Creative Visioning
Lessons from the Past - Footsteps to the Future
This half day to one day workshop will creatively and practically explore the demands on a team - past, present and future - in a dynamic, engaging and non-threatening way.
Footsteps to the Future addresses one key issue for many teams and organizations; that it is the baggage from the past which is often most prominent in people's minds which prevents them from moving forward in an integrated and unified way. Often they distort the background picture of many actions, planning and conversations being carried out in a spirit of co-operation. This session is aimed at capturing the extent to which team members recognise the continual change process they have experienced over the recent past and their success at adapting their behaviour to remain effective throughout the process of change. They can then move to an anticipation of future organisational change and an acceptance of the corresponding professional change this will necessitate.
To maximise the impact of the workshop, thoughts, ideas and actions are pictorially represented in metaphor format by the group, supported by our corporate artist who works in tandem with the lead facilitator. Using metaphors can be an effective & non-threatening way to describe and bring to life ideas, intentions, feelings and thoughts. They also provide a safe medium to diffuse and articulate sensitive or contentious issues without the recourse to finger pointing or apportioning blame.
Benefits for your team
- Provides a safe, inclusive & non-threatening environment to explore issues that are significant to the team
- Uses the power of metaphor through live cartooning to lift the learning
- Increases staff awareness of and responses to issues
- Motivates teams and provides a focus on working towards shared goals
- Appeals to participants of all ages, backgrounds, levels and abilities
Key features
- Led by a Lead Facilitator and supported by our Corporate Artist
- Works with groups from 6 to 45
- Selected cartoon outputs are rendered & digitised post-event and made available as a Presentation Journal, on CD or as web-based digital files
Organisations that have used 'Creative Visioning - Footsteps to the Future'
- Dunfermline Building Society HR management team
- RBS HRSS Practice Team
- Lloyds TSB Scotland Corporate Banking
- Skills Development Scotland
- BOC Financial Planning
What BOC wanted
The underlying question BOC wanted to address was "What are we about as a financial planning team and how do we want to work as a team".
The drivers behind this were:
- Rebuilding morale and team spirit
- Putting a bit more fun back into everyone's work
- Address practicalities of our split location
- Appreciate the different demands people face
Based on this initial brief, Maximillion responded with the provision of a dynamic and interactive development day, led by Keith Garside, Lead Facilitator, and Graham Ogilvie, Corporate Artist.
What they said
Happy or delighted with:
- Overall contribution of account manager prior to event
- Quality of pre-event information
- Suitable contact prior to the event
- Overall contribution of your project manager
- Style & quality of presentation
- Relevance of session content to the organization
- Effectiveness at summarizing outcomes and action planning
- Friendliness & attitude of event staff
- Practicality of learning tools
- Overall enjoyment of your event
- Friendliness & attitude of staff
- Willingness to respond to your needs
- Overall contribution of your event manager
"The session exceeded our expectations and we were very satisfied that the learning outcomes were reached".