Change Leadership and Change Management

Change Leadership and Change Management

When we lead our culture of innovation or innovative mindset leadership workshops, we try to help the group zero in on a focus area to ideate on that is valid and important to them. This is an area that is a problem (or opportunity) and can have an impact if it is affected. Change leadership and change management are very common purposes for our programs these days. One specific focus that often gets selected is about encouraging change and adaptability. Learn about popular frameworks in this guide.
CultureCon Conference Organization Culture

CultureCon Conference for Organizational Culture and Connection

CultureCon is one of my favorite conferences to attend each year because they excel at fostering these connections, yielding lasting results for me and many other participants I met. At the last CultureCon, I witnessed the magic of 30-minute breaks between sessions. It's almost like the sessions exist to make these breaks possible. The real value might not be so much in the sessions themselves but the conversations and connections that happen in between. Real collaborations form as a result.
LEGO® Serious Play Guide

LEGO® Serious Play® Open Source PDF Guide

Have you seen or experienced a LEGO® workshop for adults and are interested in learning more about how it's done? There is a formal methodology called LEGO® Serious Play® that's backed by research. Whether you're a facilitator, team leader, or gamification enthusiast, the open source LEGO® Serious Play® PDF guide is an invaluable resource that can help you master this powerful methodology.

LEGO® Workshops for Organizations and Business with LEGO® Serious Play®

You may have seen a workshop done with LEGO® pieces in an organization. There is a specific methodology for using these bricks, blocks, and characters in training or learning and development programs. LEGO® Serious Play® is a facilitation methodology that resonates with me. It's an approach that can make a workshop or training experience highly engaging, interactive, reflective, collaborative, and memorable. All elements I'm focused on in the L&D experience I develop.
Six Thinking Hats Training Workshop

Six Thinking Hats Training (Ideation and Brainstorming Technique)

The Six Thinking Hats technique by Edward de Bono is a powerful tool for enhancing group creativity and decision-making. By structuring the way we think, not only can we increase efficiency and reduce conflict, but we also foster a conducive environment for generating innovative solutions. Whether you're tackling everyday problems or major organizational decisions, the Six Thinking Hats method provides a clear path for exploring every angle and unleashing the full potential of collaborative thinking.
World Cafe Hosting Facilitation Guide

The World Café Method: Hosting and Facilitating Collaborative Discussion

The World Café Method is a simple and a powerful tool to foster deep, meaningful conversations in various settings - from corporate environments, to community dialogue or listening sessions, to educational workshops. This participatory design process is helpful at leveraging collective intelligence, encouraging collaboration, and exploring complex topics through discussion. We often recommend a World Café approach to people who want an interactive, discussion filled event - but may be newer to facilitation.
Transformation Workshop

Transformation Workshops

When we design our transformation workshops and programs, we pull from many of the areas we’ve been studying, developing, acting on, and teaching for years. We integrate our program design and facilitation with transformation areas like leadership development, innovation, idea generation, growth mindset, design thinking, VUCA world, adapting to change, storytelling, and learning and development. We can also focus on any of these directions as part of the transformation workshop. Here's an example description of a workshop on transformation to give you an idea of our approach. In this example you can see we use storytelling as the powerful vehicle for transformation learning (and doing). 
Transformation Training

Transformation Training

Transformation is happening in many ways in our world. Organizations are transforming. Transformation is the vision, strategy and thus the learning and development need. Professionals are transforming doing their work in new ways and working on new things with new technologies or mindsets. Transformation is everywhere and we have to transform with it. Our transformation training pulls from many of the things we’ve been researching, doing and teaching for years. These are concepts like leadership development, innovation, idea generation, design thinking, VUCA world, adapting to change, storytelling, learning and development, combined with program design and facilitation.