Designing a 30-Minute Problem-Solving Workshop

Workshop Structure: The Four C's

• Collect

  • Collect all information, challenges, and issues.
  • Visualize all conversations.
  • Exercise: Sailboat
    • Helps visualize and prioritize challenges.

• Choose

  • Select one focus area for the next 20 minutes.
  • Method: How Might We
    • Converts problems into usable challenges for the next phase.

• Create

  • Develop solutions for the selected challenge.
  • Exercise: 10 for 10
    • Fast brainstorming exercise.
    • Can last up to 10 minutes but may shorten to 5 minutes.
  • Prioritize ideas for experimentation.

• Commit

  • Determine priority of experiments and ideas.
  • Exercise: Action Board
    • Organizes experiments in order of priority.
    • Functions like a mini project management session.

Additional Information

• The overview provides a quick look at the workshop structure and exercises.
• For deeper insights, a free one-hour training is available.
• Training focuses on facilitation and designing sessions to solve problems and make decisions.
• Training is limited time and free.