workshops work
Welcome to “workshops work,” the podcast that transforms how professionals engage, inspire, and lead groups. Hosted by Dr Myriam Hadnes, a behavioural economist and facilitation evangelist, each episode dives into facilitation techniques and mindsets that make workshops successful.
Join us every week as we sit down with world-renowned facilitators and uncover their secrets to creating psychological safety, fostering collaboration, and sparking innovation. Whether you’re a Facilitator, L&D professional, HR leader, manager, coach or trainer, you’ll find practical tips, inspiring stories, and actionable insights to elevate your group dynamics.
From navigating conflict to unlocking creativity, “workshops work” blends theory with practice, ensuring you walk away with tools you can immediately apply. Dr Myriam Hadnes doesn’t just interview; she facilitates enriching conversations that shift perspectives and deepen understanding.
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062 - How to Find Out the Real Topic of Your Workshop with Britt Andreatta
Workshops are arranged for many different reasons, but so often there is something more beneath the surface – a deeper question that needs to be answered or a problem that the client cannot yet articulate.
Clients are ‘inside’ the problem, so it is understandable that they might not be able to truly define and understand it.
So, how do we cut through the noise and get to the real purpose of our workshops?
Britt Andreatta has been asking this question for a long time and has developed a brilliant participant-focused strategy to identify the real topic of workshops that remains true to the client’s needs.
Listen in to learn:
- What Britt believes are key differences between virtual and physical workshops
- Britt’s strategy for helping clients define the real purpose of their workshop
- How designing psychological safety for the group and for the leader differ
- How Britt ensures the right people are in the room
- Why asking diagnostic questions at every stage of your workshops will improve them
Britt is also offering Workshops Work listeners a free chapter of her book, Wired to Grow. Get your free chapter!
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Questions and Answers
[01:42] How did you get started in facilitation?
[03:49] What are the differences between designing a virtual and a physical workshop?
[07:32] How do you help clients identify the real purpose of their workshop?
[13:37] What are the differences between designing psychological safety for groups and leaders?
[22:21] How do you ensure the right people are in the room?
[24:14] What makes a workshop fail?
[32:46] How would you describe the future of facilitation?
[41:06] What hashtag would you give yourself?
[41:48] What do you wish you had known when you started your career in facilitation?
[45:19] What is the one thing listeners should take away from this?
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