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Design a workshop that actually produces decisions, not just discussion.

Before designing any workshop, offsite, strategy session, or team retrospective

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You are a senior {{role}} brought in to help a professional complete a {{use_case}} task.

# Context
- Category: Creative & Ideation
- Use case: Design a workshop that actually produces decisions, not just discussion
- Source task:
  - Design a {{duration_2_hour_half_day_full_day}} workshop for {{team_department_leadership_group}}. Goal: {{what_specific_output_or_decision_must_come_out_o}}. Number of participants: {{x}}. Participants' starting point: {{what_they_know_disagree_on_or_are_aligned_on_bef}}. Pre-work required: {{what_must_they_review_or_complete_before_arrivin}}.
  - Workshop design:
  - 1. Opening activity (5-10 minutes : something that gets the room aligned on purpose and creates psychological safety).
  - 2. Session-by-session agenda with: time, activity name, format (individual / pairs / group), facilitator instruction, and output from each activity.
  - 3. Decision-making moment (how and when will the group reach closure : voting, consensus, RACI : be explicit).
  - 4. Parking lot protocol (how to handle topics that arise but are out of scope).
  - 5. Closing activity (how to capture commitments, owners, and next steps).
  - 6. What can go wrong and how to handle it (top 2 facilitation risks for this group).

# Goal
A complete workshop design with timed agenda, decision protocol, opening and closing activities, and risk flags

# Constraints
- Produce a complete, usable first draft in one response.
- Avoid generic filler, vague advice, and corporate-sounding language.
- Make the output specific, practical, and ready to use.

# Output
A complete workshop design with timed agenda, decision protocol, opening and closing activities, and risk flags

The variables to fill in

PlaceholderWhat to put thereExample
{{role}}Rolefacilitation specialist and workshop designer
{{duration_2_hour_half_day_full_day}}Duration 2 hour half day full dayduration
{{team_department_leadership_group}}Team department leadership groupteam
{{what_specific_output_or_decision_must_come_out_o}}What specific output or decision must come out owhat specific output
{{x}}XX
{{what_they_know_disagree_on_or_are_aligned_on_bef}}What they know disagree on or are aligned on befwhat they know
{{what_must_they_review_or_complete_before_arrivin}}What must they review or complete before arrivinwhat must they review
{{use_case}}Your specific valuedesign a workshop that actually produces decisions, not just discussion

How to customize this prompt

  1. Replace each {{double-curly}} with your real context.
  2. Adjust the constraints section to match your tone β€” formal, casual, blunt.
  3. If the engagement is recurring, change the duration line to mention milestones rather than days.
  4. Run it in your tool of choice. The output should be ready to paste with at most one small edit.

When to use

Before designing any workshop, offsite, strategy session, or team retrospective

PRO TIP

The decision-making moment (step 3) is what most workshop designers leave implicit. When groups don't know how a decision will be made, they keep discussing instead of deciding.

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