| Title | : | The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time |
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| ISBN | : | 1071344374 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 1071344374 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | and 2 more , Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 pages |
| Publication | : | 4,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) |
Need to run a workshop? Your attendees are trusting you with their time and attention. What are you giving them in return?
Most workshops don't work. They fail to deliver real results and they fail to keep the audience energetic and engaged. They're stressful to run and painful to attend.
Designing and running a brilliant workshop is easier than you think. It's not about flashy showmanship or natural charisma. Instead, it's about following a set of clear, simple rules for structuring and arranging the day.
Discover and use key design principles such as: Naturally refresh and maintain the audience's attention and energy by alternating the "teaching format" (e.g. lecture, small group discussion, hands on practice) every 20 minutes and making strategic use of good breaksDramatically improve your educational impact by choosing an exercise which is properly matched to the type of knowledge/skill/wisdom currently being taughtSave dozens of hours by beginning your design process with a simple "skeleton" of Learning Outcomes and timings rather than jumping straight into slides and materialsFinish on time, every time, by intentionally designing flexible "schedule springs" into your session, allowing you to seamlessly adjust to delays and bad luck, and to ensure that everyone learns what they came for without running lateThe first half of the book covers everything you'll need to know about designing and refining the session itself. With a good design in hand, teaching a brilliant workshop goes from arduous to nearly automatic.
The second half of the book shifts from ahead of time design to day of facilitation.
Learn the essential facilitation needed to solve unexpected problems and run a smooth, stress free workshop: Reliable tools and tactics for crowd control, recovering attention, and shifting between tasks (without feeling like you're fighting against your audience)Clear guidance for picking the best room setup, and also improving a "bad" room to make the most of itSpotting and problem solving the six major types of "difficult" attentees who are being either accidentally or intentionally disruptive (including the most common issue of bringing a hostile expert onto your side)Checklists and reminders of what to bring, what to do, and when to do it, in order to ensure that nothing gets forgotten, overlooked, or lostAt no point in the book will we ask you to "put on a big smile" or "project confidence". That's fluffy BS which doesn't work. Instead, we'll give you clear, concrete tools for managing a crowd and seamlessly guiding everyone to an effective outcome.
Why we're the right authors to help you succeedOver the last 15 years, we've designed and run a huge number of successful workshops (and a few major flops) covering every type of audience: executives, undergrads, MBAs, disadvantaged youths, busy professionals, and . We've designed everything from 20 minute teasers to 3 month intensives, in locations ranging from Costa Rica and Qatar to London and Berlin.
We've taught for companies like HP and Deloitte and for universities like Oxford and NYU. We've built workshops for every price point, from free upskilling (paid for by the state or employer) through to $4000 per seat premium events. We've taught casual sessions, with beer in hand and flip flop on foot, through to formal, posh affairs with glitzy venues and high end catering. In every case, no matter where it was located or who it was for, the process outlined in these pages worked.
Perhaps most importantly, we can teach you how to do this. We've trained up teachers from scratch who are now billing upwards of $5000 per day and getting invited back to teach again and again. This stuff isn't complicated.
The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time Reviews
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If you work in teams that conduct meetings that persuade, sell or collaborate you will find immediate training value in this book. If you run and design workshops, you're going to love it. I kept going through the book over the space of a week as the storytelling is fun, digestible and useful whilst I was also getting the key educational points in the chapters of the book. Some of the points are obvious when you read them, however I've sat in many rooms with professional who still make the same mistakes and impact their audience negatively. Even if you feel like a pro, I'd recommend picking the book up and sense checking your approach.
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This is OK, but there are better books. It would be over priced at half the price
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Powerful little book full of ‘oh riiiiight’ moments. I’ve been running workshops for 10 years or so, and wish I’d read it sooner. Rightly leans on workshop design: not the slides, but the structure, the learning outcomes, and the various formats you can rely upon to achieve these outcomes. Recommended.
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A wonderfully written book that's mixes ready to apply advice with an easygoing charm. The concepts Devin and Rob outline are super easy to apply, whether you currently teach workshops or are looking to run one in the future. They helpfully point to further reading without getting bogged down in education theory.My copy is already well dog eared with parts to re visit the next time I have a workshop to plan!
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Erstaunlich, selbst wenn man schon zahlreiche Workshops ge oder begleitet hat, wird man hier noch eine Reihe nützlicher Hinweise für einen erfolgreichen Workshop (oder Seminar / Vorlesung) finden. Das Buch ist in zwei Teile gegliedert: Teil 1 Design Esssentials (das big picture), Struktur, Formate, Slides etc. Teil 2 Facilitation Essentials. Alle Feinheiten im Umgang mit den Teilnehmern und hier merkt man, dass die Autoren wohl schon reichlich Erfahrung haben ('Protect your own energy , S.156).Sehr zu empfehlen für alle, die ihre Fähigkeiten Workshops zu organisieren und durchzuführen, verbessern wollen.
