Workshops

I have a Dream Workshop – What is the best possible future for our company?

A Danish Bank spent one super focused day, debating the future of their company. It gave the employees an opportunity to feed the leadership team with concrete ideas; a leadership team that were positively impressed with the ideas and work their employees brought forward (we asked them to do some homework, and they went completely over the hill. Lesson for all leaders of tomorrow: You are already sitting on a goldmine. Just ask you colleagues what they dream about). Shared vision, proactiveness, creative problem solving, and value in the eyes of the clients were some of the issues addressed. A great day with an enthusiastic group of finance folk, awful weather, beautiful surroundings, and strange food.

Meaning Mining Workshop – Finding your compass in the ever changing seas of tomorrow

What is the meaningfulness of what you do?  As one participant answered: “If I have to be honest, 90% of what we do at my company is utterly meaningless. And the same goes for the rest of the people in this room”. Wow! Imagine if everybody dared to be so honest. This statement came from a workshop with 15 really huge players in the B2B market. We discussed how to handle a crisis, how to market your stuff in the future, and what the world really needs. Nothing concrete was produced, but the value of reflecting on what you do, not just mindlessly ploughing ahead – because you can and the others do it too – is a need that so many people seem to have. Ask yourself: Is the only reason why people are still doing business with you, that the alternative does not yet exist? Is it time to jump a curve and deliver something of genuine value that could really make you heart beat faster?

Getting the best out of people Workshop

Success in the future is not about “more” it is about “better”. That means not getting more out of people, but getting something better out of them. The Americans might work long hours, but many of them admit that they use up to a quarter of each workday drinking coffee, updating their facebook profiles, or picking each others noses. And banning facebook will not help. At Carlsberg beer was once free for all employees. In the name of political correctness, a limit of 7 beers per workday was introduced. The result: A steep rise in drunken people. Barriers and control will get the worst out of many employees. Trust and meaningful visions will get the best out of them we say: “Tear down these walls, Mr. president”. “Let your people go”. We cannot order enthusiasm, we cannot plan for ideas. People are not resources (HR). They have human potential (HP). And they are all just superheroes in disguise looking for a phone booth (for the not so abstract thinkers – the phone booth is your organisation).

Scenario & Dilemma Workshop

In this workshop you will discuss several scenarios for the future and the impact given choices will have on you. It’s a tailor-made workshop that requires some time and energy from the client side. Prior to the workshop, we will find the soft spots, sore toes and taboos and imagine what the future will look like under different circumstances. We line out the dilemmas and integrate it all into visual scenarios. The client in the picture is the Danish Lawyers Council (app 250 participants) at their yearly seminar. The topic was “innovation”, and as one participant said afterwards: “I feel like I just spent 2 weeks on vacation”. The two-day seminar covered tools for innovation, and an interactive workflow with scenarios, presenters representing the scenarios and dialogue tied together with collaboration software.

Blindspotting workshop

Innovation often lie in areas where we don’t pay enough attention, in the places we don’t look – the blind spots. The Blindspotting workshop gives you the tools to see more, wider, better and ask the right questions. To see what everyone else could see, and to think what nobody else thinks. You will learn to visualise, define success, master the creative potential of your brain, change perspective, “listen louder”, and much more. We have run this workshop many, many times with journalists, nurses, politicians, kids, students, the deaf, engineers, architects, and with people from planet shipping, finance, and many many more.

Future Based Ideas Development workshop

What is an idea? When is an idea great? What ideas will fit the strategy of our organisation? Or change it? Generating ideas is easy but often it feels like going to “Brainstorm Island”, having fun and drinks, just to go back to “Worklandia” in the evening, where nothing new ever happens. This workshop ties ideas development to strategy, future, the world outside, and your hopes and dreams for the coming year – or years. A FBID workshop is almost always part of every project we do, but has great value standing on it’s own. For us, thinking out of the box is cool, but if you really need great ideas it’s not good enough to swing a cat around in its tail or paint dolphins in the ceiling. FBID is a method that can propel you directly from idea to success. Which means we only teach it to people with a genuine wish to make a positive difference.

Trendmapping Workshop

In this workshop you and your colleagues will organize and prioritize the latest trends and important tendencies for your organization, understanding of clients/citizens, strategy or product/service launch. The result can be a clear overview of which trends shall be acted upon. It can be an “organisation of ignorance” helping you to ask the right questions, or it can give you a “filter” for deciding what you choose to believe in. So, moneywise – this workshop can help you profit from existing and new trends or save you from waisting valuable ressources : Do you believe in Do-it-yourself or Professionalism? Funky Holism (people choosing only really cheap + really expensive) and the death of the middle market? Work-life-balance or intrapreneurship? Clean and Green Tech or “Undo Last Disaster”? We will specially design the trend cards for the world you are heading into, and hence you can buy your own futures game afterwords and play it again and again – no longer telling your colleagues what will be important in the future but letting them play their way to the important conclusions.

The trendmapping game can also just be great fun for people who need to meet, greet, talk and get to know each other better.

Life Prison workshop – Getting people to work together is the corner stone for success

The successful organisations of the future are moving “from the most to the best”, “from servicing to activating” and “from the clock to the compass”.

In other words, we can no longer expect that success will come from creating more, more and more, servicing clients and citizens that do not need more, governed by time and money. The future is about creating something better, activating all interested parties to co-create, guided by norms, principles, and values.

If you agree, the Life Prison game is a great way to start. Forget the line “how do I get people to….”, and let them figure out for themselves how to get the best out of life, their own potential and the potential of others. Life Prison uses the Enneagram in a playful way, allowing the players to reach a deeper understanding of motivation and behaviour. And it’s great fun to hear a person come to the conclusion “Oh my, I am such a perfectionist. I’m loosing out on so much input from others. And I’m having no fun” – when you can see everyone else is smiling, thinking “yes, we’ve been trying to tell you that for years”.