Foster Engagement so that participants make the connection between their own attitudes and the outcomes of the organization. Bring people into the process by exciting them and helping them dissolve barriers. Energy release is a key. Being able to sense that energy and bring participants to their feet when the group feels ecstatic with the transformation or paradigm shift is a core movement skill. Cultivate Ownership so that engagement grows.
Ownership is created only through genuine participation in decision-making.
The skill is practiced by designing the intervention to reflect, and by constantly accentuating, the ownership imperative. Build Trust and Encourage Risk Taking to remove barriers and release the 'answers that are in the room'. Build Camaraderie within the leadership team, the design team, and through to the small groups in the large event. Group catharsis can move them through gloom and doom, negative issues, and on to re-mapping a new beginning. It is our bias to use traditional team-building methods to get the top team in alignment before initiating the large group event.