LitReviewWorkshop


http://workshops.350.org/toolkit/start/ 

http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/top-ten-secrets-for-a-successful-workshop.html

http://www.nyla.org/max/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=711&MenuKey=career 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/29NQS6J 

http://www.nyla.org/images/nyla/files/NYLA_Professional_Development_Proposal_Form.pdf

 

 

Venue: online system? Ability to use slides, videos, live internet, sound, chat questions?

 

Recruit great participants:

 

Designate facilitators:

 

Organize the logistics (mostly tech-related, if it's online--also clearly communicate TIME ZONE of workshop).

Where possible, avoid holding your workshop after lunch, between 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon. For many people, this is their slowest, most unproductive time of day. Your group will probably be more energetic if you schedule the event in the morning or late afternoon. (If you have to run the workshop in the early afternoon, make sure there's plenty of strong coffee available!) - See more at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/PlanningAWorkshop.htm#sthash.cWDwGNGk.dpuf

 

Craft the agenda:

 

More on agenda...

- See more at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/PlanningAWorkshop.htm#sthash.cWDwGNGk.dpuf 

 

Edit materials:

Prepare adequate time with your facilitators to download the materials on this site and familiarize themselves with the material.  You’ll also want to take time edit them for length, cultural appropriateness, and to include more relevant examples in the group activities beforehand.  We recommend printing out participants’ guides so that people can follow along, make notes, and refer to the agenda throughout the training.

 

Run the workshop:

 

Creating group exercises is different for each workshop. Keep these tips in mind:

- See more at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/PlanningAWorkshop.htm#sthash.cWDwGNGk.dpuf

 

 

Follow up:

Create a questionnaire to give to all participants at the end of the event, and give them plenty of opportunity to share their opinions on how well it went. - See more at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/PlanningAWorkshop.htm#sthash.cWDwGNGk.dpuf

 

After the workshop, aside from providing time for people travel home, rest, and digest the material, it’s good to build off the positive energy and momentum created in the workshop experience to continue engaging everyone, and ideally transitioning into real action. This requires creating clear and efficient communications channels — email listserves, facebook groups, etc — and it requires modelling constructive use of those tools. When a workshop ends, no matter how tired you are, try not to disappear. Take a deserved rest, but capitalize on the moment and both model continued leadership by initiating more work, and also continue in your role as a facilitator, attempting to draw out and support other’s leadership, not simply falling back to the same organizing team you began with when you started.