Series · 5 lessons · 28 September 2026
Facilitation Skills: Running a Workshop That Actually Produces Decisions
I once sat through a two-hour workshop that everyone in the room agreed went well. Good energy, a whiteboard covered edge to edge, nobody checking their…
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Day 1 · 4 min read
Why Most Workshops End in a Nod, Not a Decision
I once sat through a two-hour workshop that everyone in the room agreed went well. Good energy, a whiteboard covered edge to edge, nobody checking their…
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Day 2 · 4 min read
Designing a Workshop Backwards From the Decision
Most workshop agendas get built the same way, more or less by habit. Open with introductions, review the context, discuss the topic, wrap up with next steps.…
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Day 3 · 5 min read
Reading and Managing the Room
A quiet room is not an agreeing room, and treating it as one is a mistake that has quietly produced more bad decisions than almost anything else I have…
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Day 4 · 5 min read
Closing Every Agenda Item With an Actual Decision
The most underused sentence in any workshop is one almost nobody is explicitly taught to say: "Let me read back what I think we just decided." A good…
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Day 5 · 4 min read
From Workshop to Follow-Through
A decision made well in a room, closed with an explicit read-back and a named owner exactly the way yesterday's article described, still has a shelf life if…