25
Redesigning a Troubled Workshop While Teaching It
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans.
——Yiddish Proverb
Wouldn’t it be great if every workshop you led was a roaring success, if every participant wanted to be there, and if every course you taught was well-designed and a perfect fit for the group? You’ll enjoy that type of experience when leading many workshops.
But some courses you lead will undoubtedly be poorly designed. On other occasions, you may have a well-designed course but one that’s not a good fit for the group you’re leading. Later in this chapter we’ll describe a number of other troublesome factors that can undermine the effectiveness of your workshop. Due to factors like these, an important training skill ...
Get What Great Trainers Do now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
