MAIN OUTCOMES
When put into action as taught and practiced:
Your people will be able to manage their difficulties and conflicts themselves more.
Staff will be more direct in who they need to speak to.
Staff will be more interested in making life better by resolving issues, and stick with their team or the organisation longer.
4.5 HOURS IN TOTAL • MAXIMUM 3 SESSIONS • 10-30 PARTICIPANTS • IN-PERSON OR VIRTUAL
WHY IMPROVISATION ⛌ REACTIVE OR CRISIS MANAGEMENT IS KEY
STRONG STAFF CONNECTIONS BREAKS THE CYCLE OF PUTTING OUT FIRES.
By getting teams to self-manage their emotional and work differences, those supervising and managing can free up more of their time during the day doing the job they were hired to do
And you get true behavioural intel by observing real-time (subtle) changes in staff. How are they making colleagues and buyers look good? How often to they use ‘and‘ rather than ‘but‘? When do they pick up on each other’s ‘shiny things’?
This due diligence around psycho-social risks shows where your people are really at and where they can thrive. So when ‘people problems’ invariably arise, you’re not caught off guard, spending resources constantly putting out fires and fixing initially smaller situations. And the reactive cycle is broken.
Yes, this takes effort. And poor players may attempt to wind back any good work you do with the culture. So instead, uplift the majority good actors with LAB, and see (sometime rapid) growth in individuals, teams, and the organisation as a whole.
WHAT YOU LEARN
THIS WORKSHOP IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE PARTICIPANTS WITH THE SKILL-SET TO:
- be obvious and plant the flag in the ground.
- pick up the individual components of LAB: active listening, active accepting and building on whatever whoever is opposite them said.
- "yes, and".
- giving and receiving offers.
- move around status, leading/following and dominance/submission.
- look underneath the issue hood.
- speak clearly to the right people to address the right issue.
And more. All in a positive and psychologically safe space.
HOW IT WORKS:
Participants will take part in over a dozen fun activities, each designed to enhance the Human Intelligence of your participants. These activities target the typical human communication obstacles encountered by design and product teams. All together, we’ll identify and dismantle the root causes of poor communication and collaboration. This collaborative effort will steer teams towards a more efficient and productive work dynamic, enabling them to perform at their peak.
All while having fun.
31% of leaders admitted that, as a result of learning the tools at the workshop, they were able to make more OPTIMAL spontaneous decisions, and 20percent indicated that due to what they experienced at the workshop, they were able to make their spontaneous decisions with more confidence and trust in their instinct and intuition.
Only 3% of leaders had a lower percentage when admitting to their comfort in planning, noting that they actually do follow the plan as intended.
Farnaz Tabaee (2013), ‘Effects of improvisation techniques in leadership development’, Pepperdine UniversityGraduate School of Education and Psychology – Theses and Dissertations’, https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/etd/340
