The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint: Design Fast. Deliver Strong. Without Stress.

by Leanne Hughes, Jade Miller (Illustrator)

Overview

Even for experienced facilitators, putting together a 2-hour workshop can be daunting.

Where to start? What to include? How to engage the audience? How to create impact and positive results? Above all, how to do all this quickly and effectively?

Drawing on years of experience designing and delivering workshops all over the world, Leanne Hughes' '2-Hour Workshop Blueprint' gives you a formula to create sessions that hit the mark every time. Leanne's SPARK framework takes you step by step, from first contact with a client all the way through to post-session review and follow-up.

Cut your design & development time and create impactful and memorable sessions that engage participants from the start. Leave them asking, when's your next workshop?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780645740011
Publisher:	Big Charlie Press
Publication date:	06/29/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Leanne Hughes is a consultant, speaker and facilitator, maximising team potential by creating influential, contagious work experiences that scale across teams, functions and regions. As a workshop designer and facilitator, she combines her experience in Marketing with her education (and obsession) with Group Dynamics and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging experiences. Whether launching a change initiative, enabling shifts in performance, or building a culture to achieve next-level success, Leanne's workshops impact both businessand lives.Especially skilled with virtual events (both delivery and behind the scenes advice and coaching) Leanne has distilled her knowledge and experience into The First Time Facilitator and now, a book 'The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint'.Keynote speaker, consultant, podcaster, and now author, Leanne champions transparency, innovation and fearless experimentation across various industries around the world, including construction, mining, tourism, and vocational education and training.In 2022, Leanne was inducted into The Million Dollar Consulting® Hall of Fame, recognised by her peers as being among the world leaders in consulting. In 2021, Leanne was the winner of Learning Professional of the Year at the Asia Pacific Learning Impact Awards.

Table of Contents

• VIDEO SUMMARY Read This First
• Chapter One What this book's about, how it can help you, plus a quick hello
• Chapter Two Seven Practices of Highly Effective Workshop Hosts
• Chapter Three Accepting the Challenge: SPARK Your 2-Hour Workshop Adventure
• ACT I
• Chapter Four S is for Setup
• Chapter Five Curate and Cluster Your Content (Setup)
• Intermission
• ACT II
• Chapter Six P is for Power Up
• Chapter Seven A is for Activities
• ACT III
• Chapter Eight R is for Review
• Chapter Nine K is for Keep
• Encore
• Appendices: Helpful Extras
• Acknowledgements

Editorial Reviews

"Good content, bad design and facilitation? Death. OK content, great design and facilitation? Glory.

Leanne Hughes is the perfect guide, and in this book she lays down the foundations for your workshop success."

-Michael Bungay Stanier, bestselling author of The Coaching Habit and How to Work with (Almost) Anyone

"The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint offers an abundance of specific strategies to surprise and delight participants. With this road-tested toolkit, you will learn exactly how to design and deliver memorable workshops in a fraction of the time, spreading that same gold dust of contagious energy that Leanne herself so brilliantly brings into the world."

-Jenny Blake, former Google Training and Development team lead, podcaster, and author of Free Time, Pivot, and Life After College

"In this clever book, Leanne Hughes takes you through the creation and delivery of workshops with alacrity and passion. You'll learn how to attract and engage participants, deliver solid content that's immediately applicable, and evaluate your own progress.

You can't read a book to learn how to ski. But you can read this book and learn how to create brilliant workshops."

-Alan Weiss, PhD, author, Million Dollar Consulting, Sentient Strategy, and over 50 other books.

"As someone who has spent years studying the art of communication, I can say with confidence that Leanne's book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their workshop design and hosting skills."

-Jordan Harbinger, creator, The Jordan Harbinger Show

"Pay attention to Leanne's book, filled with practical advice you can apply when you need to facilitate a workshop that is interactive, energetic, and engaging. Her SPARK framework is an easy solution to be more impactful as a facilitator."

-Neen James, executive strategist, author of Attention Pays

"Leanne Hughes' advice is smart, punchy, actionable and BS-free, just like the workshops she will help you to design and deliver. If you want to level up your facilitation game, start here!"

- Leslie Ehm, bestselling author of Swagger, and founder of Combustion Training

"If you're looking for a practical guide to creating workshops that truly resonate with your audience, Leanne's book is a must-read. Her approach is refreshingly simple and actionable, making it easy to turn your expertise into a memorable and effective workshop experience."

- Pat Flynn, Co-founder of SPI Media & Author of Bestselling books Superfans and Will it Fly

"Backed by her extensive experience and insights from over 200 podcast interviews, this book is an essential companion for anyone who wants to

create impactful workshops without getting entangled in the complexities of facilitation. It will quickly become your go-to resource for crafting

informative, engaging, and unforgettable workshop experiences."

- Dr Myriam Hadnes, host of the Workshops Work podcast and NeverDoneBefore community

"This is the book I wish I had read when I started developing workshops, many years ago. Leanne makes workshop development sound easy - and that's because it can be. It's a must-read for facilitators, trainers and teachers, especially if you're an over-thinker who spends far too long re-working everything so it's "just right"...

- Mel Kettle, Leadership Communication Strategist, Speaker, Author, Facilitator

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