Design+Strategy No. 17: Planning Sessions & Workshops

We're kicking off our 2016 event schedule with a workshop to help you design better workshops and sessions (how meta of us). Bridging the gap between knowing what you need out of a session and deciding on what exercises and activities you should design into the agenda (and in what order!) benefits from practice. We'll have seasoned and experienced practitioners in the room to help you learn how to build that capability into your own work, discuss and explore best practices, and even share a war story or two about times when it went wrong so we can all learn from other's experiences.

Topics will include:

• How to design powerful agendas and identify the right collaborative exercises for your session

• Resources & tools

• Tips & tricks

• Who should be in the room--and how to get them there

• Setting and managing expectations

• Capturing and sharing outcomes

Stay tuned for more details!

The first event of 2016 will be hosted by a new sponsor: Connective DX at their lovely offices in NW Portland.

Testify!

"One of the things that I enjoy the most about the Design+Strategy meetups is that there is no "smartest person in the room" scenarios, because the event recognizes the value of not just the speakers, but of all attendees. I've never attended any other event where participant's voices have been so included in the dialogue and have helped to shape the conversation."

"Design+Strategy is an undiscovered treasure in Portland's creative and consulting community. D+S provides an opportunity for people of all levels and backgrounds to gain hands-on experience tackling problem solving in new and relevant ways—shoulder to shoulder with veteran design thinking professionals who actively share, teach and encourage."

"Each time I attend an event I walk away with something I can directly apply at work the next day. I can truly say that I am a better facilitator and collaborative thinker because of my time at Design+Strategy events."

Shout-Outs
We'd like to thank our gracious and generous sponsors:

• Event Sponsor: Connective DX

• O'Reilly Media

• Erica Hassinger of Scout & Co for the elegant Design+Strategy identity

Many thanks!