Archive for category: Collaboration

Stuckness (Nathan Bragg)

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Have you ever felt “stuck” or “blocked” when facing a particular issue or challenge?

This workshop uses image games and engages group intelligence to gently define challenges and offer possible solutions. “Stuckness” can be examined for individuals or for large groups of people. While similar to Image Conversation, the Stuckness workshop offers participants the opportunity to go deeper into the examination of a particular challenge.

Stuckness participants will:

  • practice creating images to illustrate a problem or challenge
  • help hold space for deep examination of challenges illustrated
  • practice creating images to illustrate a solution or desired outcome
  • practice achieving group consensus non-verbally
  • learn to visualize the practical and emotional steps it takes to go from thorny problem to best resolution.

This workshop is especially useful in team building and promoting team problem-solving.

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Going Deeper! How to Lead Change more Effectively (Yvonne Ruke Akpoveta)

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The workshop will go beyond methodologies and go deeper to explore the use of Empathy, Deep Listening, and Emotional Intelligence as critical tools to help more effectively lead and manage change. It will also include practical exercises to augment the participants’ learning. It will help participants to develop interpersonal skills that help them manage difficult situations, and relate more effectively with others within and outside the workplace in order to increased performance and create better working environments.

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Firewalking for a strong community spirit (Jutta Goldammer)

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Firewalking combines a festive atmosphere with personal and collective empowerment. It is ideal as a community building event strengthening the common vision and purpose. You’ll be thoroughly prepared mentally and physically in order to be able to safely walk over 400-600 °C hot glowing coals. You’ll be astonished to see how powerful you can be as collective in which each individual has connected to their purpose and experienced the full support of the whole group.

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Culture Map (Renate Bia Franke)

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Bringing transparancy into the cultural patterns of organizations can help to speed up transformational change. The culture map is basically rooted in the concept of the spiral dynamics by Claire Graves but made applicable for the organisational context. It is one of theses concepts that is so useful as a frame of mind in the back of your head because “it explains the world” – as a participant called it – and at the same time it can be used as a tool through which you can look at organisations.

We will explore the map in an interactive fashion  and give you an idea of your own culture map and how you can use it in an organisational context.

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Team Discovery (Nathan Bragg)

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Who is your team? What are their strengths? Where do they feel weakest or in need of improvement? Are they happy with the workload, or are they feeling over-burdened? How about you?

This workshop finds a non-threatening way to answer those questions and more.

The participants will:

  • learn the power of making interactive non-verbal polls
  • quickly learn the strengths of and challenges faced by teammates and how they feel about those attributes
  • potentially discover their own strengths and weaknesses and how they feel about those attributes

Warning: Make sure to play Icebreaker games (and perhaps also go through the Ice-Breaker workshop) beforehand to build trust among teammates. Trust is key here because the best first question may be: “I feel safe expressing my truth in this space.”

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Führung mit Köpfchen – Smarte Führung und Zusammenarbeit (Ute Franzen-Waschke)

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Schaffen Sie eine solide Grundlage – organisationsübergreifend – in dem Sie Ihre Führungsqualitäten mit Köpfchen auf die nächst höhere Stufe befördern. Wie das? Haben Sie schon von Conversational Intelligence® gehört? Wenn nicht, dann wird es höchste Zeit!
In diesem Workshop werden Sie herausfinden:

  • Was Conversational Intelligence® ist
  • Wie Conversational Intelligence® Ihnen und Ihrem Unternehmen helfen
    kann, Ihre Gesprächskultur dahingehend zu verbessern, dass bessere
    Beziehungen zu mehr Vertrauen, mehr Innovation, und damit zu einer
    gesünderen Firmenkultur führen kann
  • Wie Sie Ihre Führungsqualitäten auf die nächst höhere Stufe bringen können,
    in dem Sie sich die neuesten Erkenntnisse aus der Neurowissenschaft zu
    nutze machen, um ein gesünderes und produktiveres Arbeitsumfeld zu
    schaffen.
  • Bringen Sie Ihre Herausforderungen mit, denen Sie sich als Führungskraft
    stellen wollen und wir werden gemeinsam schauen, wie diese “mit Köpfchen”
    auf smarte Arte und Weise bewältigt werden können.
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“Wie gut hören Sie einander zu?” (Ute Franzen-Waschke)

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In diesem interaktiven Workshop erleben Sie und Ihre Mitarbeiter, wie Sie Ihre Gespräche am Arbeitsplatz nachhaltiger und zielführender gestalten können, einfach durch die Art und Weise wie Sie einander zuhören und aufeinander zugehen.

Am Ende des Workshops:

  • werden Sie verstehen, was Zuhören eigentlich bedeutet und was gutes Zuhören macht mit uns und den Menschen, denen wir zuhören
  • werden Sie mehr über die 4 Stufen des Zuhörens wissen
  • werden Sie wissen, wie Neurotransmitter – das sind Botenstoffe, die im Körper produziert werden und im Auftrag unseres Gehirns unseren Körper durchströmen – unsere Fähigkeit des Zuhörens beeinflussen, und welches Einfluss Sie auf den Ausstoß dieser Botenstoffe nehmen können
  • werden Sie in der Lage sein, beliebte Blindspots des Zuhörens zu erkennen und auszuschalten, damit eine bessere Beziehungsebene geschaffen werden kann als Basis für eine verbesserte Arbeit im Team und mit Kunden.
  • werden Sie Wegbereiter für eine Kultur des Zuhörens sein – die Grundlage für gesunde und zielführende Gespräche am Arbeitsplatz.
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This Changes Everything (Kirsten Siggins)

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We live in a complex global world where demands of leaders are increasing everyday. With a focus on transparency, inclusion, equality, agility, possibility and collaboration, how can leaders leverage themselves to live, work and play in a way that is respectful, sustainable, and most important, fun?

The answer is simple. Curious conversations. Hiding behind texts, emails and social media, conversational skills are the most important skills leaders are failing to engage in. Research out of Stanford is showing that 9 out of 10 conversations miss the mark. Research is also showing organizations are focused on ‘soft’ skills that have hard impacts: communication skills, critical thinking, agility – all of which require curiosity.

These are skills that are expected of leaders but are never taught. Curious conversations are the disruptor needed to thrive in our global, multigenerational workplace. In our interactive workshop, participants will experience how curious conversations are at the forefront of innovation and collaboration in a time where demands are high and resources are low. Participants will experience and learn:

  • The value of different perspectives, there is never just one way to do anything
  • Communication skills to shift leaders from reacting to intentionally responding
  • Self-awareness, clarity around how they are showing up as a leader, their impact and turning barriers into bridges
  • The skills needed to collaborate, innovate, problem solve & manage emotions. Skills that are currently expected of leaders but have never been taught.

An organizations success lies in their leaders’ ability to confidently disrupt the status quo, step out of comfort zones while also being inclusive and collaborative, as they reflect rather than react.

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The Art of Leading Change (Yvonne Ruke Akpoveta)

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Practicing Change Management is often considered both an Art and Science. This workshop focuses on the art of leading change and the needed competencies, going beyond ‘methodologies’ and ‘models’.

It also explores tools needed to lead change in today’s fast-paced and disruptive business environment, most especially as we embark into the fourth industrial revolution of AI, Robotics etc., where being agile and responsive to change is a must-have.

The workshop will delve into the complexities associated with navigating fear and resistance from a variety of stakeholders across the organization; working with senior leaders to get their buy-in and co-operation; and how to more effectively collaborate with internal project team members, and to overcome common barriers encountered during the process of leading and managing organizational change.

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Image Conversation (Nathan Bragg)

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Judgment is inherent in language. Both spoken and written language try to reduce complex ideas into something quickly digestible; a side effect is that language can feel like accusation: “Have you tried this…?” Or “This is how WE do it.” This sort of communication is subtly violent and often drives a wedge between people, separating “Us” into “Us/Them” groups. This violence is stripped away when we communicate through images.

Participants in this workshop will practice making images using their own bodies (and/or using objects in the room); they will be asked to “Show, don’t tell.” They also will also practice “listening” with their eyes; this is important because watchers must provide the words, if there are any to be said.

The participants will:

  • practice creating images to illustrate a problem or challenge
  • practice creating images to illustrate a solution or desired outcome
  • practice achieving group consensus non-verbally
  • learn to visualize the practical and emotional steps it takes to go from thorny problem to best resolution.

This workshop is especially useful in team building and promoting team problem-solving.

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