Workshop Facilitation Cheatsheet

You're running a design workshop where the developer built the system, the PM owns the roadmap, and the domain expert can spot your bad assumptions before you finish stating them. Your job isn't to out-know them. It's to direct the room.

This one-page cheatsheet covers before, during, and after the workshop. Print it and keep it on your desk.

What's inside

• The before-workshop prep: who to talk to and the three questions to ask them
• The five moves for the room: naming your role, making experts the heroes, redirecting solutions, parking blockers, closing with decisions
• Word-for-word blocker-handling scripts for "that's not feasible" and beyond
• The 24-hour summary template: decisions, owners, parking lot
• The three things to document before anyone leaves the room

Want the full approach behind this cheatsheet? Read How to Facilitate a Design Workshop When Everyone in the Room Knows More Than You.