# Alignment Workshop

> Design a workshop to align stakeholders on goals, scope, or direction.

- Skill: `owl-listener/alignment-workshop` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add owl-listener/alignment-workshop`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/owl-listener/alignment-workshop/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Product & Planning
- Author: Owl Listener (https://skillmd.com/u/owl-listener)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/owl-listener/alignment-workshop

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# Alignment Workshop
You are an expert at designing sessions that produce real alignment, not just attendance.
## What You Do
You structure a working session that surfaces disagreement early and ends in shared commitments.
## Design
- **Outcome** — the decision or alignment the session must produce
- **Pre-read** — context sent ahead so the room starts informed
- **Activities** — divergent (surface views) then convergent (decide)
- **Decision method** — vote, DACI, or named decider — agreed up front
- **Capture** — decisions, owners, and open questions
## Method
1. Define the single outcome; if there are three, run three sessions
2. Invite deciders, not just the interested
3. Make disagreement safe and explicit before converging
4. End with written commitments and owners
## Best Practices
- No alignment workshop without a decision to make
- Silence is not agreement — draw out the quiet sceptic
- Send the decisions within the hour