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As PEP Africa embarked on a new strategy in 2023, their inspiring CEO, Bouwer Strydom, recognised the need for a fresh approach. He reached out to CreateConsulting to design and facilitate a dynamic large-group process that would involve the input of every Dynamo (employees).
The result? AfriCafé - a collaborative large group World Café.
Read MoreViren Naidu, Chief Information Officer at Hollard Insure, sought our facilitation expertise for a Manco Team Workshop. This session was designed to strengthen the new IT Manco team, elevating their performance to new levels.
Read MoreCreateConsulting and Altron recently partnered on an extensive leadership development journey, aimed at strengthening the skills and mindsets required for positive, long-term organisational change.
This collaboration featured two programmes: the Create Leaders Academy for 21 managers, and an eight-month journey for 14 senior leaders.
Read MoreMeaningful conversations are powerful tools for initiating change and enhancing our wellbeing and happiness. Much more than exchanges of words, they have the power to enhance connections and understanding, resolve conflicts, celebrate special moments and shape our perspectives and emotions.
Effective teams thrive on open dialogue and aren’t afraid to tackle the hard topics. Just as a team must face challenges for optimal performance, individuals too can benefit from confronting personal hurdles. Yet, mastering tough conversations is an art.
Read MoreThe importance of diversity in innovation is widely acknowledged. Yet, many teams struggle to leverage it to achieve wellbeing, happiness and performance.
The Thinking Environment®, pioneered by Nancy Kline, is a framework and philosophy that not only values diversity - or difference as they prefer to term it - but actively nurtures an environment where it can flourish.
Read MoreIn a world that often seems chaotic and challenging, the pursuit of happiness becomes a universal quest. Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google X, shares his unique perspective on happiness in his insightful book, "Solve for Happy - Engineer your path to joy."
Gawdat is an engineer and his formulaic approach to happiness goes beyond traditional self-help approaches. It's grounded in logic and practicality, making it accessible to a broad audience.
Read MoreEager to unlock the potential of Whole Brain® Thinking, the McDonald’s senior leadership team for Global Supply Chain - Strategic Sourcing Food, collaborated with CreateConsulting to host a strategic workshop in Chicago. The goal? To leverage cognitive diversity as a strategic advantage.
Read MoreAre you interested in unlocking the power of thinking agility in your organisation?
One facet of diversity that is less discussed is cognitive diversity. Each of us thinks differently, but nature and nurture create biases for a preferred style of thinking.
Acknowledging these differences and focusing on a non-judgmental appreciation of them, plays an important role in the establishment of psychological safety and trust.
Read more about our Stretching Thinking Partnership Programme and the impact it has had in organisations such as Hollard Insure and GWK.
Read MoreWe are proud to have collaborated with the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), in partnership with Civil Society, at their recent 30x30 implementation workshop to explore opportunities for area expansion and develop action plans for a sustainable future.
Read MoreWe are celebrating women’s month and have some beautiful gifts for you. If you are looking for some inspired thinking on loving yourself, facing your fears, finding your passion and being truly open to feedback - this bumper edition is for you.
Read MoreReuniting for the first time since the pandemic, @Standard Bank's Group IT Service Management Community of Practice recently held an impactful 5-day conference. 138 delegates from 17 African countries were invited to participate and collaborate in:
Cultivating an aligned community
Enabling consistency through shared standards, and
Fostering shared learning and feedback.
Our role was to design and facilitate a dynamic and engaging large group process, that would leave a lasting impression on communication, collaboration and teamwork.
How are you feeling today?
We are hearing a common sentiment from the leaders we engage with in organisations large and small, local and global - "It's tough out here"
This edition of CreateSpace focusses on:
The Art of Possibility
Tips on how to be a great thinking partner
Implementing a Stretch Thinking Partnership Programme in your organisation
The Core Theory of Success
Enhancing our wellbeing by shifting our focus to others
MAXimising McDonald’s MEA Footprint
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. The Alliance forms part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
This Science Week aimed to capture the ambition of the Alliance to be constantly growing and exploring innovative new pockets of science with the potential to make a difference. The focus was on science at the edge and how to push boundaries at the science-development interface.
CreateConsulting were invited in the capacity of Mural experts, to develop a digital collaboration space. - an asynchronous mirror of the Science Week - in advance of the meeting, to enable non-participants to provide inputs to the in-person discussions.
Read MoreIn this month of love - what are you choosing to focus on?
There is a LOT going on in our country at the moment and this level of disruption can seriously challenge our vision of the future. We cannot ignore the daily realities and their impact but we can choose what we focus on.
This Valentine’s edition of CreateSpace focusses on:
Leadership is a love story
An outstanding liberating structure, Regnosis and it’s value in vision and strategy co-creation
Shining a light on a great Vision
Strategic planning: Leveraging the best thinking of your team and
The impact of our journey with the GWK Professional Services team.
