News from the human side of change

Empowerment – Bridging the gap

Empowerment has often become a celebrated buzzword rather than a lived reality.

The human side of Strategy Activation

Learn why a people-centered approach to implementing change is key for successful strategy activation.

Exploring the history from past to present, danish labour union impact

Learn how our colleagues developed a learning tool with FH and Arbejdemuseet for Danish labour unions. .

Inspiration meets connection

Insights from the global ATD conference and the creative process behind our booth design.

Meeting design that Works

10 concepts that can inspire you when developing future events.

Get the most out of inclusive event design

7 ways to be inclusive with your events in the workplace.

Creating a shared language on business integrity

3 tips for you and your team when approaching business integrity.

Get the most out of your consultants

Five tips all about collaborating efficienctly through clarity and transparency

Co-creation in game design

Rethinking corporate communication

Discover innovative strategies and insights that can transform how businesses communicate internally and externally.

Why is soft change so hard?

Soft and hard change is often mixed together, but they present different underlying challenges and call for different approaches

The origin story of Wallbreakers®

The origin of Wallbreakers explains why it is a best-seller for teaching change leadership.

Leading Through Change

We helped Nuuday design a leadership programme tailored to their specific transformation and organisational journey.

Bringing the Cold War to life

Reliving the Cold War to learn about the nature of democracy.

Support your child during blood sampling

Booklets help take the stress out of blood sampling for children in clinical trials.

Backbriefing for Empowerment

On using backbriefing to accelerate alignment and autonomy.

How to make corporate learning engaging?

What are the main challenges in corporate learning and development? This article gives you a brief overview of 4 methods that, in our experience, have a positive impact on corporate learning and development.

Voters of the future

Boosting civic participation through immersive role-playing at an impressive stage.

3 principles for engaging your audience virtually

3 tips for designing virtual events that engage our clients' audiences.

Systems 1 and 2 in leadership development

In leadership, we often rely on rational decision-making but overlook the power of fast and deliberate choices. At Workz, we're reshaping leadership training to engage both systems.

Onboarding: The Meeting Between organisations and new hires

7 suggestions to make the most of you onboarding.

The next level onboarding experience at Universal Robots

Wordsmithery – Tips for executive speechwriting

Highlights from our symposium on executive speechwriting.

Leadership and cultural blind spots

What leaders see and what they don't impacts organisational culture.

Leadership training from a distance

Inspirational session on conducting virtual workshops using Workz' leadership simulations.

Wargaming – Perspectives on the Ukraine crisis

Reflections from wargaming session on the crisis in Ukraine.

Communicating your way to a new culture

Three principles of communication for working with culture.

Board games we love – the 2021 edition

Our recommendations for light and enjoyable games.

Strategy activation toolkit

On how a leading dairy company use backbriefing to build traction behind their new strategy.

Case study: British Sailing Team

The British Sailing Team, the most successful Olympic sailing team of all time, used Bridgebuilders® as a shared framework for improving performance.

3 steps to leading values

Leading with the power of soft change.

Addressing the needs of your people

Questions to get started

Global reach, local action – Hybrid conferences

How can organisations integrate the advantages of face-to-face activities into virtual settings?

The hybrid summit matrix

What do we really mean when we talk about hybrid events?

Going virtual all the way

How do you set strategic direction and strengthen a shared sense of purpose and community during a global pandemic?

Train to win

How can leadership simulations be used to harness critical change leadership skills?

Campaigning for employee well-being

Tools for creating a better work culture.

Taking the experience online

COVID urged a rapid digital transformation for us as well. Here is what we learned.

Storytelling as a leadership tool

Storytelling techniques for organisational change.

Benefits of virtual leadership summits

The benefits of going virtual in turbulent times.

Conquering five fears of virtual involvement

How can we ensure involvement for employees and leaders in a virtual business setting?

Engaging summits in the shadow of Corona

A recap of our virtual symposium on organising virtual events

A Week of Play 2020

Looking back at A Week of Play 2020

Mapping the strategic potential

A roadmap to strategic innovation

Leading from Trust

Trust, the secret ingredient.

Room for involvement

Find room for honest and deep involvement

Symposium highlights: anchoring sustainability

Highlights from our symposium on anchoring sustainability.

Partnering up with IMD Business School

A proud and warm welcome - meet our new partner IMD.

Leading with Global Impact

How do you design a global leadership academy with the best of analog and digital learning?

Get your message into the classroom

Five pieces of advice for organisations wanting to get their message into the classrooms.

Getting Involved with Gamification

This is why we incorporate the mechanisms of gamification.

Negotiation training in the pharma industry

Thoughts on our negotiation workshop with the Danish Pharmaceutical Society.

Workz finalists for two Danish Design Awards

Two nominations as finalists for Danish Design Awards 2019 is in fact twice the thrill!

Symposium highlights: The Business Case for Diversity

Highlights from our February symposium on the business potential of diversity.

The do’s and don’ts of motivation

A quick look at motivation presented by our Senior Consultant, Rebecca Harvey.

Five challenges of virtual events

Five challenges you must overcome to successfully host a virtual summit or workshop.

Leadership between alignment and autonomy

Thoughts on leading organisational transformation while balancing alignment and autonomy.

Leadership competencies at play

Workz leadership simulations and the Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™ competency framework.

The Quest for Speed and Agility

Highlights from our October symposium on organisational speed and agility.

Three dimensions of a designed dialogue

Three questions you have to ask yourself when designing a dialogue.

Designing a world-class leadership academy

Insights from designing the “Leading the ISS Way” leadership programme.

Boosting cross-organisational cooperation

DTU Nanotech event with focus on collaboration.

Detective School

Training safety for thousands of employees all around the world on the same say.

Leadership on the Global Agenda for ISS

Making personal leadership a key strategic driver in one of the world’s biggest private companies.

Kick-off with a thousand young talents

Helping design the kick-off of this year's UNLEASH.

Designing Leadership

Using design to inspire the leadership thinking.

Communicating the future of Lundbeck

Lundbeck uses games to communicate new perspectives on the future.

We’ve won gold!

Bridgebuilders wins gold.

Multipurpose testing

How do you test effectively in a way that solves more than one problem?

Four levels of Goals and Objectives

Part one in a series of posts on our development proces

Bridgebuilders leaves the nest

Carewan becomes the first international partner to invest in Bridgebuilders™

Bridging the knowledge gap

How do you become a subject matter expert in just 5 steps?

Team Leadership in a Truly Global Organisation

Boosting collaboration and leadership in a global organisation

A history of change management

A tongue-in-cheek look at how change management has evolved

Beyond competition

On the role of competition in gamification

Business Risk tool

Promote a culture of active risk mitigation in big pharma

Welcome to DSB

Optimising customer experience for DSB.

Vice or Virtue in play?

On the historical roots of using games to teach virtues

SimCorp Plays Wallbreakers

On how SimCorp used gamification to support critical change leadership skills.

#4 Games in strategy communication

Using games to communicate

Birth of serious games

On the ancient roots of meaningful games

Kotter’s XLR8 and Wallbreakers®

Summary of Kotter's XLR8 + notes to Wallbreakers facilitators

When game-based tools go wrong

Pitfalls of gamification

Council of International Schools

Transforming the Council of International Schools. ​​​​​

Gamification – the new buzzword

An introduction to gamification (In danish)

Games in organisational development

An introduction to learning games and simulations

Six tips for global leaders

Six basic points for global leadership.

First rebel

Who is your organisation’s first rebel?

#5 Games as training grounds for change

Become better change leaders

3# Games in strategy development

Using games to find your direction

#2 Games as tools for involvement

Overcoming change resistance with games

#1 Change more, faster

Accelerating pressure to change

Pitfalls of summit design

When event design fails

Designing effective summits

Principles of good event design

Our ISS strategy game won gold

Strategy game wins award

360º customer focus

An employee summit for 1200 people

Mass-scale Union Engagement

Strategy engagement for FOA

Games and neuroscience

Improving our game design

Global Lead Summit

Top 140 summit for Chr. Hansen A/S

Rapid change in KLM

Change Management Master Class

An Invisible Health Revolution?

A summit for partnership development

Serious Games at University Level

Using Playmakers to train leadership and innovation in complex systems.

ISS Strategy Game

Custom made business simulation.

Constructive Workplace Dialogue

Empowering political dialogue in LO

Mapping the Future at Stallergenes Greer

Games-based strategy development

Service Design and Banking

Compliance culture in Sydbank

Gamechangers Won Gold

Our leadership simulation Gamechangers wins gold at International Serious Play Awards.

Times of Change in Haldor Topsoe

Complete strategy roll-out programme

The Bear has Awoken!

A warroom on the Ukrainian crisis

Sustainability in Novozymes

Mapping the value chain

Teaching Road Safety to Kids

Digital learning materials

Leadership Development in IDA

Using Gamechangers to create an action and result-oriented culture.

Supporting safety culture in the energy sector

Using a dialogue tool to change culture

A Day of Strategy in Lån & Spar

Co-creation and best practice-sharing

Strategy in Play

Using market simulations in strategy roll-out

DTU Innovation forum

Supporting innovation at the Danish Technical University.

Innovation for Clinical Staff

Course day for Region Hovedstaden

Everybody’s Election

Helping immigrants to vote

Co-creation for a Good Cause

Helping COWI help the Red Cross

Boosting Matrix Competencies

Using Gamechangers to make the matrix work better.

Invest in a Sustainable Future

Interaction game for the Rebuild 21 summit

Motivation in elder care

A dialogue tool about professionalism

RSA Fit for Fight

Strategy summit for the ensurance company

Management engagement in the financial sector

Designing a top 550 summit for Danske Bank.

ISS Nordic Executive Conference

Conference and workshop design

Helping Doctors Become Better Managers

Management training in Region Midtjylland

Innovation Toolbox

Online solution for Copenhagen University

DSB Service 1-2-3

Training in new service concept

Engaging the next generation of sponsors

Developing new business model for Childfund Alliance

Debating EU

Solutions for a better Europe

Benspænd

Collaboration culture on construction sites

Sales Training in Novozymes

Game-based training session for summit

Successful Onboarding

Complete introductory programme for DSB

Safety Culture in Danish Railways

Safety campaign for railway company

Financial Focus

Training project managers in COWI

Digital transformation in Topdanmark

Using Wallbreakers too support digital transformation in Topdanmark.

Co-creating with 16,000 colleagues

Employee engagement in strategic innovation

Vision Movie for DSB

Using movies to communicate the strategy

Activist Camp 2010

1,250 FOA Representatives under one roof

Working with role models

Using role models to engage and motivate.

A better education

Co-creating a strategy for Copenhagen University

Values in Play

Employee workshop for Coop Nonfood

Engaging 5000 Union Representatives

Summit programme for LO

Better Project Management at ISS

Using game-based training to build critical project management capabilities in ISS.

People engagement at TRYG

On how Tryg uses movie-making in people engagement.

Game-based change leadership training

On Danfoss' use of Wallbreakers to boost critical change leadership skills.