Not Another Workshop!

Life is too short to waste on unproductive workshops and draining meetings. We've all sat through workshops and meetings that drag. Perhaps participants were overwhelmed by "zoom fatigue" or there were plenty of opinions but no agreed way forward. This book provides a fail-safe methodology to address these common pitfalls and design and host workshops and meetings that produce real business outcomes. Created by a leading workshop training provider, the POISED methodology consists of six practical steps—Purpose, Outcomes, Identify question, Stakeholders, Exercises and Detailed plan—that enable business leaders to design highly collaborative and productive sessions. With the tools and techniques provided in this book, you will be able to utilise online, in-person and hybrid workshop and meeting toolkits define realistic and measurable outcomes for the session that achieve buy-in from participants and deliver business value design a logical agenda for the session that includes time for action planning leverage collaborative exercises that give everyone a voice (with 30 online workshop exercises included to help you hit the ground running) understand the key skills required to facilitate an effective session and how these can be developed follow up after the workshop to maintain momentum and make a real impact This comprehensive guide is essential for those inside a business seeking to collaborate with other employees, teams, customers, partners or suppliers to produce transformative outcomes.