared knowledge.
- Apply Learning to Business. Enable participants to apply the ideas and concepts from the selected book directly to your company, bridging the gap between theory and practical implementation.
- Ignite Innovation and Change. Inspire innovative thinking and drive meaningful change within your organization by incorporating the book's transformative ideas into your company's practices, strategies, and decision-making processes.
- Foster a Culture of Continuous Learning. Cultivate a mindset of ongoing growth and improvement, encouraging participants to embrace continuous learning and apply new knowledge to enhance their professional development and organizational success.
The book you choose to read together is entirely up to you. The workshop is designed to adapt to any type of non-fiction book of any length.
Instructions
The Shared Book Insights Workshop is a versatile program that can be delivered in various contexts:
- Team Building Events: Incorporate the workshop as a team-building activity to foster collaboration, spark new directions and insights, and deepen the connections among team members.
- Leadership Retreats: Enhance leadership development initiatives by introducing the workshop, providing leaders with valuable insights and practical strategies to implement
shared book reading within their respective teams. - Professional Development Days: Integrate the workshop into scheduled professional development days to optimize learning opportunities and provide a fresh perspective to participants.
- Strategy and Planning Sessions: Deliver the workshop prior to, or at the onset of strategy and planning sessions to infuse innovative ideas and inspire creative thinking, aligning new ideas with the organization’s goals.
- Change Management Initiatives: Support change management efforts by leveraging the workshop to introduce new concepts, generate buy-in, and empower employees to embrace and apply the necessary changes.
- Team Development Programs: Include the workshop as part of ongoing team development programs to encourage continuous learning and foster a culture of shared knowledge and growth.
Tailored to your needs, this workshop can be run in person or virtually, ensuring accessibility and convenience for participants.
Who can facilitate it?The Shared Book Insights Workshop can be facilitated by a range of individuals, including team leaders, project managers, skilled professional facilitators, or anyone capable of guiding a session effectively. Prior knowledge of the selected book is not required.
The workshop is specifically designed to tap into the individual insights and ideas of the participants, rather than relying heavily on group discussions. Each participant shares their unique perspectives and learnings from the book, and the session focuses on collectively examining and identifying patterns that are relevant to the business.
While it involves minimal discussion, the facilitator’s role is to create a supportive environment for participants to download their ideas and guide the team in extracting valuable insights from the book’s content.
This template was the winner of the “Most innovative workshop design” award in the April 2023 innovative workshop design contest organized by SessionLab and the NeverDoneBefore community.