Your workshop plan from an expert – within 48 hours
Answer five questions about your next workshop. Joern Steinz sends you a workshop plan on the Workshop Canvas: the path from challenge to outcome, the right activity for each stage and the questions that move the group – within 48 hours.
The five questions
What is the workshop for?The challenge or decision on the table.
What must be true the day after?The outcome that makes it a success.
Who will be in the room?Roles, number of people, any tensions.
How much time do you have?Half a day, a full day, two days – online or on site.
What could get in the way?Open questions, sceptics, missing information.
A workshop plan you can run as it is
Your plan follows the six stages of The Workshop Playbook and fits on one page. You see the whole workshop at a glance – and know what to do at every step.
The path from challenge to outcome
Every stage of your workshop on the Workshop Canvas, from preparation to follow-up.
The right activity for each stage
Proven activities chosen for your group, your goal and your time frame.
The questions that move the group
Clear instructions and guiding questions you can use word for word.
Workshop design help from someone who has run 1.000+ workshops
Whether it is a strategy day, a kick-off, a retrospective or a customer workshop: a good plan is half the result.
Six stages from challenge to outcome
Every workshop plan follows the same six stages. Each stage answers one guiding question – and has activities that fit it.
Before the workshop
What must be true the day after the workshop?
Workshop brief · Workshop invitation
Generate options
How do we get every idea into the room?
Sailboat · Brainwriting · How might we
Select options
How do we choose the strongest options together?
Affinity mapping · Dot voting
Work it out
What has to be true for this to work?
What-why-how template · Risk and assumption map
Commit
Who does what – and by when?
Action plan · 90-day commitment
After the workshop
How do results turn into real progress?
Results summary · Follow-up check-in
Three ways to make your workshop a success
Your plan is the start. If you want more support, pick what fits.
The Workshop Playbook
Design every workshop yourself
The full guide with 60+ activities, worked examples, templates and monthly live calls.
- Get it on workshopplaybook.com
- 200+ pages
- Monthly live calls
Workshop coaching
For your workshop in a few weeks
Joern works through your workshop design with you and prepares you for the room.
- One-to-one, online
- Design review and run-through
- Tips for difficult moments
Training for your team
Build skills that last
Hands-on facilitation training at your offices, in English or German.
- Internal facilitator program
- Facilitation toolkit for teams
- Facilitator certificate
Three steps to your workshop plan
Use the contact form and answer the five questions in your message. The more you tell us about the group and the goal, the sharper your plan.
Joern reads your answers, designs the workshop on the Workshop Canvas and sends it to you by email – with a short note on how to run each stage.
Answer the five questions
In the contact form – a few sentences per question are enough.
Joern designs your plan
Six stages, the right activities and the guiding questions for your group.
Your plan within 48 hours
On the Workshop Canvas, ready to run or to adapt.
Your plan works for every type of workshop
Teams Joern has worked with
Questions about your workshop plan
Is the workshop plan really free?
Yes. You answer five questions and receive your plan on the Workshop Canvas. There is no obligation.
How detailed is the plan?
It covers all six stages with the activity for each stage, the guiding questions and short notes on how to run them.
Does it work for online workshops?
Yes. Tell us in your answers whether your workshop runs online, on site or hybrid, and the plan takes that into account.
What happens with my information?
Your answers are used only to design your workshop plan and are treated confidentially.
Can Joern facilitate the workshop for us?
Yes. If you would rather have an experienced facilitator in the room, send us a message via the contact form.
How can I learn to design workshops myself?
Start with The Workshop Playbook or build skills across your team with the internal facilitator program.
Joern Steinz
Joern has facilitated workshops since 2014: strategy days, leadership offsites, innovation sprints and team workshops for companies across Europe. Before that he was a consultant at Accenture and worked in corporate development at XING and the freenet Group; he holds an MBA from EADA Business School Barcelona.
He founded SkillDay, a network of trainers for corporate teams, and wrote The Workshop Playbook so that every team can run workshops that end in decisions.
Get your workshop plan within 48 hours
Answer the five questions in the contact form. Your plan follows by email.
Joern Steinz · jsteinz@skillday.com · 0049 175 566 4329