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At the Center for Civic Design, we believe the first step to making future improvements is to look backwards and understand current practices. This gives you an opportunity to zoom out and see bigger opportunities for improvement. Use this guide and related tools to run an interactive, information-gathering workshop with your team.  \nThe best time to run a debrief workshop is immediately following an election. Experiences are fresh and you likely have ample runway to implement changes before the next election.  \nWhat's this guide for?  \nThis guide will walk you through planning and running a debrief workshop. By the end of the workshop, you will have a better understanding of current successes and pain points in your election operations, as well as confidence running engaging sessions for your team.  \nHow to use this guide?  \nThis guide is one of 3 tools to help you plan a debrief workshop:  \n● Planning and facilitation guide: the guide you are reading now. It includes recommendations and considerations for setting goals, planning activities and logistics, running the workshop, and planning next steps.  \n● Planning worksheet: guided questions based on this guide with space to write and process your thoughts. Think of it as your working draft. Click here for the Planning Worksheet.  \n● Workshop moderator guide template: the final agenda that you will use to run your workshop. Click here for the Workshop moderator guide template  \nWhat happens next?  \nThe final section of this guide includes wrap-up actions. These lay the groundwork forgathering and prioritizing information learned in the debrief. In early 2025, CCD will publish a follow-up guide to help you prioritize and use your learnings to plan for future improvements.  \nWhat is this guide based on?  \nThis guide is based on interviews about planning with staff from 5 different election offices across the county, as well as our own experience running workshops.  \nSetting goals for your workshop 4  \nPlanning your workshop activities 5  \nPlanning other workshop logistics 14  \nCreating the agenda 15  \nPost-workshop next steps 16  \nClear goals keep you focused. They make sure you choose the right activities, invite the right attendees, and plan logistics like how much time you need and what you need to bring.  \nHow to come up with the right goals  \nStart at the end. What do you want to learn by the end of your workshop? You can generate goals by completing this sentence:  \nBy the end of the workshop, we will  [know, understand, learn]   \nThis workshop is meant to be reflective and exploratory. That means your goals will be broad.  \nWrite your goals  \nWe recommend no more than 3 goals for a debrief session. More than 3 is too much to juggle. Choose 3 goals for longer sessions of 2 hours. For shorter sessions, 1 to 2 goals will work best.  \nThese are our suggestions for goals for an exploratory debrief workshop:  \nBy the end of the workshop, we will:  \n● Understand problems in the voting process  \n● Learn what works well in the voting process  \nAdd or adapt these goals as needed, but keep them broad and exploratory. You can also set a guiding topic, such as mail-in voting or new equipment at the polling place. Your goals would then be:  \n● Understand the problems with mail-in voting  \n● Learn what works well with our new voting machines  \nIn the next guide, we will help you prioritize and create plans for solutions. 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