Creating a dream workplace using an informal constellation

location_city Melbourne schedule Nov 11th 10:45 - 11:25 AM AEST place Packing Room people 24 Interested

Learn how to run a workshop to build a collective vision of a team's dream workplace and then reveal their current state and collective agency to create their dream. This workshop was designed to help teams in their early forming stages, but can be used at any time that they are missing the spark and energy to work better together. 

The workshop uses a tool from Organization Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC)  called Informal Constellation. This tool is one of my favorite tools that I often design into various coaching situations. ORSC works with teams as a whole and seeks to improve the intelligence of the collective or system by revealing what is not seen.

This workshop works well as a precursor to creating a social contract, team agreement, team charter, or designed team alliance DTA (an ORSC tool ).

You will learn how to run the workshop by doing it. This workshop is a cut down version of the actual workshop that I use with teams.

 
 

Outline/Structure of the Skills Workshop

Group activity, no chairs or tables, everyone will be moving, standing and talking at different times. No slides, Just a whiteboard for the debriefs. It's learning by doing.

3 mins – short icebreaker to increase energy and connection of the group

7 mins - dream workplace visualisation and group review

30 mins - informal constellation to reveal their current situation and willingness to create their future dream workplace. 

 

Learning Outcome

Learn how to facilitate a dream workplace workshop by participating in one.

 

Target Audience

Coaches, Scrum Masters, Leaders, Managers, anyone that works in a team

Prerequisites for Attendees

Ability or interest in facilitating team building workshops. An interest in helping their own or other teams create their dream workplace.

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