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Yes, what marks the difference was precisely the effectiveness of a live workshop, compared with the remote ones. After more than a year of convenient digital interaction, seeing such concrete results emerging through physical interaction with colleagues was a rediscovery, for us and for them. We shall celebrate the world quantum leap in digital literacy, but what really matters are the results and the impact that each of us can produce in a live workshop.
It’s the power of the live result that makes the real difference, notwithstanding the significant results achieved for my clients in over 100 remote workshops, not trivial results at all.
But let’s go in order. The workshops I held in 3 days were 3:
1. Design Sprint bootcamp, where we teach how to make the most of the Design Sprint methodology to people who sign up for our bootcamp, mostly professionals, freelancers and internal organizations.
2. A workshop with the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method (LSP) on market differentiation strategies (red ocean) aimed at organizations. In our case, a consulting firm and a small ethnographic museum.
3. A short LSP workshop aimed at social dialogue, in a meetup format, free and aimed at the cultural dissemination of the methodology.
For both first and third workshop I had done “similar” content remotely. These remote workshops produced great satisfaction in my customers and in me. As facilitator: I was able to create a remote workshop that kept the participants engaged and productive “at their best”. They brought home results, tangible results, results beyond their expectations.
Similar, as I said, but not the same. Similar, because Remote workshops must be interactive and must ensure participants engagement, so they must:
1. Focus on results and not on the process
2. Leave the solutions to the participants because they have the context information
3. Guarantee autonomy and give authority to the participants themselves (Purpose driven Engagement) making sure that everyone is focused and involved and that an effective collaboration can be achieved.
For this reason, the remote workshops are carried out in a series (string) of microstructures, or exercises, that guarantee maximum participants co-creation, teamwork and autonomy. These exercises or microstructures are crafted to encourage participation, dialogue and action, introducing small changes in the way participants can meet, make decisions and innovate. They put change and innovation in everyone’s hands.
Despite the great results obtained remotely those made face to face were at least an order of magnitude more effective in achieved results and more engaging for participants. And the main reason was in the holistic interaction among participants which produced a deeper level of learning leveraging on higher engagement, psychological safety and perspective taking typical of a face-to-face interaction.
The strategic workshop (LSP) was not possible to carry out remotely because it is intrinsically designed with the 3D methodology and the co-creation interaction among the participants. We have done other strategic workshops remotely with business agility techniques, to our enormous satisfaction and that of our customers. Some of these workshops have become an important part of our offering, with maximum levels of effectiveness against the competition and the remote offering landscape today.
Originally published at https://www.trivium.international on June 19, 2021.
