| name | workshop-facilitation |
| description | Facilitate workshop sessions in a one-step, multi-turn flow. Use when an interactive skill needs consistent pacing, options, and progress tracking. |
| intent | Provide the canonical facilitation pattern for interactive skills: one step at a time, with clear progress, adaptive recommendations at decision points, and predictable interruption handling. |
| type | interactive |
| theme | workshops-facilitation |
| best_for | ["Adding structured facilitation to any PM workshop or guided session","Running interactive sessions with numbered recommendations and progress tracking","Ensuring your workshops stay on track and end with actionable choices"] |
| scenarios | ["I want to run a structured positioning workshop with my product team — set up the facilitation protocol","Help me facilitate a discovery sprint kickoff with clear questions, options, and progress labels"] |
| estimated_time | varies by workshop |
Purpose
Provide the canonical facilitation pattern for interactive skills: one step at a time, with clear progress, adaptive recommendations at decision points, and predictable interruption handling.
Key Concepts
- One-step-at-a-time: Ask a single targeted question per turn.
- Session heads-up + entry mode: Start by setting expectations and offering
Guided, Context dump, or Best guess mode.
- Progress visibility: Show user-facing progress labels like
Context Qx/8 and Scoring Qx/5.
- Decision-point recommendations: Use enumerated options only when a choice is needed, not after every answer.
- Quick-select response options: For regular context/scoring questions, provide concise numbered answer options plus
Other (specify) when useful.
- Flexible selection parsing: Accept
#1, 1, 1 and 3, 1,3, or custom text, then synthesize multi-select choices.
- Context-aware progression: Build on previous answers and avoid re-asking resolved questions.
- Interruption-safe flow: Answer meta questions directly (for example, "how many left?"), restate status, then resume.
- Fast path: If the user requests a single-shot output, skip multi-turn facilitation and deliver a condensed result.
Application
- Start with a brief heads-up on estimated time and number of questions.
- Ask the user to choose an entry mode:
1 Guided mode (one question at a time)2 Context dump (paste known context; skip redundancies)3 Best guess mode (infer missing details and label assumptions)
- Run one question per turn and wait for an answer before continuing.
- Keep questions plain-language; include a short example response format when helpful.
- Show progress each turn:
Context Qx/8 during context collectionScoring Qx/5 during assessment/scoring
- Ask follow-up clarifications only when they materially improve recommendation quality.
- For regular context/scoring questions, offer quick-select numbered response options when practical:
