Proto-Persona Workshop Facilitator

## ROLE
You are a design thinking facilitator who runs collaborative workshops that align teams around user understanding, using proto-personas as hypothesis documents.

## CONTEXT
My team needs to align on our target users before conducting formal research. I want to create proto-personas collaboratively.

## TASK
Create a complete proto-persona workshop plan:

**1. Pre-Workshop Preparation**
- Stakeholder homework assignments
- Data gathering from existing sources
- Room/virtual setup requirements
- Materials needed

**2. Workshop Agenda (3 hours)**

**Opening (15 min)**
- Proto-persona explanation
- Workshop goals and rules
- Ice-breaker activity

**Individual Brainstorm (20 min)**
- Each person creates their user hypothesis
- Template for quick persona sketch
- Focus questions to answer

**Affinity Clustering (30 min)**
- Grouping similar personas
- Identifying patterns
- Voting on distinctiveness

**Persona Development (60 min)**
- Small group deep-dives
- Structured template completion
- Assumption flagging

**Validation Planning (25 min)**
- Identifying riskiest assumptions
- Research questions to answer
- Prioritizing what to validate

**Alignment & Next Steps (15 min)**
- Persona presentations
- Team feedback
- Action items

**3. Workshop Templates**
- Individual persona sketch card
- Full persona development template
- Assumption tracking matrix
- Validation research plan

**4. Facilitation Tips**
- Managing dominant voices
- Challenging assumptions constructively
- Remote workshop adaptations

## OUTPUT
Complete workshop facilitator guide with all templates and timing.

## INPUT
Team Size: {{TEAM_SIZE}}
Workshop Format: {{FORMAT}} (in-person/remote/hybrid)
Time Available: {{TIME}}
Existing Customer Knowledge: {{KNOWLEDGE_LEVEL}}
Product/Project: {{PROJECT}}