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At the heart of game-changing conversations, there’s thinking about the exchange process of a collective strong time. That’s what DDS is all about, designing game-changing exchanges during a seminar.
The team seminar is an unavoidable ritual in organizations: 10, 30, 100, even 1,000 people get together for one or two days, sometimes more, to get together and work together.
These moments have greatly evolved, and new forms of working together have emerged, around innovative collective intelligence processes. Making a seminar a real success has become a demanding exercise: How can you really involve participants? Why and what should they be involved in? How to explore complex subjects in depth? What will anchor the work carried out and ensure its continuity and development afterwards?
In our complex world, for a subject to move forward, for a project to work, for an organization to take its transformation in hand, it’s no longer enough to make a good diagnosis, build a response with intelligence and mastery, and define the alignment needed to launch the movement. It’s no longer enough just to be consistent. To come up with new ideas, to move forward and crack a subject, to meet a need or solve a problem, to really move forward on a project, we need to elaborate, question, rub shoulders, build, develop together, with our stakeholders, with our ecosystem, in cohesion… A valuable collective time is the one that will enable a response that is both coherent and cohesive.
Our practice has grown out of our experience of supporting teams for over ten years, with hundreds of custom-designed and led seminars of all sizes.
We draw on the fundamentals of Collective Intelligence, which we review on a regular basis, and on a body of theory and practice we’ve developed that aims to create challenging and audacious collective times to bring teams together around their challenges.
Our approach is deliberately creative and open: it allows us to envisage each seminar as a unique and singular moment, serving a specific context and collective dynamic. It’s at once exciting, exhilarating, and demanding.
