BUILDING CONNECTION & COLLABORATION

A global professional services firm faced a challenge being felt by workforces across all industries. Over the past two years, the firm had hired approximately 30 new people to their 60-person communications team.

The majority of the team had never met each other and were struggling to build connections and a sense of collaboration. At the same time, the organization was facing a considerable amount of change. Legacy employees were resistant to changing old ways of doing things and new employees were frustrated by a lack of willingness to try new things and openness to creativity.

According to a pre-session poll, 30% of respondents said they were only “somewhat comfortable” sharing information and ideas across teams and only 50% reported that new ideas were “very well” received internally.

Peppercomm conducted a half-day interactive Stand Up & Lead workshop that leveraged the tenets of humor and applied improv to speed the path to trust, foster a sense of community and shift thinking from “yes, but” to “yes, and.” The hybrid session including both in-person and virtual teams in a combination of both stand-up and improv exercises that challenged traditional ways of thinking and illustrated the benefits of building on each other’s ideas and to develop breakthrough ideas and out-of-the-box thinking.