John Loos

In 1-2 hours, your team gains fast tactics for deep collaboration in the face of change.  Fast-paced, interactive exercises allow participants to laugh, discover and gain self-awareness in a moderated workshop format designed to target your most pressing collaboration challenges.

• Building on ideas
• Creating an inclusive culture
• Better Listening
• Being an empathetic and adaptive communicator
• Moving beyond silos

Incorporate the skills and philosophies of improvisation to prepare yourself for the moments where it’s impossible to be prepared. Navigate change, bring the power of ‘yes and’ and discover how to lead collaboration in moments of disruptive change.

• Mastering others-focused communication to create ‘win-win’ collaboration

• Creating a culture of listening, inclusion and acknowledgment

• Using a ‘yes, and’ framework to make communication positive, generative and others-focused

• Maintaining empathy and vulnerability in the face of the unknown

• Generating ideas quickly to speed up innovation

• Recognizing patterns and behaviors that block progress

• Moving beyond silos to connected networks

Most organizations operate with conditional empathy, turning it on and off depending on the situation. Unfortunately, the moments of least empathy tend to define us to colleagues and customers alike. Stop treating Empathy like the nice jacket you wear when the boss is in town. Dive into the moment-by-moment behaviors that create a more empathetic environment, even in the face of tough decisions and moments of crisis.

A master-class in how to keep your audience’s gnat-like attention using the same techniques as the best storytellers and comedians. From selling yourself to selling a strategic vision, this interactive session will help your team to look at familiar messaging in fresh ways.

• Making data meaningful
• Using visual storytelling
• Reframing information to engage an audience
• Reading the room and connecting

Everybody hears that storytelling is important, but most people don’t see how storytelling fits into a presentation or a sales call. This presentation makes the connection between storytelling skills and all the messages that make up our day – e-mails, conversations, presentations and negotiations. 

A powerful ideation session designed to stretch your brains and unleash your creative superhero using a gauntlet of highly varied, collaborative ideation exercises. Each session flow is customized to your creative challenge, your group and your objectives.

• Making data meaningful
• Using visual storytelling
• Reframing information to engage an audience
• Reading the room and connecting

Already have a strategy session planned? Need a better way to endcap a full-day retreat? A fast PinqTank Plugin plugs into your program to goose ideas in a condensed format to make sure you’ve truly mined all the gold,

• Get everybody warmed up for the deep thought work ahead
• Set norms for collaborating around ideas or solutions
• Include a fast idea sprint to build upon engagement surveys, customer data, etc