Getting Simple When It Gets Complex: A Workshop Kit for Messy Projects
Video Description
Speaker: Marissa (Mars) Epstein
Complex projects stall due to a lack of decisions and alignment. When stakeholders can't agree, teams spin in circles and meetings produce more meetings. The answer is simple: markers, sticky notes, and guided conversation.
This talk walks through half a dozen workshop exercises that cut through chaos and create alignment quickly, each matched to a specific problem teams face again and again.
Attendees leave with a framework for choosing the right exercise, examples from large-scale civic projects, and printable templates to start facilitating their own sessions.
The workshop kit includes:
• Problems → Goals
• 2-Axis Map
• Voice & Tone Sort
• Open Card Sort
• Build a Paper Page
• Affinity Map
• Dot Votes
This kit works for all levels and roles: all who are curious are welcome!
Complex projects stall due to a lack of decisions and alignment. When stakeholders can't agree, teams spin in circles and meetings produce more meetings. The answer is simple: markers, sticky notes, and guided conversation.
This talk walks through half a dozen workshop exercises that cut through chaos and create alignment quickly, each matched to a specific problem teams face again and again.
Attendees leave with a framework for choosing the right exercise, examples from large-scale civic projects, and printable templates to start facilitating their own sessions.
The workshop kit includes:
• Problems → Goals
• 2-Axis Map
• Voice & Tone Sort
• Open Card Sort
• Build a Paper Page
• Affinity Map
• Dot Votes
This kit works for all levels and roles: all who are curious are welcome!