Work­shop in Heer­len & 5 hel­pful tips for hos­ting a workshop

Part of my ba­che­lor the­sis with the to­pic of using busi­ness in­tel­li­gence in pro­duc­tion con­trol­ling is to per­form a pro­cess ana­ly­sis for a pro­duc­tion area. To rea­li­ze this, I had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to hold a work­shop in our new of­fice in Heer­len (Ne­t­her­lands) in mid-Au­gust. This was a gre­at chan­ce for me to meet the col­le­agues in per­son in the new fa­ci­li­ties. To con­duct the work­shop, I cho­se a spe­ci­fic me­thod and in­ves­ted a lot of time in the pre­pa­ra­ti­on.  

For this I have sum­ma­ri­zed 5 tips that could be hel­pful for a work­shop: 

  1. Ti­me­ta­ble: Crea­te a sche­du­le for the who­le day and share it with the par­ti­ci­pan­ts. In­clude breaks and buf­fer times!
  2. Warm-up: Think about games or small tasks to ligh­ten the mood. My me­thod: My 3#s – each par­ti­ci­pant thinks of 3 hash­tags to in­tro­du­ce them­sel­ves as a per­son, whe­ther hob­bies, in­te­rests or other ide­as. In this way, even long-time col­le­agues learn so­me­thing about each other that they may not have known.
  3. Ru­les: Ru­les for com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and col­la­bo­ra­ti­on should be de­ter­mi­ned at the be­gin­ning. My re­com­men­da­ti­on: Cell pho­nes should be tur­ned off to keep ever­yo­ne fo­cu­sed on the topic.
  4. Mi­xing media: I used a white­board and the on­line tool Miro. The ch­an­ge en­cou­ra­ged the con­cen­tra­ti­on of the participants. 
  5. Feed­back: At the end of the work­shop, par­ti­ci­pan­ts should be able to give feed­back and share sug­ges­ti­ons for improvement.

 

In sum­ma­ry, it was a chal­len­ging task for me, but I en­joy­ed it a lot and the re­sults are very hel­pful for my the­sis. Also the din­ner tog­e­ther and the ro­of­top bar in beau­tiful Maas­tricht gave a nice en­ding to this busi­ness trip. 

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