WPS Workshops

Leadership teams face unprecedented change: emerging technologies, evolving customer needs, new workflows, the drive towards sustainability. These pressures compel them to rethink how to create and capture value.

But navigating these changes is hard. It demands that teams collaborate intensely to figure out what really matters, explore fresh perspectives, and align on bold steps.

Our immersive workshops and visual tools guide your teams to tame their challenges, achieve real clarity, and align on their strategy and vision. We’ve worked with hundreds of organizations to create massive impact, from boosting customer satisfaction to creating new workflows to establishing a clear vision that everyone is aligned on.

Learn more with our downloadable guide to great workshop, and how WPS can help you clarify and reach your goals.

WPS Workshop Topics

  • Imagine and design what’s you are going to face in the future. Explore new markets, product plans, emerging technologies, partnerships, or research initiatives.

    • The future of manufacturing

    • The evolution of construction

    • What your industry will look like in five years and how you will thrive.

  • Drill down into difficult issues that are rife with seemingly intractable trade-offs. Work through complexity to unearth clear options.

    • Short-term vs long-term

    • Products vs Services vs Solutions

    • A viable ESG path

  • Steer an organization forward towards a new direction by implementing a holistic change framework.

    • Renewed product strategy

    • Focus on customer experience

    • Delivering higher level value

WPS workshops are immersive, intense, and fun. They stretch teams to work to the top of their intelligence and integrity. Visual, collaborative methods and tools help generate energy, excitement, buy-in and alignment.

The WPS process provides a rare chance to see problems holistically from several points of view, to surface the real issues, and to work through dilemmas. Teams, working together in clear processes, produce genius work.

We focus on the hard stuff. The complex, fast moving, technologically driven challenges that require smart, principled diverse teams to do their best work.

Visual Collaboration

WPS’s visual collaboration techniques help teams untangle a wide range of issues: Envision a brighter future. Untangle a thorny dilemma. Move an organization forward on a new path.

While most consultancies gather information through a slow, linear, and expensive process of disconnected interviews, then deliver thick reports and dense presentations, we bring together fully prepared, diverse teams to dynamically work the issues.

This approach generates energy, excitement, buy-in, and alignment, Teams that think together in well-designed physical and psychological spaces produce genius outcomes.

WPS Workshop Phases

Build Shared Understanding

Teams collaborate better in a clear and rigorous information environment that can display critical aspects of their challenges and opportunities. We help design and build environments where organizations can visualize what’s important to success: From technology trends to competitive landscapes, customer buying patterns to internal dynamics, these vistas build a shared understanding of what’s really happening.

Engage People to Do Their Best

Visual environments provide a framework for teams to do their best deep work together. We organize team thinking around the concept of ‘Plays,’ time-bound units of work. Each play consists of a key focusing question, a visual workspace, and tasks to work through the challenge creatively, concisely, and analytically. By thoughtfully selecting critical questions — issues that are relevant to the business — teams become deeply engaged and involved in finding winning solutions.

Align on Bold Steps

When people build solutions together, they become deeply committed to realizing the way forward. The output of workshops are clear solutions, well-formed decisions, succinct plans, and action items that the full team owns. The result: clarity, engagement, and alignment.