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Failure Toy® Workshops
Learn how a healthy relationship with failure is key to innovation.
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The Failure Toy® Workshop
Is it better to take the surefire path that leads to minor improvements or try riskier approaches that could lead to much bigger payoffs? If you are looking to innovate, you've got to be comfortable with failure.
The Failure Workshop brings your team together in a playful and safe environment to come face-to-face with failure. It’s a game of balance, experimentation, and a whole lot of laughter! In just under 2 hours, team members and leaders alike will discover how they react to risk, feedback, competition, and expectations.
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Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for employees, managers, and leaders at every level. It’s ideal for teams that:
• Have low employee engagement
• Rarely talk about failure
• Blame others when things go wrong
• Need encouragement to innovate
What will your team learn?
This workshop is a fun and engaging opportunity to learn valuable lessons, including:
• How to bring your team together, even if they’re working remotely or off-site
• How to align teams when your company is going through rapid change or growth
• How to overcome an “us vs them” vibe and reconnect teams
• How to speed up progress and innovation without fear of failure
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How it works
Before your workshop
Failure is as complex as the individuals who experience it. We book a 30 minute consultation to establish your key goals and themes for the session.
During your workshop
Your team will go through a series of games to explore the dynamics of failure. Facilitators will then lead a debrief centred around your specific goals and theme.
After your workshop
Your team will leave with fresh insights and specific ideas for building a healthier relationship with failure.
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Team Takeaways
Failure happens all the time. Your team needs to learn how to not only cope with failure, but come back stronger. Gaining insights on how to anticipate, navigate, and cope with failure will support your team in:
- Building their EQ muscle.
- Practicing how to give and receive feedback.
- Exploring how they approach risks & rewards.
- Understanding the role of failure in design & innovation.
- Defining what success means (goal setting).
Clients & Testimonials
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Sherri Griffiths
Head of Ontario
Bank of Montreal“The In Person Failure Toy workshop was a great experience for our teams. The hands on experience is an eye opener on how you feel about risk and failure and how this impacts ourselves and our teams. I would highly recommend this workshop!”
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Othar Hansson
Head of Core Leadership Development Program
Google“This was a highly interactive and fun exercise. It has direct applicability to our work lives where we need to understand and empathize with our peers in order to work together more effectively. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who is looking to build the strength of their team.”
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Adrian Ionescu
Experience Design and
Change Management Lead
Dell Technologies“At Dell, we used the Failure Toy as part of a large-scale design thinking initiative. The Failure Toy provided the high performing employees leading this initiative the opportunity to investigate their personal reactions to failure, and to see how these reactions directly influence behaviour. The Failure Toy workshop reminded us that building a culture that learns from failure starts by equipping individuals with the language, mindset and courage to talk about it.”
