facilitation manual

event design
explore each step of event design from identifying conditions and desired outcomes to synthesizeing the events results into actionable next steps.

current conditions

desired outcomes

applying the
New Way of Working


designing the strawdog

assignments

resource and support

debrief


assignments

Writing Assignments

The writing team is charged with crafting the assignments that participants will work on in their Breakout Teams. The writing team works with the sponsors and facilitators to try to make sense of what they want in the written assignments that participants receive at the start of some modules. The term "craft" is key here. Assignments are not composed without considerable thought. When you consider that a single assignment will consume perhaps 1/6 of the duration of a DesignShop and that the reports from such an assignment will steer the entire content and tone of the DesignShop, it's easy to understand their importance. (http://www.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/gloss02.htm)

The writing team is a subset of the KreW and Sponsors of an event charged with crafting the assignments that participants will work on in their Breakout Teams. The writing team works with the sponsors and facilitators to try to make sense of what they want in the written assignments that participants receive at the start of some modules.