Absolutely lived this podcast and it is true, if you decide you need a solution now it can be there in an hour or at least a plan for it.

@Jonathan Courtney I will, I have just the right project for that test 😃

@Temi K yeah my suggestion would be to just start with the name change, so I thought to brainstorm about likes and dislikes of the current category name. Take the likes to the next brainstorm and see what happens next with creation of new ideas. Dot vote to make a choice of best three. But is the group of 15 people not too big for such a brainstorm? Should I split them in smaller groups? ☺️

Waw, this is exactly what I mean, what a wonderful community! Just love the way everybody is willing to help out and share their expertise. Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. This is very helpful. I need to help all of them engage and build on each others ideas. I believe it can be an advantage that the CEO is there, this means we can make decisions right away if needed. So I want him to feel valued in the group instead of intimidating (perhaps for some) 😅 I will update you guys here in a few weeks, will tell you how it went and what exercises were used.

@Bas van der Paardt duthchy power! 😎🙌

@Nesrin Gunes welcome! Great to know there are more people fron Dutchland 😃

Update: so our three days away in a cabin in the woods strategy session turned out to be an amazing success! I can’t believe that I lead our sales team in creating a solid sales strategy plan for the coming year. When we were driving there I was really nervous if i’d pull it off, in the end these were three amazing days where I could help turn something fuzzy into a clear plan with four subjects of focus. We started with an icebreaker where I asked everyone to write out some things they learnt from the first job and share the biggest lesson with everyone. That gave us an opportunity to get to know each other and practice a bit with the post-its. We went on with the sailboat exercise. After that I helped team to brainstorm on the ideas that would help us with our goal (revenue growth) in 2024. We dot-voted on the best 4 ideas and the following days we worked on those ideas. So now we are ready to deliver a report and a presentation next week with our plans. I learned a lot! 1: being strict and structured is the best thing you can do for your team - they loved the fact that they only needed to let their creativity flow. 2: distraction from work is killing creativity (we had to check in on our daily tasks inbetween) 3: my drawing skills were very much appreciated I did a little visual facilitation along the way, so we could remember important things in a fun way 4: Trust the process - I couldn’t believe that we’d end up with all these results on day one - but everything worked like magic! And all that just with the fundamentals course in my toolbox 🤩 5: Planning and sharing schedule for the dat is a very handy tool! Time Timer is a very helpful assitant! So that’s it! I did it! It was amazing and I don’t want to do anything else. Making people happy by leading them to tangible results is the best feeling in the world! Thank you guys so much for all the tips and tricks and thanks to @Rebecca Courtney and rest of the team for creating this lovely course. I am in love with workshop facilitation 🥰😎🙌

@Mimi Garcia thank you! I’ve made a skill map where teamies could sign up for certain serious and less serious tasks, like taking taking pictures during the day or light a fire in the house (it was really cold and no heating system) another one chose to make a presentation slides and we shared the subjects to work on on day three. So while everybody was busy writing their bit I had plenty of time to draw all the skills :) Which turned out like a lovely summary of all the talents 🤩

@Nathy Ravez Freelancing feels too risky at the moment to be honest. I think I meed more experience before starting looking for clients. Funfact though, a few days ago I mentioned to my manager that I might want to leave our company and look for a different career and today we had a call where he mentioned that he would want me to facilitate agile way of working with our teams! So I just might have to spend a few more months here and get my skills upped a bit. Also, this week I am away (remote cabin in the woods kind of setting) with my team this week and we just had few days with amazing creative sessions building on our strategy for the next year. So far the results are great. Funny how universe reacts to your intentions 😅

@Claus Höfele great insigth Claus. I think you are totally right. I feel that I need to gain more experience in facilitating workshops. Looks like I might be able to combine some things at my current company! 🤩