Workshops can be frustrating. Sometimes they're silent, tense, and awkward. Sometimes a dominant personality takes over and makes it all about them. You want it to be balanced, cooperative, and creative. How can you make that happen?
Thinking is hard. If you drag people into a meeting room and demand that they come up with ideas - demand that they think, in other words - the results are predictable: brain-freeze and awkward silence, punctuated mainly by the people who like the sound of their own voice or who have axes to grind.
Workshops - done well - create an environment in which it is easy for participants to think in the way that you need them to think; whether that's creatively, critically, or courageously. And once participants are doing the right thing with their brains, it’s up to you to just pat the balloon - encouraging someone quiet to step into the light, or intervening in a circular discussion and moving it on.
The thinking environment is a complex cocktail of elements. The way you set up the task and establish motivation, the precise wording of your questions, the fresh perspectives that you allow people to adopt - all of these elements work together to get people using their brains in ways they've never used them before.
Two day workshop skills course
Our two day course empowers participants to build a thinking environment - an environment in which their own participants will find it effortless to use their brains in a productive way. Whether you need your workshop participants to think more creatively, more cooperatively, or more critically, we'll show you how to manipulate the psychological environment so that they do just that.
£2500
Pre-consultation, course design, and course reporting included
Optimal group size: 6 participants