Running Workshops With SessionLab

For about three years now, I have run most of my 2+ hour workshops with the assistance of SessionLab. I am not affiliated, just a happy user sharing a tool.

Before SessionLab I would set up the agenda for the day in a table in Word, with notes and responsibilities, and more notes, but timing was always a pain, because I might change something and all my planning was off. I designed 18 day coach training like this.

Then my colleague pointed me to SessionLab that does all this in the most natural way. It helps with timing, you can move stuff around easily, park items for later, assign facilitators, differentiate between break-out rooms, and dozens of other things that are really wonderful.

Here's a video walk-through - also shown below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6m2P2mZPY

And when I was ready to do my first Design Sprint, I found an AJ&Smart 4 day Design Sprint 2.0 template that I could just work from - see image below for actual screenshot from the app.

https://www.sessionlab.com/templates/design-sprint-2-0/

And the Lightning Decision Jam workshop is also in there along with dozens of other templates to inspire better workshops.

https://www.sessionlab.com/methods/lightning-decision-jam-ldj

My tendency is always to personalize wokshops to my preferences and style, but having the template and the fabulous design of SessionLab has really saved me time before workshops and allowed me to focus more on the people than the tools during the workshop.

What tools are you using?

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