Facilitation, in practice
Guides, frameworks and walkthroughs for people who run workshops for a living.
8 tips on how to design a multi-day offsite
Eight things that made the biggest difference across years of designing larger leadership gatherings — and the one that matters most.
Read the guideThe habit that makes meetings stick
Good meeting leaders summarise every agenda item before moving on. One sentence, thirty seconds, and everyone leaves with the same understanding.
How do you know if a workshop was good?
Not whether people enjoyed it. Whether it delivered. How to define desired outcomes — and why they have to be agreed with your stakeholders before you design anything.
People don't hate change. They hate being changed.
Resistance is usually a sign that someone was missing influence, not information. Three exercises for the workshop — and the preparation before it that matters more.
What does a meeting actually cost?
Not in energy. Not in hours. In money. A simple formula for the real cost of a leadership meeting — and why shortening one is good resource management, not defeat.
Who should actually be in the room?
There are three kinds of participant, and most invitation lists treat all three the same. A five-minute exercise before you send the next invite.
Why nothing changes after the leadership offsite
We assume important messages cascade down the organisation. They don't, on their own. What strong cascading actually looks like — and how to design it into the session.
5 workshop energizers that actually work
Five short energizers that need almost no materials, work from ten people to a thousand, and don't ask anyone to pretend to be an animal.