Author: naren@hybreed.co
What is a Masterclass?
A Masterclass is an immersive online experience, where participants learn from the industry’s best experts.
Avery Dennison: Background
A global company with locations in over 50 countries, Avery Dennison employs approximately 36,000 people worldwide. Avery Dennison is a materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials that enhance branded packaging, carry or display information that connects the physical and the digital and improve customers’ product performance. Avery Dennison leads in serving a vast array of industries worldwide, including home and personal care, apparel, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals, and automotive.
Objective
Innovation within a well-run organization has always been a sure pathway to business success. With the recent disruptions brought about by the pandemic, innovation becomes crucial to staying afloat in today’s highly competitive world.
A leader in material science, Avery Dennison thrives on a culture of innovation. The client requested a methodology that taps the imagination of employees and opens the organization to diverse possibilities by bringing in an expert’s perspective. A Masterclass seemed the perfect fit!
Audience
To adapt and overcome the challenges of change, a program that fosters innovation in a fast-paced environment was designed for the LGM (Labelling & Graphic Material) Team, APAC with 300 participants.
Challenge
Engaging an audience of 300 virtually – all at once was a challenge. Hence, we recommended bringing in 2 experts to cover various facets of innovation.
Execution
FocusU recommended
Greg Orme:
To speak on building a culture of Innovation
Greg is an award-winning author, CEO, entrepreneur, and organizational change veteran who helps leaders thrive in a world of accelerating disruption through creative thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Rajashree Rao:
To speak on driving Innovation for a sustainable world
Rajashree (Shree) is a globally acclaimed industry thought leader, visionary, advisor, principal consultant, and mentor in next-gen technologies – Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), among many others.
Greg’s session threw light on why some organizations are innovative and others aren’t. He spoke about innovation mindsets and innovation strategies the teams could implement through different tools.
Shree sprinkled a unique perspective on how organizations can innovate while keeping the world and sustainability in check. She suggested the best practices that the organization can adopt while advancing in technology, busted myths, and also shared case studies where some organizations have succeeded in innovating for a sustainable world.
The client’s initial interaction with both the Masterclass speakers instilled them with confidence in the success of this dual Masterclass program, even before it took place.
Impact:
The Masterclass session was a massive success! The participants were thrilled and inspired by the interactive sessions delivered by Greg Orme and Rajashree Rao. The session was deemed valuable and garnered the praise of all 300 participants.
Testimonial:
A heartwarming testimonial from Sachdev Singh, L&OD Manager, LGM, APAC says it all. “I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation for providing us with some of the best speakers we could have during the Innovation Master Class Series that took place last year.“
Greg Orme who spoke about building a culture of Innovation was absolutely amazing in his delivery. He made his presence felt brilliantly and we also had some of our leaders appreciating him sharing how Innovation will engage with tech disruption to grow value in a world of constant disruption, discover ‘great problems’ to accelerate innovation, and experiment to learn, innovate and grow. Rajashree Rao who spoke about Driving Innovation for a Sustainable World was equally amazing. Speaking about the types of Innovation and why reconstructing and restructuring the Innovation model helped a lot of us to understand its purpose of it. She was powerful, and vocal and shared some great case studies.
Overall, I would like to say thank you once again for all your assistance, and looking forward to many more collaborations.
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Program
Reed Manch Exhibitions | Leadership Development
Objective
To take the whole team through an immersive learning experience that would help all participants answer the question: “What is Everyday Leadership” and how does one exhibit it in their behaviors?
Solution
The workshop was carefully designed keeping the profile of all the participants in mind. We were clear that we did not want to introduce any esoteric Leadership model that participants wouldn’t relate to. Hence the whole intervention was designed around The Leadership Challenge construct.
Instead of introducing a new theory, we started by asking participants to list down their own “Best leadership experience ever” regardless of whether it was in their corporate work at office or anywhere else – at home, school, college or public life. From the stories that naturally emerged, we put brought to life the “Five behaviors of exemplary leaders.”
The workshop brought home the point for participants that – Leadership is for everyone. It is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. Leadership is actually a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others. It highlighted to everyone that they could make extraordinary things happen by liberating the leader within themselves.
Through an immersive workshop experience that involved a mixture of introspection, discussion, debate, sharing of experiences, stories from around the world and experiential activities, FocusU brought to life the paradigm of Leadership in a language so simple that it made a difference to all participants who embarked on this enthralling journey.
Impact
Here is what Anuj Mathur, the Managing Director of Reed Manch Exhibitions had to say about the whole intervention:
“The Leadership workshop helped all of us to take a step back and analyse ourselves on the kind of leadership traits we have and that we don’t have. How we could all become better leaders and help others grow along with us. It has been the most effective workshop for multiple levels in our organization. It helped our Leaders shine. It focused on how leaders can put their thoughts together in a more efficient manner, take ownership and be united with the team . The training has been extremely beneficial, our people are more oriented and have a clear vision on how to work with their teams seamlessly to deliver best results. We got coached on “One Team One Dream” vision which really helped the staff to be on the same page while performing tasks. The fun quotient mixed with the tasks made it an enjoyable and knowledgeable experience.”
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