Information, Education and Communication: Workshop


Workshop:

A workshop means work. It is a meeting of people who work together in small groups, usually upon problems which they derive themselves. Usually it is a group of twelve or more persons with a common interest or problem, usually professional or vocational who meet together for an extended period of time to improve their individual proficiency, ability, or understanding, by study, research, discussion and securing information from specialists.

Advantages:

  1. Complete Participation
  2. Research
  3. New material and research.
  4. Use of expert resource persons.
  5. Decorate discussion.
  6. Individual growth.


Limitations:

  1. Require special facilities which may not be available.
  2. Time is too long for many persons.
  3. Autocratic leadership may develop.
  4. Limited in the number of people reached.


How to conduct the Workshop:

  1. Someone a group, a committee, or organization etc. Conceives the idea and the general area to be explored, Gets the idea approved for legitimized, and then advertises or diffuses the idea.
  2. A chairman or committee is designated to select a site, receive reservations, obtain resource people and make Other general arrangements. The most important facility is an environment conducive to work in terms of its Physical setting and resource materials available.
  3. The chairman opens the first session and conduct problem exploration session.
  4. Specific problems on which the members would like to work are listed. Work groups are then formed by the Members on the basis of their choice of problems on which they wish to work.
  5. Work groups meet, choose a chairman, recorder, and a representative for the planning committee, then proceed to work On the problems of the group.
  6. The planning committee is organized and proceeds to plan the rest of the workshop so as to facilitate its conduct.
  7. The planning committee develops a plan for the reminder of the workshop and submits their plan to the whole Group for consideration and acceptance.
  8. The resource people work among the groups.
  9. The planning committee becomes an executive committee to carry out the accepted plan for the workshop Including the summary and evaluation sessions.
  10. A closing statement by some one selected by the planning committee.
  11. An able guide is usually present to bring his experience and previous training to bear upon the problem.
  12. There may or may not be outside speakers.
  13. The emphasis is on close association of participants and cross fertilization of ideas and experiences.