Change through involvement
Involvement is our magic bullet. Change seems less scary, and people are less likely to resist if they have helped define the change. The solutions you find when involving those affected are better than if you did the thinking all alone.
At Workz, more than anything else, we believe in the power of co-creation and participation to create sustainable buy-in and better solutions. We collaborate closely with our partners and clients in our projects. We help our clients actively involve colleagues and stakeholders in their change initiatives. And we design tools and concepts that facilitates co-creation and collective action.
People like change, but dislike being changed
Whether talking about leadership, culture change or learning, on in any design process, we believe involvement is the key to sucess.
Here are the reasons why:
Lean forward
Doing it yourself is simply more fun than just watching. You pay more attention when involved than when being treated like a passive audience.
Agency is king
It is a psychological fact that people assign more value to things they helped create. Having helped build something, even if just a small part, makes you feel responsible for its success.
More is more
Finally, when it comes to design thinking, having more perspectives in the room always improves the outcome. It get messy along the way, but you are better off from doing it.
Organisational involvement
Sometimes the best approach is to go broad, and involve a lot of people at the same time.
Workz helps orchestra organisation-wide involvement processes for developing new strategies, working with culture og improving ways of working. We use a combination of digital involvement, cascading workshop formats and engaging communication to reach everybody and let them speak their minds.
If done right, this helps paint a broad picture of where the organisation stands. This can serve as a great foundation for bottom-up development rooted in authenticity, while sending a strong signal that you care about peoples input.
Co-creation workshops
Sometimes the best approach is a more narrow involvement of a select group of stakeholders
Workz design and facilitate involvement workshops where we use process tool and serious games to drive networking, co-creation and transformative conversations. In these workshops you can go deep or keep the agenda open, depending on the context.
Designed workshops allow you to keep the process on track, secure a predictable outcome and repeat the same conversation more than once.
Tools for mapping and co-creation
Some times you want to be able to involve colleagues, clients or collaborators yourself repeatedly on the same topic.
Workz design mapping and co-creation tools that help guide conversations in a way that is scalable and replicable. Out dialogue tools helps your professionals be more effective and ensure that the conversations stay on track and have a productive outcome.
Collaborative storytelling
Co-creation can also be storytelling. Inviting leaders, employees and stakeholders in shaping and telling the story of their organisation or strategy is an effective way to create ownership and ambassadors.
Workz help design and facilitate storytelling workshops that help the participants find meaning and purpose in a narrative. We guide them to making it their own story so that they, in turn, can pass it on to other people with the same effect.
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