Workshop Survey (Blog)

[Savage]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

Workshop Survey

[Fendaril]

What do you plan to talk about at your next workshop? Are you going to convert some of your recent blog posts into lively discourses/question and answers?

[Curtis2011]

Some day I might come to a workshop/seminar thingy, but not anytime soon. So I decided to skip this survey.

[Angelique]

I took it. I think subjective reality workshops would be awesome! I bet real world exercises would be super interesting.

[Savage]

The results are interesting so far. It's too close to call any particular winner in terms of topics. It appears there's solid interest in workshops on all of these topics.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Fendaril

What do you plan to talk about at your next workshop? Are you going to convert some of your recent blog posts into lively discourses/question and answers?

That would be really boring for me. I prefer to use the freshest ideas I have available, so every workshop is unique, even if it's the "same" workshop as one I did before.

Several times I've gotten new ideas and redesigned part of a workshop just hours before I delivered it. I never want to do stale material, and most of the material I've blogged about is stale to me.

I always create a structured plan for each workshop well in advance, but I never follow the plan exactly. I enjoy weaving in spontaneous ideas as I go along, based on the responses I'm getting from attendees. So each workshop is customized in real time for each audience. No two are the same.

[Savage]

In case anyone is curious, I came up with a scoring metric to evaluate the desirability of other workshops relative to CGW, based on the survey results thus far. This is a bit of an educated guess, but it gives me a reasonable idea of the level of interest.

So if CGW gets a score of 100 as a baseline, then the suggested topics get the following scores:

CGW - 100
Relationships - 69
Career & Finances - 93
Subjective Reality - 82
Entrepreneurship - 90
Success & Achievement - 106

Since a typical CGW has about 100 attendees, you could see this as an estimate of the attendee count for each other type of workshop.

These numbers are close enough that I can justify doing workshops on any or all of these topics... and probably other topics as well.

What I was also able to see by looking at the data is that people who've already attended a CGW are significantly more likely to want to attend another CGW. That doesn't surprise me. Some people have attended 3-4 of them.

Since a big part of the value of these workshops is the chance to socialize with other attendees, to some people the specific topics aren't the most important factor. They just want to attend more workshops... period.

As I design new workshops, I'll continue to make them very social experiences as I did with CGW, so that even people who are somewhat shy will have plenty of opportunities to make new friends.

[Lynn 007]

Relationships - 69

lol - did you make that up?

[zen]

In the comments part of the workshop survey I suggested for ‘Entrepreneurship’ Steve should select 2 attendees he personally would coach and support for some time:
One of them he would personally pick, the other one would be selected by a draw.

It would be interesting how it would work out especially for the 2nd person. I mean Steve would select someone who has really chances to succeed but with the 2nd one it would be more difficult.

I wonder whether Steve found the idea interesting and worth doing it.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Lynn 007

lol - did you make that up?

Nope. That's the wisdom of crowds in action.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by zen

In the comments part of the workshop survey I suggested for ‘Entrepreneurship’ Steve should select 2 attendees he personally would coach and support for some time:
One of them he would personally pick, the other one would be selected by a draw.

It would be interesting how it would work out especially for the 2nd person. I mean Steve would select someone who has really chances to succeed but with the 2nd one it would be more difficult.

I wonder whether Steve found the idea interesting and worth doing it.

I can't say it inspires me personally. It would be off course relative to what's already coming up.

[FelineNostalgia]

I would love to do this! I don't mind travelling it's more interesting to venture out a bit. It will take a good few months to save, I'd say maybe just over a year.