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Hi team 😃 I wanted to say a quick hello! I'm really enjoying being part of this awesome likeminded group - so great to see loads of questions being asked that i've also wondered about! I also wanted to share a challenge i'm currently experiencing to see if it's something you talented people could share any experience on! So, hello! I'm Louis - i'm a London based Innovation Lead in the charity sector - i'm also a freelance innovation consultant and facilitator which i'm going full time with from May...which i'm very excited about! I am currently doing the Design Sprint and Facilitation Fundamentals course which i'm loving... Turning into something of an AJ & Smart super fan! 😁 Anyway, my interesting challenge..... I'm talking to a charity at the moment who want to run three workshops with businesses and government bodies on one big challenge which they've narrowed down to three separate territories/areas. The overall challenge is around getting businesses upskilling low paid low skill workers. One of the challenges sitting under this is how do we ensure businesses have the data they need to convince them upskilling their low paid, low skill staff is worth their time and investment. They have done a lot of research and insight work on this upfront to show why this is an important challenge to focus on. The approach they want to take is: - Run 3 separate 'co-creation' workshops on 3 separate (but linked) challenges to generate solutions. They want these to be c3 hours long with 25 people. This is with businesses and government bodies. - As they work in the policy world which are very accustomed to 'roundtables' - as far as I can tell this entails lots of chat, not much action and plenty of unstructured conversations.. 😑 - In my view as they are very complex challenges it would be more beneficial to engage a smaller amount of people for a longer amount of time and am thinking best approach would be more like a Day One of the Design Sprint with Expert interviews, Lightning Demos and Concept Sketching and if time permits prototyping and testing.

Hey Facilitators, I would like to hear your opinion. 3hrs online workshop 200+ attendees (corpo client) with a "basic level of knowledge" Goal: - To Embrace DT as a problem-solving tool that attendees can apply - To experience DT through exercises in a limited amount of time.  (To show ---------- To explain and put theoretical knowledge about DT is clear. Question: What do you think is the best exercise to experience DT (90min max)? - I was thinking about the Stanford model to work in pairs in breakout rooms. - I was also thinking to go with LDJ - but it's risky (need to "onboard" multiple facilitators inside groups) What exercise would you choose?

Hi there !! ✌️ Have you ever worked on the implementation of a real "innovation culture" in an organization? There are elements that seem to me to be essential for this to be possible, such as - communicating clearly about the process - encouraging experimentation - allowing failure - setting up pilot projects that will serve as examples - having the support of the management Do you see any other components that are essential to the successful deployment of a culture of innovation ? I would love to hear from you. 😊

Hello Facilitators👋 I'm really curious about where everyone is from. I'd love to make this a mega post where we can see how diverse the Facilitator Club community is. Who knows, you might find a lot more people in your area than you thought! Once I have lots of answers on this post, I want to make a nice graph!