Design Workshops: Planning, Facilitation and Decision-Making
Learn the essentials of planning and leading effective workshops. Build skills in facilitation, collaboration, and driving desired outcomes with confidence.
About the course
A closer look at the course
Workshops are powerful tools for tackling complex problems and driving innovative solutions. This course equips you with the skills to effectively facilitate workshops that inspire collaboration, enhance teamwork, and generate breakthrough ideas.
Throughout the course, you'll explore common challenges teams face and learn how to design engaging, efficient workshops to address them. You’ll be introduced to a variety of techniques and tools for brainstorming, evaluating ideas, and refining solutions. A key focus will be creating a supportive and inclusive environment where creativity can thrive and every participant’s input is valued.
By the end of the course, you'll be confident in your ability to lead workshops that foster creativity and produce valuable insights. You’ll also understand how to structure and manage workshops to ensure they stay focused, meet objectives, and deliver actionable results.
Before the Workshop During and After the Workshop Facilitation Skills
Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Plan and execute successful design workshops — Understand when to call for a design workshop, how to set goals, and plan the correct processes and activities to produce the right deliverables.
- Discover helpful brainstorming and decision-making workshop activities — Familiarize yourself with tried-and-tested individual and group activities to stimulate creative idea generation and ways to build consensus on design decisions.
- Understand how to run remote design workshops and build great presentations — Learn about all the virtual tools and techniques you’ll need to run a successful remote workshop and how to keep your audience engaged with your presentations.
- Master people management during workshops — Learn management techniques that will help you encourage workshop participants and handle conflicts with ease.