What worked in the past is no longer enough to guarantee success.
Guide staff to seek new opportunities and people managers to lead amid change and uncertainty.
our workshops
Your organization is unique. This is why we tailor each session to meet the needs and goals of the audience.
Our most popular workshop themes include:
Communicating Failures: How is failure defined and discussed in your team?
Risk: What is your team's risk tolerance? How does risk influence their collaboration?
Setting Kill Criteria: When is it advantageous to stop and reset? Why?
Perfectionism: How do you define success or decide when something is “good enough”?
Balancing New and Established Approaches: When do you repeat proven strategies, and when do you try something new?
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our participants
All-staff
3 to 4 hours of interactive content delivered in-person
Fail forward uses the Failure Toy® to teach what Powerpoint presentations can’t: risk taking, adaptability and consciously navigating missteps.
In-person workshops are played with tables of toys where teams play and debrief key takeaways around their work, role, and team dynamics.
pre-workshop consultation
In a pre-workshop consultation, we collaborate with you to identify your specific goals and tailor your session accordingly.
During your workshop
Through multiple rounds of collaborative gameplay - each paired with an expertly facilitated discussion - participants identify the conditions that allow their team to more effectively prepare for, address, and benefit from trying things that many not work as planned.
after your workshop
Your workshop concludes with personalized take-aways regarding how to incorporate productive conversations about failure into your daily work and learning.
managers and leaders
1 to 2 hour of interactive content delivered in-person or virtually
Equip your people managers to lead ambitious, high performing teams. No role playing or trust falls. Just the core principles and skills leaders need to guide their teams to take risks and navigate uncertainty.
pre-workshop consultation
In a pre-workshop consultation, we collaborate with you to identify your specific goals and tailor your session accordingly.
During your workshop
Through activities that spark peer learning and individual reflection each manager arrives at specific actions they will take and by when.
after your workshop
Personalized 1-on-1 check-in calls provide accountability and additional support for each participant to follow through on their commitments for their teams.
testimonials
After the Fail Forward workshop things changed. There was a big failure that week and when it came up the discussion focused on what was learned instead of gripes and complaints.
— Coonoor Behal
Deloitte GovLab
Thanks to Fail Forward, learning from failures is now part of our competency framework and more importantly, our HR director publicly shared a failure on our internal blog… We’ve made progress, at least it is no longer taboo to talk about failures, which in itself is a huge achievement.
— Roxanna Samii
UN International Fund for Agricultural Development