The Unconventional Convention - Part II

Do you ever feel puzzled by how your people during a crisis? Why do some people hesitate while others act impulsively? How could these diverse approaches actually strengthen your team?

The aim of this event is to answer all those questions and give you an insight into how those different ways of working could be beneficial to how your teams work together.

From a virtual reality 'escape room' style challenge you will work with other participant to solve puzzles, answer questions and complete tasks to meet the challenge you have been set and earn the right to escape.

Participants will get to experience other worldly virtual scenarios created by the Coventry University College of Arts & Humanities students.

Your interactions and experiences will contribute to:

• Understanding why people with different approaches take the course of action that they choose.
• Identifying the elements of their thinking and actions which are beneficial to others.
• Considering how different behavioural approaches can be adopted to improve the outcome or solution to a problem or scenario.

This learning and experience can be be brought to life by application in your day-to-day work, helping us understand our own and others’ responses to challenging situations. It is the starting point to developing new problem-solving approaches that encourage better collaboration and communication.

At the end of the event you will be invited to share the insights you have observed and how you might apply them in your working life.

After the event we will conduct light-touch qualitative research with each participant to understand if they have had an opportunity to apply their insights and what the outcomes of that might have been.

What will you get out of the event?

Our aim is to give you insights into ways of working that may not make sense to you but still bring, with them, benefits. This, so you can apply the understanding to the way people work amongst themselves and also how you engage with people who work in a different way. The benefits being not just better outcomes but more effective and more fulfilling ways of working, and... innovation.

Who should attend?

This event is for business managers, leaders, owners and coaches, ideally operating in the business-to-business arena and environments which they feel could perform better. It has been devised to work with any behavioural style, whether you take the lead, share the lead, collaborate or lean into research and measurement to do so.

What’s going to happen?

Participants will work in small groups of mixed behavioural types. The groups will be briefed and facilitated in the work they are to be set and the behavioiurs that are being tested. The activity being an escape from an other worldly virtual reality scenario in which there are puzzles, questions and tasks to complete to enable escape. Others in the group will have defined roles and other resources to help address those puzzles, questions and tasks.

On completion participants will be invited to share their insights on behavioural flexibity and challenged to trial those insights in their workplace.

Within four weeks of the event each participant will be approached for some light-touch qualitative research to discover if trials of those insights had been possible and what the outcomes were from that.

Agenda

Arrival 10.30am – 11.00am

Arrival, refreshments and mingling

11.00am – 11.20am Welcome and Introduction

Bianca Wright and Rob Harrison

11.20am – 12.20pm Interactive workshop, VR and teamwork competition

College of the Arts & Humanities Students, Coventry University

12.20pm – 12.50pm Feedback and reflection

Bianca Wright and Rob Harrison

12.50pm – 1.30pm Lunch and networking

Finish

Host or Publisher Glued