How to Run Successful Meetings and Workshops: Six Steps That Will Cultivate Collaboration and Produce Results from Face-To-Face, Online or Hybrid

How to Run Successful Meetings and Workshops: Six Steps That Will Cultivate Collaboration and Produce Results from Face-To-Face, Online or Hybrid

This book is an expansion of the author’s five-star rated book “Not Another Workshop!” It’s for those who want to achieve results from their session but are overwhelmed by where to start or are missing a failsafe approach. It provides a proven 6-step method to plan a collaborative meeting or workshop and includes 30 online and face-to-face collaborative exercises to help you hit the ground running. It also provides a bronze, silver and gold level approach to enable the development of facilitation skills required during any session. The tools and techniques will remove the risks of planning even the most high-stakes meeting or workshop and maximise your success through better collaboration and developing action plans. After reading the book, you will be able to Assemble and utilise online, in-person and hybrid toolkits - Define realistic and measurable outcomes for the session - Ensure you have the right stakeholders to achieve outcomes - Design or leverage standard collaborative exercises that give everyone a voice and harness the collective intelligence - Create a detailed plan, guiding materials and a logical agenda for the session to reduce your workload during the session - Understand the key skills required to facilitate effectively during the session and how to go about developing these over time - Follow up after the session to maintain momentum and demonstrate a real impact on your organisation This comprehensive guide is essential for those inside any organisation seeking to collaborate with other employees, teams, customers, partners or suppliers to produce transformative outcomes. Created by a leading workshop training provider, the POISED® methodology outlined in the book consists of six practical steps—Purpose, Outcomes, Identify questions, Stakeholders, Exercises and Detailed plan