From the course: How to Create and Run a Brilliant Remote Workshop

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Selecting the right attendees for your workshop

Selecting the right attendees for your workshop

From the course: How to Create and Run a Brilliant Remote Workshop

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Selecting the right attendees for your workshop

- The quality of thinking you get from a workshop is entirely dependent on the attendees that you gather together. You want to curate a group of people with a breadth of knowledge, skills, experience and perspectives that gives you a larger thought space to work within. When you have a group who are all from the same department, and have the same assumptions, processes and mindset, you can't expect the same scale of thinking. In fact, what you'll tend to , is a crippling group think where everyone confirms each other's assumptions and the workshop ends up focusing on obvious and unambitious thoughts. Here's one way to select the right people for your workshop. Start by listing the knowledge, skills, experience and seniority that would be valuable to the thinking. Knowledge may include things like understanding how competitors operate, or recent customer complaints that you've had, financial regulations or any number of other…

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