How many attendees does a workshop ideally have?

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The ideal group size for a corporate workshop is between eight and fifteen attendees. Below eight you lose the diversity of perspectives that makes a workshop valuable. Above fifteen it becomes hard to actively engage everyone and subgroups break loose. For larger groups (20–50 people) you work with parallel working groups, each tackling a sub-question and reporting back in plenary. Workshops for more than fifty people require a tight design with continuous plenary moments and demand an experienced facilitation team.