UX & Product Creation Hub: Reason and Purpose Your Workshops Well

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Workshop is a wonderful tool for reimagining, recollecting and repurposing the material we work with. Workshops help to foster the innovation and let the perspectives of multiple stakeholders in in an unconventional, easy and specially structured flow. In this article I would want to focus on when to workshop and when to have casual meetings.

What is Workshop?

Google defines workshop as a specially organised event, where a group of people meet up to present and share ideas, discuss, experiment in work or art related terms. 

Why Is Workshop a Great Working Tool?

In the modern business landscape workshops has won their proper place as a great way to collect informations, to reshaffle the existing setups, to bring new spirit into existig routines. 

Workshops is a wonderful way to let many different perspectives in in a creative, engaging and relaxing way. As all the stakeholders work with different KPIs that might even contradict one another, the usual meeting can meet a deadend as the participants will hold more to their well-structured routines and deliveries. 

Workshops relax participants' mind and move their state of minds into another more giving working pattern. Therefore workshops are a loved tool that is used by designers, conceptualisers, innovators and customer experience gurus. 

When Are Workshops of Especially Great Use?

  1. Customer Experience bonestructuring, updating and maintaining. Customer Experience is a special redthread activity in the company and it requires involvement of many different minds in the company. Workshops supported by follow-up activities are a great way to map experiences, find pain points and projects for multiple disciplines that support the delivery of the product and experience. 
  2. Workshops is a great tool for designers of any kind as design is a non-regular activity in itself that brings a new shape to the world, that has to end in well-structured and well-functioning output. So anything that requires idea generation and creation of multiple perspectives to narrow down thereafter, is great to use workshops for. 
  3. Product and service conceptualisations need workshops too as workshops produce a lot of fruitful material and ideas for your Jira projects and roadmaps.
  4. All types of innovations are well-aided by workshops, as workshops' form allows multiple perspective in a discussion.

Mind The Use of Workshops for Worktime Optimization

    As fruitfull as workshops are, they are also time and resource-consuming. 

    A workshop takes up more time than a meeting, workshops require a lot of consideration and preparation, afterwork too. A lot of human resources need to participate in a workshop, so structure them well. 

    Understand how to ague for your workshop's purpose well. Use meetings and "at your table" discussions, when it makes more sense. Structure stand-ups for quick daily follow-ups instead. 


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