a live debrief - how to create a profound team workshop with listening

Today I'll explore before, during, and after a workshop.

This is a workshop I had with Sophie, who you'll hear from shortly and her peers. Then we did the same workshop with Sophie's team.

People regularly say, "Oscar, how can you listen after the conversation?"

This can take many forms.

It could be right at the end of a workshop where you ask a question or a poll roughly in the last 15% of the workshop.

You want to catch it in enough time that you can discuss it so you can hear what's being heard by the participants. So if the workshop's one hour, you should be asking this question between the 45-minute mark and the 50-minute mark.

Here's some of the questions I ask,

• what's one thing that changed your mind about listening today?
• what's one thing you'll implement based on what you heard today?

The first question is typically in shorter workshops, and the second question is typically in longer workshops.

Post-workshop, you can also run a survey or you can deconstruct the magical impact that a workshop has in a 25-minute debrief.

I do this within 14 days of the workshop.