Off Script

Episode 46: How to plan and run a discovery workshop

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What is a discovery workshop and how can they be used to work through problems in your business? In this episode, James and Josh discuss how they've run them in the past and offer some tips and tricks to getting the most out of these sessions.

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  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 01:00 What is a discovery workshop
  • 02:00 Using Miro
  • 02:30 Slideument - slide deck with a documents worth of content
  • 03:00 Use the right medium to foster discussion
  • 04:00 Break workshop sessions into two
  • 05:00 Use other physical spaces to inspire
  • 06:00 Framing the problem but not steering
  • 07:00 Amazon's idea - Write the Press Release
  • 08:00 What are the challenges, resources, and politics?
  • 09:00 What would the bad press be?
  • 10:00 How to be honest and open?
  • 11:00 Creating a safe environment
  • 14:00 Find out what they want from the session
  • 16:00 90 min cycles of energy
  • 17:00 Risk register
  • 18:00 Walk and talk to reenergise
  • 20:00 Keeping discussions on track
  • 21:00 Capturing and processing the data
  • 22:00 Using AI to digitise and distribute
  • 23:00 The next steps
  • 23:30 One Two Three All
  • 26:00 Handy thing to do to unblock

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