PASSIONATE ENGAGEMENT

CMC has extensive experience of the bespoke design and facilitation of interactive events to engage the passion and energy of your people. We can help you tackle the difficult things that matter to you; in-company, on or off-site, any location, any duration and at any scale

Workshops, conferences and other interactive processes can provide solutions to issues in creative problem solving, innovation, business planning, ethics, sustainability, culture change, public consultation and so on. Our unique combination of design, facilitation, LVT, experiential learning and Real-Time Knowledge Capture will help you develop the attitudes to successfully tackle unknown challenges.

Design will evolve in consultation to ensure the process meets the need. CMC can look after the whole process from inception through final design, facilitation and realisation in practice.

Workshops

For groups from 3 to 30 people, processes can be customised to address specific issues. Usually a variety of techniques will be employed to break established patterns of assumptions and belief, freeing people's mindset so they can bring their creativity to bear. Those who own a problem are usually the best people to resolve it. Because a rich variety of perspectives and talents contributes to the purposeful nature of the interaction, we often recommend involvement of all stakeholders.

“First class experience - Clearly gives the opportunity to think outside the box. I had a conference pending at the time and it enabled me to get my team fired up, engaged and energised.”

Example; One-day interactive workshop

A government department wanted to stimulate creativity. CMC ran a series of workshops at sites across southern England, culminating in a one-day workshop for eighty top managers in a London venue. A high energy event involved people in using multiple creative media and discovering how the experience of breaking established patterns could impact on the way they organised their work.

Interactive Conferences

CMC will work with you to co-design conferences that promote interaction - people listening to and learning from one another. Conventional conferences often take the form of a series of presentations in which prominent individuals tell and everyone else is consigned to listen. It is frighteningly like school - the good stuff happens in the breaks. In contrast, a CMC conference is dynamic, creative and empowering. As the participants work together they create new knowledge that will be captured before it is lost, produced as hard and digital copy and made available at the close.

“First class. Thanks for a new and refreshing approach to learning together. I could not think of a way it could have been improved.”

Example; Two-day conference for partner organisations

A public service organisation requested CMC's help in mounting an event to engage its partners in considering how they needed to work together to improve service levels. Over two days, a complex series of interactions engaged diverse sub-groups in developing ideas, co-designing processes and agreeing next steps. New ground was broken and new solutions emerged.

Tackling 'Wicked' problems

If you have problems that cannot even be defined, let alone matched to known solutions, progress depends upon special processes and open-ended enquiry. Time, place and circumstances must be managed to take you from within the problem to a position where the totality can be perceived. Processes are required that detach you from fixed positions and guide you into dialogue that furthers exploration. Through iteration both problem and solution can be revealed.

“Excellent approach and facilitation in a difficult area. Enabled our imaginative juices to flow with a great blend of reality.”

Example; Three-day international residential interaction

An international infrastructure corporation wanted to improve innovation in its country operations around the world. A unique interaction was designed by CMC to bring together engineers from many countries in dynamic and intensive exploration of the issues and opportunities. The potential gains were obvious - avoidance of duplication of effort, adoption of best-in-class solutions, sharing best practice etc. As a result new protocols were adopted, new virtual teams formed and new working methods initiated.

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