Workshop Facilitation

Structure. Activities. Templates.

This page serves as a reference for our Workshop Facilitation Training.
It is continuously updated with structures, activities and principles to help you run better workshops and meetings.

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The Universal Structure of Workshops

Almost every workshop can be designed using a simple structure consisting of at least six phases that guide participants towards clear outcomes and actions.

This structure is inspired by the success of the Design Thinking framework, but has been expanded to make it universally applicable to many different workshop formats.

workshop structure

Workshop Activities – the workshop tool box

While a clear structure provides the flow of a workshop, activities are the tools that make participants think, collaborate and make decisions. Below you will find an overview of the core activities you can use during your workshops, categorised according to their main purpose. Most of these activities are described in detail in our Facilitation Training Handout. Additional activities will be added and explained here over time.

Generate options

How might we
Sailboat
Our Journey
Stop / Start / Continue
Journey Mapping
Map of the challenge
Jobs-to-be-done
Value Curves®
Brainwriting
Brainstorming
Crazy 8s
Lightning Talks
Perspective change
Mashups
Thinking in analogies
Headstand
Pre-Mortem
Walt-Disney Methode
6-Hats-Method
World Café
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®

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Decide

Affinity Mapping
Buffet-Method
Team Ranking
Impact-Effort-Chart
Dot voting
Decider
Art gallery
Heatmap
Circle of control

Work out results

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
Storyboarding
Statement
Business Model Canvas®
Value Proposition Canvas®
Press release of the future
Guideline
Checklist
Template
Slide of Best Practices

Next steps

Task table
MVP
What can we do to make progress in the next two weeks?
OKR
Most critical validations (Ape + Spaghetti Tower)

Inquiry & Contact

Get in touch to discuss your workshop facilitation requirements. We look forward to hearing from you and will get back to you within 24 hours.

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jsteinz@skillday.com