lifting the team

Work for a team of leaders in a marketing department aiming the increase a self critical responsibility and facilitate cooperation.

To enable acting on a broader perspective on the future of the business.

Stordes developed a set of interventions to help the team enrich their palet of acting, individual and collectively.

the colouring the portraits

The meaning of acting in the colouring of the photo portrait of yourself, with new material to work with.

Being immersed in something totally different, confrontationally, having to overcome reluctance and experiencing new abilities.

And seeing, recognising, evaluating the results and its meaning.

You have created a new colourful image of yourself, by applying colour in very delicate or with more broad movements.

Adding to this is the common result as a team, the shared experience and the total collection of the coloured portraits of the team.

A stimulance to feel the ‘unseen possibilities’ of materialisations of your acting as a manager.

In close cooperations with the French artist Émile Kirsch (Brut Collectif).

Among the interventions were:

actual acting positioned

The managers were asked to write down their job in 15 verbs and than define the 5 of which others team members would say that those verbs would best characterise him or her.

Then they plotted their acting in a matrix of scope and time. This made them aware of the importance of both the reality of now and the impact they could have on the future.

paradoxes of makebility

The team explored what happens in a city in terms of what can be managed and organised and what happens as a results of the free will based actions of its inhabitants. They performed a dérive in two teams starting from two opposite ends in the city meeting in the middle near the corporate head office.

Based upon these experiences the team developed two opposite scenario’s for organising and leadership based on two radically different philosophies:

maximise the own responsibility for the team members and extreme coherence

They stretched their thinking beyond their own experience and imagined new possibilities and defined them in concrete concepts and acting of leadership.