Collaborative workshops or meetings offer many advantages:
Communication and alignment
Does your organization spend too much time working in silos? Does it seem like your team members aren’t heading in the right direction? Does everyone have a biased view due to their function or role? Is information not being communicated clearly or circulated uniformly? Are some team members criticizing the organization’s lack of transparency or vision?
This workshop will allow you to gather together key stakeholders no matter what their role for a healthy, constructive discussion on the company’s strategic orientation, its vision and its current and future challenges, both in terms of the competitive landscape and internal assets. The workshop’s format allows you to push your thinking beyond your usual limits on subjects such as disruptive new competitors, new revenue opportunities (through new business models), etc. It’s a time for listening to and empowering the viewpoints of every participant.
Collective intelligence and creativity
Do you feel like you’re turning in circles? That the organization is robotically repeating the same formula but hoping for a different result? Do you feel the need to challenge the status quo? Are you hoping to innovate?
As the old adage says, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Having a lot of separate, good ideas is fine, but a team that builds something together out of each person’s strengths is even better! Confronting different points of view in real time will allow you to push your ideas further and more accurately head in the right direction.
Engagement and ownership
Are your team members unmotivated? Do they feel like their opinion doesn’t count? Do they not understand what is expected of them or, worse, how they can contribute to accomplishing the company’s vision and goals? Does the hierarchical structure of your organization weigh too heavily on them?
This workshop’s collaborative formula and procedural guidelines enable the values of sharing, respect and transparency to be brought to life in a very concrete way. This means it is highly likely that participants will feel they are being listened to more carefully and therefore will be more engaged with the subject. There’s no such thing as a bad idea! Suggestions that are put forward by a group of people can be more easily adopted by this same group.