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Manage the Group

Facilitation is more than just making an agenda and keeping time. Facilitation is an active role. How you share an activity has significant influence over how participants approach it. How you interact with participants can alter their behavior in the workshop. It’s the facilitator’s responsibility to keep the design studio moving and ensure the workshop produces useful outcomes.

Allow Enough Time for the Workshop

Running out of time or rushing through activities can undermine the workshop goals and decrease participants’ confidence in the findings. You want to see a broad range of ideas in a short amount of time so that you can cheat bounded rationality (see ​Find a Design That Satisfices​).

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