Design Research Survey

Design Research Survey

Design Research Survey

There is an old adage that you can't really learn something until you teach it. You can learn even more by designing a workshop on the subject. To design a workshop effectively, you really need to dig deep and look at all aspects of the learning process and then apply it to your content. Focusing the design and content ensures that the important messages are delivered and heard.

1. What need are you addressing?

What need are you fulfilling with your workshop? Are you introducing a new technology? Building corporate culture? Gaining buy-in to a new policy or procedure? Dealing with a performance issue? Hopefully you have completed a needs assessment of some sort (held a focus group with staff or the community, conducted a survey, held meetings with management and so on) and the need for this workshop was determined as an outcome of your research. You may have conflicting and/or complimentary needs from various stakeholders that need to be addressed in the workshop design.