Corporate In-Person and Virtual Taxonomy Workshops
Benefits of scheduling your own corporate taxonomy workshop:
- Less costly than sending three or more employees to a conference workshop
- Can be customized to be more relevant to your needs
- Can be scheduled at a date of your convenience
- Teaches more people in your organization about taxonomies for greater awareness and buy-in
- Fosters cross-team dialog about the the possibilities for taxonomies in your organization
All workshops are divided into sections/modules, and different attendees may attend different modules as appropriate for their interests and levels of experience, including various taxonomy project stakeholders and taxonomy creation/editing practitioners. Workshops are for 4 – 30 participants.
Hedden Information Management offer three tiered options for corporate taxonomy workshops:
- Minimally customized standard conference workshop on taxonomy training (2 – 7 hours)
- Customized taxonomy training workshop from a selection of outline topics and semi-customized exercises. (4 -14 hours)
- Customized + design taxonomy training workshop from a selection of outline topics, customized exercises, plus interactive taxonomy design activities to get you started on your own taxonomy or to test/validate and existing taxonomy. (4 – 16 hours)
For a list of possible workshop topics, see the page:
– Corporate taxonomy workshop topics
For further ideas of potential workshop topics, see the page with outlines for:
– Upcoming in-person conference taxonomy workshops
– Currently offered on-demand video course
Workshop price includes:
- Pre-planning meetings (for content, logistics, technology, etc.)
- Workshop content updating.
- Workshop delivery, exercise and activity facilitation, and ample Q&A time
- File(s) of presentation slides for unrestricted internal distribution
- Right to record the workshop and to distribute the recording internally
Workshop does not include:
- Full customization of presentation content with all or most examples from the organization’s content or type of content (although this can be arranged for an additional charge).
- Answering specific case questions outside of the workshop session time (although add-on taxonomy consulting services can be arranged for an additional charge).
Logistics:
- All instruction is done solely by Heather Hedden.
- All workshops are available onsite or remote live online on your hosted web meeting platform. In most cases onsite may also be hybrid for remote employees. (Hybrid is more challenging for taxonomy design activities, though.)
- The hours can be distributed over multiple days as appropriate.
- Workshops can usually be scheduled within as little as 6 weeks.
- Online workshops are available worldwide and can be delivered starting as early as 7:00 am US Eastern time, and ending as late as 11:00 pm US Eastern time.
- For onsite workshops, all instructor travel expenses (train or airfare, ground transportation, parking, tolls, hotel, meals, possibly car rental, and personal car mileage if local) must be paid. Exceptions to paying all travel may be made if the instructor’s travel is combined with another business purpose.
- Onsite workshops are available worldwide. There may be a supplemental fee for long-distance travel time during business hours (waived if the instructor’s travel is combined with another purpose). If desired, the client organization may hire simultaneous interpreters and audio systems at their own expense for non-English speaking audiences.
Please e-mail or call (978-467-5195) Heather Hedden to discuss your needs and workshop rates.
