Let's presume at this point that you have overcome all of the challenges of getting people in the same location (physically and/or virtually), you have obtained buy-in from the various management teams, have agreed some downtime, and have a safe environment set up in a neutral venue. You're almost ready to embark on the elephant disclosure—almost. What you now need to do is actually pull everyone together and run the workshop(s) to capture the data you need.
To make things a little less daunting it may help to consider your overall end to end process as four distinct stages:
Breaking the overall process into these smaller stages can assist in mapping out the flow and structure of the workshop(s) you'll be facilitating. For example, if you decide to run an...