Design a Better Business

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TOOL SCREENPLAYS

Just like it does in movie-making, a screenplay provides an efficient and effective way to design a meeting. The more thorough the screenplay, the better the meeting.

FOCUS define screenplay	± 45 MIN work session	1–2 people

THIS IS YOUR FACILITATION DESIGN TOOL

Screenplays help you to design a meeting or workshop and share this with the key stakeholders and facilitators. Well-designed screenplays enable you to gain clarity about what can be done during a workshop in order to make decisions about time, activities, and topics to be covered. Most important, a screenplay is a visual tool to help you design for results while managing all of the information in one simple document.

DESIGN FOR FLEXIBILITY

One misunderstanding is that the screenplay is fixed and therefore not flexible. That’s not true. The screenplay should be co-created with the core team to help everyone design a results-driven meeting or workshop. In this way, a screenplay will actually help you to be flexible.

I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER.

// Hannibal, A-Team

Moreover, when you design your screenplays in blocks of time/activities, it enables you to shift to new blocks should the ...