Design It!

Invite the Right Participants

With any group exercise, the quality of the workshop is determined by the participants. Too many people in a workshop makes for an expensive meeting. The wrong people in a workshop can limit how wide you explore and might even bump constructive discussions off course. As the host, you need to balance two variables: size and diversity.

Right-Size the Workshop

Effective collaboration breaks down in groups larger than about seven people. Large groups are difficult to manage, require more time for communication, and are impossible to coordinate for scheduling. One way to manage a large group is by dividing it into smaller ones. Even then, a single facilitator can realistically handle only three or four subgroups at a ...