Setting the right environment for creative, strategic problem-solving
Facilitating events that unlock stakeholder collaboration to achieve business outcomes
THE CHALLENGE
We’ve delivered full, multi-day and part-day events both in-person and virtually to help a variety of clients, either as a standalone engagement or as a key component of a broader project engagement. While the clients and their challenges varied, our approach means we take a consistent approach to understanding, planning for and running these events. The challenges these clients encountered included:
Worthwhile ideas or initiatives struggling to achieve stakeholder buy-in or gather the momentum needed to succeed
Teams not on the same page, so efforts pulled in too many different directions and competed against each other for traction
The pressures of day-to-day work make it difficult to take focused time and headspace for true problem-solving
Over the past couple of years, organisations have struggled to bring people together in meaningful and effective ways to collaborate on the things that truly matter. Increasingly dispersed teams and the reliance on video-enabled meetings make it difficult to get everyone together to have the deep exploratory conversations and playful, creative interactions that elevate work from transactional to transformational.
OUR APPROACH
Setting a common goal and establishing trust through shared understanding
Now that remote and varied work locations have become the norm for most of us, STCK believes organisations greatly benefit from having a great, creative and constructive reason to bring people together in person. And if that’s not possible, virtual spaces need a tailored design that unlocks creativity and collaboration.
More than simply ideating, we believe it is crucial to give space to have difficult conversations that overcome assumptions, biases and breakdown organisation politics.
Bringing sponsors and stakeholders on the journey
Designed with tangible outcomes in mind, we worked closely with stakeholders to ensure engagements are fit for purpose and achieve objectives co-created with the sponsor.
Cultivating the right environment for productive collaboration
Meaningful interactions don’t just happen by themselves; they have to be shaped. We planned, prepared and facilitated each event to ensure participants:
Are the right people to participate and make decisions
Have the right information available in-session
Are stepped through the right process to support their thinking and reach the right outcomes
Have the right tools and materials to take part effectively
Are supported with an environment (physical and social) that helps them participate with the right mindset and behaviours
Creating momentum for meaningful action
To ensure these events aren’t just a one-off and their value is realised long after everyone returns to their day-to-day job, we wrapped sessions with a set of materials that capture what was discussed, agreed and committed to.
OUTCOMES
Crafting a future that sticks
Aligned stakeholders with a shared understanding of a collective challenge
Group clarity on purpose, value and strategic direction
Solutions and delivery paths with stakeholder support driven by the confidence they’ve had a hand in its development
Public and shared commitment to a path forward