Erika Hebert
Two days offsite. Great facilitator. Sticky notes everywhere. Everyone leaves energized. Three weeks later, nothing has changed. If that pattern feels familiar, the workshop was not the problem. The design around it was.
Learning is not the same as change
Behavior shifts when new actions get repeated under pressure, with feedback, until they replace old defaults. A single session cannot manufacture that. It can only spark the intent.
What actually sticks
Spaced practice. Manager reinforcement. Real work as the lab. Measurement that tracks behavior, not satisfaction scores. When you build that ecosystem, the workshop becomes one useful moment inside a system that keeps going.
The uncomfortable trade
Ecosystems take longer to build than a slide deck. They also compound. Workshops don't. Pick the one that matches the outcome you actually want.
