Creating cultures that encourage innovation.
Innovation, the implementation of creative ideas, is one of the most important factors of competitive advantage in the forth industrial revolution and future creative economy. Yet, leaders do not always encourage teams and employee behaviours that are critical for innovation.
The Wunder Gym is a place to stretch your thinking, experiment, mash-up ideas and challenge perceptions.
THE WUNDER GYM WORKS WITH LEADERS AND TEAMS TO
CREATE INNOVATIVE EMPLOYEES
Innovation is desireable, however creativity is often unfacilitated. LinkedIn cited ‘Creativity is the Most Important Skill in the World’. We do not need to teach creativity, but rather inspire its daily practice. By shifting emphasis from finding the right answer to creating cultures that encourage risk-taking and embrace ambiguity. Future economies have already highlighted the greater role of creativity. As stated in the Harvard Business Review, ‘Innovation is driven neither by processes nor systems; it’s generated by human talent. No matter what procedures you have in place, it’s only the creative confidence and drive of individuals — and the collective intelligence of teams — that takes companies to new frontiers, revealing a better world and boosting an organization’s bottom-line performance’.
SUPPORT RETENTION
Leadership and incentives often play a role in discussions regarding retention. But very few leaders treat creativity like a job expectation and incentivize it into their performance development system. The Wunder Gym helps coach the imagination, encouraging creativity to become a habit. We offer a solution through our program by creating time, permission and freedom to create. By encouraging a creative culture you can build agility and resilience, foster a positive workplace environment and increase retention.
ENCOURAGE ENGAGEMENT
About half of the workforce would not recommend their employer to their peers, says Deloitte. That means that a majority of people are just coming to work for a paycheck – clocking in and out, with no incremental effort, no new ideas, and no real desire to see the company succeed. The Wunder Gym works with leaders, teams and organisations to drive innovation, through nurturing creative play. Inspiring engagement by encouraging ordinary to become extraordinary. Fostering safe environments of idea generation and failure, without negative repercussions. As stated in the Harvard Business Review, ‘teams that are truly empowered to exercise their creativity are purposeful, engaged, and inspired to do great things, finding ways to make life better for customers’.
The Wunder Gym program is a safe place to creatively experiment, without judgement, where making mistakes contributes to the next iteration of possible.
CREATIVITY IS A SKILL, AND, LIKE ANY SKILL, EVERYONE CAN GET BETTER AT IT.
Creativity shouldn’t be confined to just the “creative types” in your organisation. As technologies and strategies change and customers’ demands evolve, companies increasingly expect everyone at every level to contribute ideas.
By bringing creativity and commerce together, the Wunder Gym delivers unique professional development programs. The programs are delivered one day a month for 3, 6 or 12 months duration. Teams are exposed to divergent thinking tasks, stretch projects and a library of curious experiments with guest established artists, creative leaders, philosophers, even scientists, to build creative confidence through creative exploration. The program is hands on and challenges perceptions of possible.
See your employees become innovators. See them engage in divergent thinking as they take new routes to solve complex problems. See them take creative risks and challenge the status quo. See them dream up new possibilities
The Wunder Gym program inspires curiosity and encourages you to look at life and work differently. We aim to inspire you to connect dots in different ways.
PROGRAM DELIVERY
6 MONTH PROGRAM
1 x Professional Development day program delivered per month, 6 month duration
10-16 Attendees per day
12 MONTH PROGRAM
1 x Professional Development day program delivered per month, 12 month duration
10-16 Attendees per day
UNIQUE PROGRAM FORMAT
The Wunder Gym program can be curated for your company, however it will always include: Divergent thinking tasks; ‘Stretch projects’; Work with guest Artists & Creative Leaders, Scientists & Philosophers; potential internal exhibiting outcomes (determined with client).
The Wunder Gym program includes stretch projects. We are hard wired to be curious and creative. We do not aim to teach creativity, but rather inspire its daily practice.
For pricing and questions, please get in touch to discuss further.