Challenge

GAMA Healthcare is one of the UK’s fastest-growing pharmaceutical companies. They had bought new people into the business in the United Kingdom, China and Australia, many of whom had never met in person. They asked us to run a workshop to help people get to know a little more about each other.

Solution

We decided that the only way to ensure everyone felt connected was to run a simultaneous workshop across the three countries. We arranged for Lego Explorer packs to be delivered to every one of the 225 employees. Using two facilitators, one moderating in English and the other in Mandarin, we ran a workshop with 60 breakout rooms. The workshop was designed around the Johari Window model.  It included exercises in which individuals built models of something that no one else knew about them, the most significant challenge they were facing at work and which of the company’s values most resonated with them.

The process was so engaging and the group discussion was so involved that we extended the workshop by almost an hour.