Our Workshop package - the four key elements

Design in partnership:

Here we work with our sponsors to:

• Focus on achieving sharply-defined outcomes
• Ensure we udnerstand the organisational context and language
• Develop participation, structure, content and tools
• Check whether the aims require a real meeting and/or 'Distance Brain-Pool'

Collaborative working:

In the Workshop itself we:

• Guide the Workshop process
• Promote intense information-sharing by working at individual, group and plenary levels
• Use short presentations to create shared udnerstanding of concepts and issues
• Design and use exercises and tools, adapted from our toolkit, to meet the specific needs of the Workshop
• Provide a hard-copy workbook to help structure contributions

Assessing ideas during the Workshop:

To develop ideas for participants to assess we:

• Make real-time comments, questions and prompts
• Summarise and report back key findings
• Classify and build on contributions from participants
• Ensure the desired outputs are being delivered
• Feed back the summary results of Workshop assessments to participants in graphical form

Analysis, reporting and action planning:

At this stage we:

• Deliver a Verbatin Report of proceedings almost immediately, ensuring 100% transparency
• Provide a distilled Synthesis Report with recommendations
• Add intelligent and practical analysis of all raw contributions
• Deliver a Synthesis report for the sponsors for further consideration and action
• Provide a vivid contrast with the traditional pile of flip-charts and 'sticky notes'!