Workshop Delivery Options
Face-to-face workshops, online and hybrid
Each type of collaboration meeting has its advantages and disadvantages. Underpinning effective collaboration is the use of digital communications tools and digital whiteboards that can capture people’s thoughts in real time.
Virtual Collaboration
Virtual Collaboration has no central location, and everyone is 100% remote.
Pros & Cons
- Most of the work is being done in silence as people collaborate visually on stickers.
- Productivity is excellent.
- Conversations are encouraged in breakout groups.
- Group feedback is directed through structured share out sessions.
- Introverts feeling empowered as their ideas are captured – extraverts struggle.
- Ideas are exported directly off the whiteboard into Excel.
- Up to 100 participants.
- Typical duration ranges from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
- Multiple facilitators work behind the scenes and prepare the whiteboard.
- Break-out groups are used to make sessions personal.
- Significant planning ensures the scope and technology is delivered successfully.
Hybrid Collaboration
Hybrid Collaboration involves a face-to-face team collaborating with remote participants.
Pros & Cons
- People in the room face-to-face.
- People working remotely via Zoom or MS Teams.
- All participants working on a digital whiteboard.
- Brainstorming done on the whiteboard so all can contribute.
- Remote people always given equal importance by the facilitator.
- Ideas exported directly off the whiteboard into Excel.
- Typical duration ranges from 30 minutes to 2 hours to ensure remote people remain engaged.
- Multiple facilitators work behind the scenes and prepare whiteboard.
Face to Face Collaboration
Face to Face Collaboration located together in one single location.
Pros & Cons
- Most of the work is being done verbally as people collaborate and discuss ideas.
- Reduced productivity as it’s limited by a scribe, 20 people, 60 ideas in 30 minutes.
- Side conversations help to build lasting relationships.
- Extroverts feeling empowered as their ideas are captured – introverts struggle.
- Ideas photographed and exported in Excel.
- Up to 20 participants.
- Typical duration range from 4 hours to 1-2 days.
- Break-out groups used to make sessions personal.
- Planning to ensure the session runs smoothly and achieves the goals.
