feedback forms · exit ticket · public workshops
Workshop Feedback Form.folder
Ratings are a health check. The real products are permissioned testimonials and a voted topic list for your next event — ninety seconds at the door.
// kit v2: a stage-ready HTML deck (presenter drawer, run-of-show timer, built-in QR codes) · poker-spec print-and-cut cards with backs and blanks · an A3 activity poster · manuals in A4 and US Letter with bookmarks · three license tiers (CC BY free / single event / organization).
The exit ticket for public workshops: four rating items on promise kept, pace, working-not-listening and standalone usefulness; a 0-10 recommendation score; and two open questions — one that collects quotable testimonials with a permission checkbox, one that votes on what you should run next.
The props are poker-spec print cards (63.5 × 88.9 mm, bleed and cut guides included) — instruction card, rating cards, testimonial card, demand card — sized so one sheet covers one attendee. No projector, no accounts: hand them out at minute 58, point at the box, and the feedback arrives before the room empties.
the run sheet
// this is the guide file, word for word — read it here, run from it here. the .md at the bottom of the page is the same text, offline.
Folder:
workshop-feedback-form· Category: feedback forms · any group size · 90 seconds to complete · at the door · paper or onlineLicense: CC BY 4.0
The exit ticket for public workshops: four rating items, one recommendation score, two open questions — ninety seconds at the door. Where a post-training survey chases transfer evidence, this form chases two assets every independent facilitator actually needs: quotable testimonials, and the topic list for the next event.
The exit ticket rule
A public workshop has no HR department to chase non-responders. The moment people step outside, the feedback is gone — not because they disliked the workshop, but because your workshop is one of forty things in their week. The exit ticket solves this with positioning, not nagging:
- The form is part of leaving, not homework after it. The box sits at the door; the card is poker-size, the pen is on the table.
- Ninety seconds is the polite maximum for a crowd already putting on coats. Four items, one score, two sentences — tested at the door, not in theory.
- Say it while pointing at the box: "Drop it on your way out — it decides what I run next." That last clause is true, and it converts.
Never promise "a quick form by email tomorrow". For public events, the next-day response rate rounds to zero.
Two assets, not a scorecard
The four rating items are a health check, not the product. The product is the two open questions:
| Open question | What it produces |
|---|---|
| "In one sentence: what did this workshop give you?" | Testimonials — quotable, permissioned marketing copy |
| "What workshop should we run next?" | A demand list — your next quarter of programming, voted by attendees |
An independent facilitator who collects these for a year has a catalog that writes itself: the testimonial file becomes the workshop page; the demand list becomes the calendar. That is a compounding asset. Averages of four items do not compound.
The quote permission box
The testimonial card carries one checkbox: "you may quote this — first name only". That single box keeps the form honest and the quotes usable:
- Anonymous by default; quotable by choice. Attendees write sharper sentences when they chose to be quoted.
- First name only. Full names on marketing pages raise eyebrows at public events; a first name plus the workshop name is enough social proof.
- Never edit a quote beyond typo fixes. If a quote is too vague to use, the honest move is to ask the attendee directly — not to sharpen it yourself.
Paper or online
Paper is the default at the door. A QR code on a slide looks modern and collects almost nothing: people intend to scan it later — the same "later" where next-day emails go to die. If you want an online version — for remote workshops, or a link that stays alive for stragglers — it is one click from the folder page, and the items are identical.
For fully remote workshops, paste the two open questions into the chat at minute 58 of 60, and let people answer in the chat itself. Public chat answers are implicitly permissioned quotes.
Known failure modes & rescues
- The box is beside the door, not at it. A table two steps inside collects half of one in the exit path. Rescue: the physical box must sit where people nearly bump into it on the way out.
- The testimonial question gets praised into uselessness. "Amazing workshop!" is not a quote. Rescue: the card's example shows a specific sentence ("I rewrote my kickoff agenda before lunch"), which sets the bar.
- Scores arrive, assets don't. If only ratings come back, the form was handed out without the "it decides what I run next" line. Rescue: say the line, every time, while pointing at the box.
Variations
- Paid workshops: quote the recommendation score (already on the card) in your follow-up email — "the last cohort scored it 9.2".
- Free community events: keep the form identical; the demand list matters more than the testimonials.
- Multi-session runs: collect the exit ticket every session and watch the recommendation score move — a drop between session one and two is the cheapest early-warning system you will ever install.
- Compliance-flavored documentation (Taiwan / Hong Kong): the same items double as course records for quality systems (TTQS course documentation, QF-style records) — file room-level summaries, never individual cards.
the debrief sheet
// the debrief questions, in full — the .md version prints on one page for the room.
Three numbers, two files, one meeting. Reading takes 10 minutes per event.
Use with
workshop-feedback-form-guide.md.
The 60-second read
- Recommendation score at a glance. The median of the 0-10 scores. 8.5 or higher: the workshop sells itself to returners. Below 6: read the item means before the testimonials — something structural is wrong.
- Quotable testimonial count. Sentences that pass the specific test — a named action, a before/after, a number. Two strong quotes per event is a good harvest; five is a great one.
- Top demanded topic. The answer that repeats. One repeat is a candidate; three repeats is your next event, already validated by the asking.
Item-by-item interpretation
| Item | Construct | Low (≤ 2.5) means | First action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Promise kept | The page or pitch oversold the content | Rewrite the description, not the workshop |
| 2 | Pace & length | Material crammed or stretched | Re-time the agenda blocks |
| 3 | Working, not listening | The workshop drifted into lecture | Cut one content block, add one exercise |
| 4 | Standalone usefulness | The useful part felt like a teaser for something paid | Move the teaser's payoff into the room |
Item 4 is the trust item for independent facilitators: the moment the room senses the workshop is a funnel, scores and testimonials decay together. Useful-without-upsell is a feature — protect it.
Reading the recommendation score
Compute NPS if you want the industry number: promoters (9-10) minus detractors (0-6), as percentages. But at workshop scale — under 30 responses — the percentage amplifies noise: one detractor moves NPS by three or more points.
At small scale, read the raw distribution instead:
- A pile of 9-10s and a pile of 0-3s means the workshop landed for one audience and missed another — check whether the two piles describe different job roles.
- A tight 6-8 band means solid but not remarkable: safe to keep running, not yet safe to raise the price.
Coding the two open questions
Testimonials → the quote file. Keep every permissioned quote in one running document, tagged with event name and date. When writing a workshop page, use quotes that name an action ("I rewrote my kickoff agenda"), not quotes that name you ("the facilitator was great"). The first kind convinces strangers; the second convinces no one.
Demand → the programming calendar. Cluster the answers into topics, then count votes. Publish the top three back to the attendees of that event ("you asked — here is the next quarter") — closing the loop is what converts one-time attendees into a following.
3 known failure modes of reading the results
- The best quote is anonymous. You cannot use it. Rescue: the permission checkbox is on the testimonial card for exactly this reason — point at it while handing cards out.
- One detractor's item scores hijack the redesign. A single hostile card is one person's experience. Rescue: cluster the demands and read the testimonials before touching the agenda.
- The demand list dies in a drawer. Collected and never acted on, attendees learn that the form is theater. Rescue: publish the next-quarter topic list back to the same email list — the loop has to be visible to keep working.
who it's for · what it leaves behind
Who is the Workshop Feedback Form for?
Independent facilitators, community organizers and anyone who runs public workshops — paid or free, in person or remote. It is built for rooms with no HR department to chase non-responders: the form is part of leaving, not homework after it. The same cards double as course records for quality systems where needed (TTQS course documentation in Taiwan, QF-style records in Hong Kong).
What's the difference from the Post-Training Survey?
Focus and output. The Post-Training Survey is a trainer's instrument for evidence of learning transfer — Likert constructs, a reverse-scored lie detector, Monday commitments. This form is an organizer's instrument for survival — it optimizes for two marketing assets: permissioned testimonials and a voted topic list. Ninety seconds at the door instead of five minutes at the end; a recommendation score instead of transfer items. If you run corporate training, take the survey; if you run public workshops, take the exit ticket.
Can my AI agent use this folder?
Yes. Every folder ships a SKILL.md skill file: frontmatter for matching, plus runnable prep commands — fetch the exit-ticket cards, pull the reading guide, build the live online version with formlm-cli. The three-step workflow (discover, install, run) lives on the skills page, every folder ships a one-command zip bundle, and the machine index is skills.json.
Is it really free?
Yes — CC BY 4.0, no account, no email wall inside a folder. Print it, run it, adapt the wording to your event, rebrand it for your own workshop series. Attribution keeps everything free.
make it live
The paper exit ticket is the default at the door — anonymous, 90 seconds, no devices to hunt. If you want the online version — the same 4 items, recommendation score and open questions as a live form, for remote workshops or a link that stays alive for stragglers — two ways:
for AI agents
$ formlm-cli smart generate --input "Workshop feedback exit ticket for public workshops and community events: 4 anonymous rating items (1-5) on promise kept, pace, working-not-listening and standalone usefulness, one 0-10 recommendation score, and two open questions - what the workshop gave you (quotable testimonial with permission checkbox) and what workshop should run next (demand list). Takes 90 seconds at the door"
Step 4 of the agent workflow: npm install -g @formlm/cli, log in once, and the prep above runs itself. The form and its data live in your own workspace.
— or, with a mouse —
Open the free workshop feedback form template on FormLM
and paste the items from workshop-feedback-form-assessment.json — the template already collects responses and the recommendation score.
// optional, not required — the paper version in this folder is complete on its own. free account on their side.
put it on the wall
The folder ships a single-file HTML deck that presents full-screen from one laptop. To run the activity on the room's big screen — submissions land on the wall in real time, the countdown and the spotlight stay in your hands, and the whole room joins with one scan — the scan-and-project companion is QRCard-AI:
See the trainer live-screen mode on QRCard-AI — one QR code on the wall, participants join and follow from their own seats.
// optional, not required — the deck in this folder already runs full-screen on a single laptop.
take this folder with you
// every file downloads as a plain file. no account, no email wall inside a folder.