Day In The Life Of (DILO) • WorkshopBank
Day In The Life Of (DILO) • WorkshopBank is a relationship mapping exercise for closure and transfer: it helps participants close the session and carry learning into the next action.
How to run it
- Choose whether to run a Day-in-the-Life (DILO) or Week-in-the-Life (WILO).
- Purpose is to help them achieve greater job satisfaction.
- Results are 100% confidential and won’t be used in reviews.
- A technique to map a “Day In the Life Of” a role or group of roles.
- Objectives To document the entire set of activities for a member of staff/role holder.
- To provide a high-touch way of showing the extent of someone’s role.
- But improve we must because those who identify as having a poor work-life balance are more likely to experience problems in their relationships, health and overall happiness.
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Prompts to use +
Choose whether to run a Day-in-the-Life (DILO) or Week-in-the-Life (WILO).
A technique to map a “Day In the Life Of” a role or group of roles.
Objectives To document the entire set of activities for a member of staff/role holder.
To provide a high-touch way of showing the extent of someone’s role.
But improve we must because those who identify as having a poor work-life balance are more likely to experience problems in their relationships, health and overall happiness.
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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Day In The Life Of (DILO) • WorkshopBank. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Choose whether to run a Day-in-the-Life (DILO) or Week-in-the-Life (WILO).; A technique to map a “Day In the Life Of” a role or group of roles.; Objectives To document the entire set of activities for a member of staff/role holder.; To provide a high-touch way of showing the extent of someone’s role.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from WorkshopBank; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including WorkshopBank.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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