What I like about it

•     Real life example
•     Get to know behavioural pattern I did not know before
•     Play
•     New presenter
•     New way to bring an “old” book back
•     The idea: that patterns exist for change & can help one to structure change
•     Subject, play, format
•     Great session. I just “read a book in 90 minutes”
•     Discussion and play
•     Practical labels
•     Gives new ideas to resolve problems – I guess we often try the same patterns according to our comfort zone
•     I like using intuition for changing organizations. Now it’s nice there’s a language & patterns that you can use.
•     The role playing sessions were nice!
•     The topic
•     Makes me aware of the patterns, that they do exist in the roles of the people
•     The play
•     Short, sharp explanation of patterns
•     Work in groups
•     Format: lots of interaction
•     Role playing story
•     The exercise was actually useful for someone
•     Informative
•     Comprehensive
•     Good dynamic: presenting pair worked well
•     Learning new real life patterns
•     How to tackle these issues
•     Presented in a fun way.
•     Participated myself
•     Presented enthusiastically
• Interesting format, nice overview
  

To improve

• Prepare the role play acting a little more so that the play will be more clear and easy to understand
• Find some way to show the patterns with more energy
• Maybe pick out a few patterns and deep dive into them?
• Walk around and help people to focus on the exercise
• More transfer of experience/feedback from presenters during workshop part
• More “directions” during case studies: find a problem, go through patterns
• Even more interactive & engaging the audience
• Little more practice time for the “players”
• Steer the discussion to the patterns list early on as otherwise people keep just talking about the problem + solution without mapping to the list and therefore hitting the learning objective
• A little more coordination between the speakers
• Use colour in the slides. They are monochrome
• More explaining of the patterns (== more time)
• Handouts to take home
• Improve the explanation of the graph
• Use a remote control
• Take charge of the plays and the transitions between play and presentation
• Last part exercise: split into 2 iterations or more instead of one large section. Benefit: let the groups learn from each other’s first results
• More story, fewer cases
• The thing with the hats depends too much on who is playing
• Involve more the participants, make it a workshop
• Have “better trained” actors: while they gave a good enough example, they were not always clear and understandable. They need to rehearse more
• Maybe some more success stories?
• A bit more depth
• More detailed examples of the patterns
• There was some time left in the end that could have been used