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Workshops with the Failure Toy®

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 experimentation and failure.

Workshops with the Failure Toy bring your team together in a playful 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 the expectations of others.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for employees, managers, and leaders at every level. It’s ideal for teams that:

  • Are dealing with major changes
  • Rarely talk about failure
  • Blame others when things go wrong
  • Need guidance on how 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” culture and reconnect teams
  • How to speed up progress and innovation without fear of failure

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.

Long-lasting impact

Workshops with the Failure Toy are a small investment of your time with a long-lasting impact. Participants walk away with a chess masters’ perspective; each failure is a step towards mastering the game.

  • Team members learn to fail together and take accountability
  • Collaboration between teams increases
  • Innovation is actively encouraged
  • Lessons learned from the workshop today are applied to the challenges of tomorrow

Get your team started today

Learning isn’t just sitting and listening

Workshops with the Failure Toy bring disconnected teams together to learn by doing. Whether in-person, online or in a hybrid format, these workshops focus on an impactful, creative approach that brings people together to build their capabilities.

Experiential learning

Hands-on learning is the opportunity to engage. We use experiential methods that are highly impactful and memorable, so teams walk away with understanding and insights that last far beyond the workshop.

Try something new

We break the mold of traditional off-site team-building exercises. This workshop is unlike anything else – and that’s how it sparks innovation and creativity.

Play with key themes

Learning using toys is not just impactful – it’s enjoyable. It enables your team to address frictions in a playful setting, learning from setbacks and walking away with personalized insights.

Hear it from those who know

“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!”

Sherri Griffiths
Head of Ontario

Bank of Montreal

"The online Failure Toy workshop was such a fun and thought-provoking exercise. I'd love to bring it to more of our leadership teams! I really appreciated how Twenty One Toys tailored this session especially for our learning objectives and terminology. The result was a workshop that resonated extremely well with an audience of high-potential leaders. It elegantly touched on inclusion, goal setting, and team dynamics and it was very relevant to our current challenges as an organization."

Othar Hansson
Head of Core Leadership Development Program

Google

“At Dell, we used the Failure Toy as part of a large-scale design thinking initiative. […] 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."

Adrian Lonescu
Experience Design & Change Management Lead

Dell Technologies

Ready to spark innovation?

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