Consultant Sims has suffered through many uninspiring workshops, but here she focuses on the positive, giving step-by-step directions to making the content and infrastructure of workshops and meetings work with, and not against, attendees. She pays significant attention to whole-brain learning, which she explains not only in theory but in terms of how to activate it. She shows how to conduct a quick needs analysis of participants to choose types of sessions, where to locate the meeting, and how to ensure participants come away with knowledge, not just information. She gives activities, useful metaphors, ice breakers, tricks of the trade, materials, assessments, and ways to follow through on assignments. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)