Decision Sprints
Facilitated workshops designed to assist with decision making and problem solving.
We all know the importance of collaboration, yet achieving it
successfully can be challenging.
At times, group dynamics and office politics can pose obstacles, and the various, diverse voices
and opinions can make finding a solution or arriving at a decision seem impossible.
That’s when a Decision Sprint can help.
A Decision Sprint is particularly useful when:
- You’re lacking a clear process
- You want to eliminate bias from the decision process
- You’re out of ideas and hitting a wall
- You want to break away from circular discussions and move towards action
- You want to ensure participation and contribution from everyone in your team
- You’re struggling to reach consensus and alignment
- You want to ensure buy-in and commitment from key stakeholders
Together, with each client, we design efficient, time-boxed
meetings and workshops. Using a range of decision tools
and ideation techniques, we engage teams in activities and
exercises which help to generate ideas and solutions.
Every decision sprint starts with a ‘How might we..?’
question. Some popular examples include:
- HMW: Increase our pipeline of innovators and entrepreneurs?
- HMW: Inspire more of our residents to pursue entrepreneurship?
- HMW: Collaborate with other departments to achieve targets?
- HMW: Learn from the experiences of the last academic year?
- HMW: Develop more Knowledge Transfer Partnerships next year?
- HMW: Inspire the leadership team to increase our annual budget?
Popular Decision Sprints
A Decision Sprint consists of a series of carefully selected workshops or smaller activities and exercises
and is a great way to problem-solve, innovate, learn, strengthen relationships and boost productivity.
2 Hours
workshop
Engagement Booster
This workshop combines several powerful exercises and techniques that help generate new ways to boost service and programme engagement. The outcome of this workshop is a clear, well-defined list of engagement boosting experiments with next steps, activities and actions.
3 Hours
workshop
Ecosystem Builder
Building a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem is a team sport. Using a suite of exercises, you will uncover gaps in your support provision, map your local innovation ecosystem and scope opportunities for collaboration and partnerships. This workshop is a great activity for stakeholder engagement.
1.5 Hours
leadership meeting
Strategy Review
This session provides an opportunity for you and your team to take a pause, review performance and fine-tune your approach where necessary. Together, you’ll generate ideas and solutions to issues identified and produce a list of actions that realign team efforts with your organisational strategy.
6 Hours
away day
Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward
A great way to break up the usual routine and get colleagues together in a fresh environment. Away days are ideal for team bonding, thinking outside the box, and tackling challenges with creativity. PRF is a great opportunity to problem-solve, innovate, build relationships and boost team productivity.
1 Hour
team meeting
Team Retrospective
While it might be tempting to wrap up and move on immediately after a large project or academic year. In doing so, you miss out on opportunities to turn past mistakes and achievements into learnings. A ‘Team Retrospective’ provides an opportunity for your team to reflect, evaluate and learn.
1 Hour
team meeting
Decision Point
Decision-making is a challenge for nearly every team. We help you make decisions fast and turn ideas into actionable tasks. Decision point consists of a series of exercises and is particularly useful when you’ve got some ideas, but you’re not quite sure how to prioritise or execute them.