News from the human side of change
Talking culture with 999 colleagues
Workz helped TV 2 have an internal conversation about their organisational culture
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
We have extracted some key questions – plain and simple to benefit from askign yourself, teams, or colleagues.
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.