Preparing an agenda

While creating an agenda choose activities and methods and assemble them into a coherent flow.

Create a timeline, showing when your workshop starts, ends, and how long each section will last;

• Define the desired outcomes both tangible and intangible;
• Refer back to your participants,  to pinpoint main needs and expectations;
• Brainstorm activities you believe will meet the participants’ needs;
• Pick among those activities: which are “must-haves” and which are optional?
• Assess how much time each activity will take, and add a bit of buffer to account for the unexpected;
• Check that your activities are diverse enough to include people with different styles and approaches (e.g. by having both individual and group activities);
• Add essential opening and closing activities such as icebreakers and introductions at the beginning and feedback and drawing conclusions at the end
• Arrange them in a timeline;

Example Agenda