Strategic sessions, workshops and business games

To assess employees’ creativity.

In the final presentation we put down the strengths of the team members as well as outline the opportunities for their further development.

• — Come up with ideas quickly
• — Negotiate
• — Set tasks
• — Generate unconventional ideas
• — Present their ideas

• 7 hours
• 15–60 people
• No training needed

Participants distribute roles: a director (a person who hires other employees), manager, strategist, copywriter, designer, producer, etc.

• 1. Participants form teams and receive resources from the moderator (starting assets, money).


• 2. Every 20 minutes teams get a new tender. Teams evaluate their resources and decide which projects to take up, and which ones to abandon. The teams have to decide whether to take up all tenders and wear themselves out or choose only the most interesting ones; whether they have what it takes to prepare a proposal on their own or whether they need to mobilise additional resources.


• 3. Team battle. Teams prepare creative concepts and present them. The jury selects the best team and «remunerates» them. Once the project is complete, the team takes on new tasks. Over the course of the game teams can work on up to 20 briefs.


• 4. The jury determines the winners.

To teach the participants to anticipate the needs of their target audience. to create a new way of company’s interaction with a client.

Action plan for introducing innovation in the company.

• — formulate hypotheses about the needs of the audience
• — generate original ideas
• — negotiate
• — evaluate ideas
• — build an innovation strategy
• — present the final result
• — turn ideas into business models

• 3 hours
• Up to 400 people
• No training needed

• 1. Participants are divided into teams and dive into the task.


• 2. Participants go through three stages: they plunge into different eras and come up with ideas that take into account the technological context of each time period.


• 3. Having developed a solution for one time frame, participants form new teams.


• 4. Teams present their ideas, the jury evaluates them.

To change key working mechanisms to increase efficiency.

Together with a facilitator, participants formulate and write down the concept of change and propose an innovation plan.

• — adapt ideas to real conditions
• — give feedback
• — evaluate ideas
• — generate unconventional ideas
• — formulate hypotheses
• — modify other people’s ideas

• 4 hours
• 15–60 people
• No training needed

1. Participants form teams and immerse themselves into the game.

2. Participants go through three stages:

— immersing themselves in different eras and coming up with ideas

— coming up with a big idea for a new type of work

— coming up with implementation mechanics

3. Having come up with ideas for one period, the participants form new teams.

4. Teams present their ideas to the curator and get feedback.

Learn to resolve conflicts arising in the course of a creative process.

A Map of problem areas and a collection of solutions for the creative process.

• — resolve conflicts
• — negotiate
• — set tasks
• — come up with ideas and work on them

• 4 hours
• From 20 people
• No training needed

Unexpected external conditions are constantly changing the course of the game.

1. First day.
All team members play the role of a manager who has to prepare a creative proposal by the end of the week. The manager has a clear plan, imaginary colleagues, and a tireless facilitator who throws more and more difficulties at them.

2. Houston, we have a problem!
The strategist fell ill, the copywriter broke the deadline, the date of presentation was postponed. Where does that leave us? The team comes together to decide how to deal with this situation with as few losses as possible, while getting ahead of its rivals.

The solution to each conflict follows three phases: event → decision → consequences.

3. Make it through the end of the week.
Teams tackle with all sorts of misfortunes, and at the end of the «week» the facilitator evaluates the effectiveness of their effort.

4. The winner is determined by a jury.

Come up with solutions to the work tasks of the HR department.

Bank of ideas for working with negative outcomes in HR. Participants can use their insights in the future.

• — deal with negative feedback from the customers
• — argue their ideas
• — give feedback
• — modify other people’s ideas
• — set tasks

• 4 hours
• 15–30 people
• Preparation: learning about
  problems that may arise

1. Immersion.
Participants receive «complaints» including descriptions of work conflicts, difficult situations, disputes, and analyze them.

2. The choice of tools.
The curator introduces the participants to lateral thinking: a methodology that allows solving problems in an unconventional way.

3. Search for solutions.
Participants come up with many solutions for the tasks at hand.

4. Presentation of ideas.
Participants learn to present solutions correctly, present them to other teams

5. Assessment simulator.
The customer accepts and evaluates the ideas of the team. Together with the facilitator, participants discuss how to give feedback in different situations.

6. Exhibition of solutions.
Participants post their solutions on the wall and vote for the best.

To get a set of collaboration scenarios to solve a big problem.

Teams get to understand how social structures are arranged (stores, banks, schools, dating services, etc.) as well as communication.

• — negotiate
• — prototype ideas
• — modify other people’s ideas
• — come up with ideas swiftly
• — filter ideas

• 3 hours
• 25–40 people
• No training needed

1. Creating characters.
Heroes go on a journey.

2. Creating space.
The team settles on the planet, devising rules of conduct in the new world.

3. Definition of roles.
The teams have to invent new forms of relationships: how do we go shopping here? How do we study? How do we go on dates?

4. Acquaintance with other worlds.
Teams form alliances, build exchanges, improve their world with the help of new resources from other planets.

5. Solving unexpected problems.

6. The final presentation of the representatives of each world.