Failure Forward: what have you learned to succeed even more?

Feb '23 in General discussion & questions

Let's accept it - workshops not always go as planned, and we are always dealing with 'oh-no' situations (at least me!)

So I thought to share and also learn from everyone's failures but with the mindset of 'failing forward' - every mistake can turn into a stepping stone for success in the future.

I'll start with one learning from this week, and I'd love to hear your lessons learnt too!

[plan] In an online workshop where participants from various countries were expected, I did an ice-breaking exercise where I shared a screen of a white world map and asked colleagues to put a stamp on where they are at the moment.

[what happened] it took forever for some participants to find out how to stamp and annotate on zoom, while some got it immediately. So it wasn't smooth. Lots of scribbles on the white board too. And, actually majority of them were from the same countries so the activity didn't really serve the purpose of showing the diversity of participants. It fell flat and made it a not-so-cool start of the workshop.

[lessons]

keep the technology super simple, especially if you aren't sure of the level of familiarity
have some back-up questions/activities, in case one question didn't spark interest,

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