Developing your course or workshop – key steps

Clarify your objectives

First we talk with you to find out what you want to be different:

• Do you want staff to be more skilled, confident, or successful?
• Do you have a long-standing problem to be solved?
• It could be tensions between departments, issues with suppliers, operational conflicts, etc.
• Or something quite different!
• Do you want a training course, or a facilitated workshop?

Develop the story boards

Let’s show you how we developed our short Virtual Time Management course.

First, using Post It Notes, we brainstorm every chunk we think we’ll need to tell the story.

Welcome               Prioritise           Key Results      To Do Lists

                Job Purpose              Saying 'no' gracefully

Progress versus Maintenance                Action Plan

                                     Urgent versus Important

Now we move each idea until we have a logical sequence.

Welcome                     Job Purpose                     Key Results

To Do Lists              Prioritise                       Urgent versus                                                                                           Important

Progress versus       Saying 'no'                    Action Plan                  Maintenance            gracefully

We then use the Post it Notes to create a course, whorkshop or conference programme with timings and dependencies.

We discuss it until you are happy with the whole plan which you then 'sign off'.

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