FORGE
A workshop to set a course, lead and inspire
Whether you’re tacking a current business challenge or embarking on a large scale transformation, understanding where you’re headed and why, who your wide group of stakeholders are, and what’s needed to achieve your desired goals, are all fundamental to success.
FORGE is a structured workshop that helps you define an inspiring vision and explore and identify the human-centred factors that can make the difference.
It combines vision setting, trust building, alignment with stakeholder mapping and a commitment to action, all in one efficient, collaborative and engaging session.
1. Vision setting
Teams collaborate to visualise their ideal future state two years from now, setting a course with an inspiring ‘vision statement’.
Approx: 60 mins
How - 4 steps in 4 hours
2. Building trust
‘Hopes and Fears’ is an essential exercise we use to enhance psychological safety, encourage candour and build trust. Optimism about our challenge is the goal.
Approx: 30 mins
3. Stakeholder mapping
Gain a deeper understanding of the people and teams in your organisation & how they work together.
Teams create a shared visual map of the challenges, gaps, needs, flow of information and more.
Approx: 45 - 60 mins
4. Pathway to success
Identify key objectives and milestones objectives.
Commit to action - assign tasks, roles and responsibilities.
Approx: 60 mins
FORGE ahead…
Projects and change initiatives often fail, or at best mediocrity is accepted.
But it’s rarely because of a technical choice, or a system or process. It often happens because people didn't align around a shared objective, they didn’t communicate effectively with all stakeholders or even they didn’t fully understand the objective from the outset.
FORGE helps your teams to…
Unite around a shared vision
Refocus goals and energise the team
Build trust and align stakeholders
Commit to action
“So useful, I just wished we’d done this earlier”
Head of Engineering at a multinational insurance company