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The Workshop Survival Guide

How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time

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An edition of The Workshop Survival Guide (2019)

The Workshop Survival Guide

How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time

  • 5 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

Whether workshops are your whole world or just a small part, this book will equip you with the tools to design and run a brilliant session, every time, with no stress or drama. And you won't even need to turn into a charismatic superstar to make it happen.

Folks tend to think a successful workshop is all about the facilitation (which does matter, and we'll cover that too), but the real magic is in the design you do ahead of time. It's a simple process that anyone can learn, and which will get you to the real goal: a happy, smiling audience who walks away with more than they arrived with.

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Workshop Survival Guide
2023, Holloway, Inc.
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2023, Holloway, Inc.
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2023, Holloway, Inc.
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The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
August 1 2019, Independently published
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Jun 05, 2019, Independently published
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Table of Contents

Part 1. Workshop Design Essentials
Maintain goodwill with regular “a-ha” moments. 3
Don’t start with the slides (do start with the Skeleton). 7
Vary the Teaching Formats to improve energy, attention, and learning. 32
The five essential Teaching Formats. 37
Design your exercises and refine your schedule. 63
Begin with the bare minimum number of slides. 69
Summary of Part 1. 83
Part 2. Facilitation Essentials
How to introduce yourself without making everyone hate you. 88
Don’t treat your audience as bigger than it is. 93
Seating and group formation. 99
Getting more from your exercises. 107
Answering student questions. 114
How to recover the crowd after an exercise. 119
Overcoming hostility, skepticism, and troublemakers. 126
Staying on schedule and dealing with delays. 144
Charisma can be manufactured with a clicker, a watch, and some small behaviors. 152
Protect your own energy by hiding during breaks. 156
Using co-teachers, expert guests, and helpers. 159
What to do when everything goes wrong. 166
Serve the people in the room, even if there aren’t so many of them. 174
Summary of Part 2 (and a facilitation checklist). 176
Part 3. Conclusion and final thoughts
Appendix: Advanced Teaching Formats. 182
Appendix: An example of inventing, testing, and perfecting a new exercise. 203

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Source title: The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time

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Paperback
Number of pages
219

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OL30095158M
ISBN 10
1071344374
ISBN 13
9781071344378
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23765791
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