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Congratulations to Little Caesars Pizza on a very successful 2024 Global Business Rally in Las Vegas! Shout to my fellow facilitators at BOxD | Better Organizations by Design for guiding 1000+ high performing managers and owners through a series of “serious play” activities - reinforcing strategic priorities and core values while having some serious fun. Key Takeaways: 1. The importance of building together. Whether it's cardboard bridges, Jenga towers, strategy or culture, co-creating is a powerful way to bring down silos, span differences and catalyze new connections. 2. Latent creativity, energy and insights are unleashed when your people are given time, space and agency. 3. The quality of what happens front of stage (guest experience, employee engagement) is a reflection of what happens behind the stage (teaming, adaptability, innovation). Shout outs to … Nenuca Syquia Celeste Costa Ken Bland Tekla H. Abby Coppock Megan Hundley Sabeena Ghazi M.S, LPCC Melanie C. Jones MSOD, PCC(she, her) Emily Virgil Martin Jessen Seema Gururaj Tim Shea Jenine Smith Jenkins, ACC

Been looking at a lot of strategy docs and tools as of late. Most if not all seem look like a bunch of tactics pieced together or a fill the blank MBA exercise (i.e., not very creative, differentiated or abductive). Wondering what other people are seeing❓

A sincere thank you to Florent Guillet-Caillot, Emily Hilts, Meghan Lovett, Alex Lader, PMP and the The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Global Supply Chain Reverse Mentors for making our co-creation session (across 13 timezones!) a big success. Together, we unpacked the topic of: Workplace Engagement from the perspective of Millennials - all while learning how to practice human centered design. My key takeaway: 🔍 Clarity 👂 Dialog 🗣 Candor ❤️ Purpose ☑ Ownership are universal needs but may show up in different ways. As Gen-X'er, I might have been willing to just get it done with our without. But in today's VUCA world, these are now essential to success and not an option. #empathy #agency #cocreation #creativity #businessdesign #experimentation #curiousity #humility #empowerment Mary Lacasse Kerry N. Coke

I was talking with Sean M. Hayes, PsyD about human-centered organizational design. This led me to ask how he gets to work on big, gnarly organizational behavior change initiatives. ❓ Was it the certification? The schooling? Serendipity? ❗ His answer was simple: "You do the grunt work first." As much as we'd like to transform the business, innovate moonshots and get a "seat at the table" on day 1, it rarely works that way. 💡 Business ultimately happens at the speed of trust. This often why innovation labs rarely amount to much. They focus on the glamorous / vanity projects and skip the less desirable ones. Without demonstrating a willingness to do the gritty work and show clear value, its hard for stakeholders to make the leap. So what to do? ✨ As I tell my students: "Be relentlessly helpful, then be necessary." ✨ As Bryan Yates tells me: "Be curious then be in service." How do you get a "seat at the table"?