Myriam HadnesFounder and CEO, workshops.work · Behavioural Economist | workshops.work | Host of the Unprofessionalism & workshops work Podcasts

12 steps to make workshops work: Step 6

31 Mar 2020 · 1 min

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Step 6 is sending a formal invitation once the venue is booked. Reference earlier conversations to make people feel heard, give a brief agenda teaser without too much detail, and assign a small prep task so participants arrive ready.

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So once you know where the workshop is taking place because you booked the room, step number 6 is to actually inform and officially invite the participants. Get back to the conversations you had beforehand. Like this, they will feel heard and they will feel more engaged to actually participate to the workshop. You will create excitement to actually join. Give them just a glimpse of the agenda. Don't give them too much details because you don't want To start a big conversation about something that you already designed. And you might want to give them a little task to prepare for the workshop, just to be mentally ready. Make sure that this task can even be done at the commute to the workshop itself, because if we are honest, most of us just don't have time to spend on workshop homework beforehand. So step number 6, send them an email, invite them to the workshops to make your workshops work.