📎 From messy prep to clear briefs with the Workshop Kickoff Canvas
Turn messy workshop prep into a methodical approach
Great workshops don’t start with sticky notes.
They start with the right questions.
In this interactive session, Carolina Poll — Strategic Designer & Workshop Facilitator — will introduce the Workshop Kickoff Canvas, a 3-phase template designed to help facilitators, team leaders, and workshop creators move from fuzzy inputs to a clear, purposeful workshop agenda.
You’ll explore how to collect the right information, translate it into a structured workshop flow, and choose the exercises that best support your intended outcome — before you even start building the board.
A webinar with Carolina Poll
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🌟 WHY THIS WEBINAR?
Too often, stakeholders give vague requests and workshops are built backwards: we start from exercises that feel comfortable, try to determine a duration, and send back a proposed agenda before fully understanding what the session actually needs to achieve.
The result? Workshops that look good on paper, but aren’t always intentional or leading to the desired outcome.
This session gives facilitators and team leaders a repeatable way to prepare workshops with more clarity and confidence.
You’ll learn how to move through three essential preparation phases:
Create the brief
Clarify the goal, session type, participants, group dynamics, and all the other key information needed before designing the workshop.
Translate the brief into a workshop flow
Use the 4Cs framework — Collect, Choose, Create, Commit — mapped to three core objectives: Awareness, Alignment, and Agreement.
Plan your agenda
Select the right exercises from a library and place them into your designed workshop flow, so every activity has a clear role in moving the group toward the desired outcome.
You’ll leave with a great tool and methodology to understand what needs to happen before the board is built — so the workshop has a stronger foundation.
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With over 1,500 participants trained in 2024, R Generation's remote workshops are a symbol of excellence. Consistently high participant satisfaction (NPS > 60) and multiple nominations forge our reputation in crafting learning experiences.
⏱️ YOUR AGENDA
👋 Welcome introduction,
✨ Meet the Creator,
🙋♀️🙋♂️ Questions & answers,
🕹️ The R(emote) playground,
😍 Feedback.
💛 KEY TAKEAWAYS
Learn what information you need to gather. Prepare a great client brief that sets the right foundations.
Understand how to use the 4Cs — Collect, Choose, Create, Commit — to shape the participant journey
Map workshop activities to different outcomes: awareness, alignment, and agreement to build a timed agenda that connects exercises to purpose, energy, and group dynamics
Walk away with a practical preparation canvas you can reuse before your next session
🎯 WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Facilitators & Workshop Designers: Anyone who wants a clearer, more intentional process for preparing impactful sessions.
Team Leaders & Product Teams: People responsible for running alignment, strategy, ideation, or decision-making workshops.
Designers & Strategic Thinkers: Professionals who need to turn complex product challenges, vague ideas, or team inputs into clear outcomes.
Miro Beginners & Remote Collaboration Newcomers: Anyone looking for a practical way to structure their first workshops before jumping into board-building.
🥷 MEET YOUR SPEAKER
Carolina Poll is a Strategic Designer, Workshop Facilitator, and Miro MVP with 17 years of experience working with SaaS teams.
She's built over 120 templates on Miroverse, and her facilitation is rooted in real product design work — she's the person teams call when they need to move from messy inputs and competing priorities to a clear direction they can actually build on.
✨ A GENIUNE COLLABORATION
This workshop is part of R GENERATION’s partnership with Miro, the one-stop collaborative platform designed to make remote sessions more engaging and interactive than ever before.
👨⚖️ TERMS & CONDITIONS
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