Co-creation and participation

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 on our projects. We help our clients actively involve colleagues and stakeholders in their change initiatives. And we design tools and concepts that facilitate co-creation and collective action.

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Benefits

People like change, but dislike being changed

Whether talking about leadership, culture change or learning, in any design process, we believe involvement is the key to success.

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.

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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 gets messy along the way, but you are better off for doing it.

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Organisational involvement

Sometimes the best approach is to go broad and involve a lot of people at the same time.

Workz helps orchestrate organisation-wide involvement processes for developing new strategies, working with the 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.

Copenhagen University strategy involvement 2010
Sustainable Build, 2016
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Co-creation workshops

Sometimes the best approach is a more narrow involvement of a select group of stakeholders

Workz designs and facilitates involvement workshops where we use process tools 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.

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Tools for mapping and co-creation

Sometimes you want to be able to involve colleagues, clients or collaborators yourself repeatedly on the same topic.

Workz designs mapping and co-creation tools that help guide conversations in a way that is scalable and replicable. Our dialogue tools help your professionals be more effective and ensure that the conversations stay on track and have a productive outcome.

Story Line™ visual process mapping
Working with customer centricity for the Danish Agricultural Agency.
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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 helps 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.

Got any questions?

mj@workzchange.com +45 23 39 23 52
Want to know more about participation and co-creation? Contact us to see how we can drive change through involvement together.
Contact Morten Jaeger