STRATEGY AND CHANGE EVENTS
THE CHALLENGE…
Every time a new strategy or change initiative is presented, it initially triggers a wide range of reactions among employees. Often, it’s a whole spectrum of emotions, from enthusiasm, excitement, and curiosity to indifference, concerns, and fears. In short: mixed feelings.
The expectation of the leadership: an energetic starting signal. “Now we’re going full throttle! (And certainly not offering a forum for “yes, but” whining…) The resistance and blockages will come soon enough.”
That’s perfectly understandable. The crux of the matter is: if the energy contained in concerns and fears isn’t released, someone will always be holding things back.
THE GOAL
It would be an illusion to expect that all questions will be answered at a strategy or change event and that everything will be clear afterward. Such processes are fraught with many uncertainties and unpredictable factors. If these aspects are downplayed or not addressed at all, those affected will easily see through it. This makes the communication unbelievable and people will become disengaged.
The aim of such events should be to invite participants to address the questions that arise for them from the new strategy or the change. Avoiding these questions triggers resistance, while allowing them to be discussed unleashes positive forces. This works particularly well when a serious yet playful approach is established.
SOLUTION
Future Now’s Standup Consulting is the playful balancing act between strategy and concern, jubilation and lamentation, moving forward and clinging to the past. Standup Consulting is 100% tailor-made business cabaret that lovingly and provocatively explores your strategy and mercilessly addresses concerns and fears with humor. Because our experience shows: what you can laugh about together, you can also talk about.
And what people can talk about, they want to talk about. That’s why we integrate targeted, low-threshold interactions into our stand-up consulting. We bring participants into a creative exchange that builds trust and fosters new connections.
With Standup Consulting, we lay the foundation for success and speed of implementation at the strategy event.
FUTURE NOW CREATES MOMENTUM.
“With a perfect blend of humor and depth, we successfully and effectively communicated our key messages and cultural insights to our colleagues, generating motivation for the upcoming strategy development… We would gladly work with them again and highly recommend them.”
– Kaja Hollstein, Head of Operations Services, Swissgrid
“Die Future Now Consultants bieten Comedy mit Tiefgang. Ihre Pointen ermöglichen einen erheiternden Zugang zu betriebswirtschaftlichen Themen. Future Now meint es ernst – aber nicht todernst!”
_ Daniel von Arx, Leiter Kommunikation, Luzerner Kantonalbank
“Future Now made a special contribution to the success of the event. Through their creative, intelligent, and humorous contributions, they provided us with unique perspectives and showed us all new ways to think about and, above all, to put strategy development into practice.”
— Detlef Scheele, Chairman of the Executive Board, Federal Employment Agency