The Circle Project’s Work Better Design Studio opens creative and safe spaces for entrepreneurs and leaders to explore the art and craft of business change. Our powerful retreats, workshops, and coaching processes invite innovative and transformational learning experiences.
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“Something magical happens when The Circle Project is working with people. The experience was energizing.”
Tim Lewis | Sr. Training & Development Specialist | REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.)
It is a common misperception and it trips up business every time: investing in the idea that a new skill set will help your company innovate, create, collaborate or generate an inclusive, dynamic work culture. It won’t. Skill sets are great when you’re training people how to use a new computer system; not so much when what’s required is a different kind of thinking. To do the real work of diversity, collaboration, innovation, culture change, and leadership, you have to reach beneath the level of visible behavior to the underlying “structures of the land;” you have to reach the level of mindsets.
We prefer long-term relationships rather than one-day “fixes” with our clients. We design according to our clients needs. Contact us for more information.
Here’s how a few organizations have used our work:
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- The state of Nebraska asked us to work with their education support units to create cultures of creativity and innovation in their schools.
- REI, Equity Residential, and The National Parks Conservation Association invited us to stir the thinking of their diversity councils, to challenge their assumptions and stimulate their ideas for implementing their diversity initiatives.
- The City of Austin invited us to bring together warring factions to find common ground in a conversation about their urban forest.
- The U.S. Postal Service asked us to work with one of their regional teams to help navigate some difficulties in how they were working together.
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- The Boeing Company asked us to work with their managers and engineers to explore new ideas of working with global diversity
- The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching invited us to open teachers to new ideas for learning and renew their commitment to teaching.
Exploring the Art & Craft of Better Business
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Our best thinking as it looks on a page or in a podcast. Some of the books, podcasts, and videos are bite-size, some are a full meal. All will support your organization’s intention to Work Better.
Online community, podcasts, and classes
We stir your thinking and stoke the creative fires, and open your eyes to new possibilities through Work Better podcasts and online courses. Engage with the material in your own time and in your own way with the added benefit of an online community.
Coaching
We believe you are the expert of your growth and transformation. And, sometimes, you need an outside eye to help you see the mountain of opportunity on which you are standing. We offer individual and group coaching to support you in realizing your greatest potential.
Keynote Speeches
We’ve spoken to groups that range in size from 10 to 10,000 people. Our story-based insights are not only poignant and powerful but come with lots of laughter thrown in. We’ll help you gain a fresh perspective on Leadership, Innovation, Creating Cultures of Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion, Teamwork and Collaboration.
Workshops
No one needs to tell you that the only constant in business is fast-paced-change and yet we find most business cultures “stepping into the future with their eyes in the rearview mirror.” In The Work Better Design Studio we’ll help you create new cultures of Leadership, Innovation, Inclusion and Collaboration that help you easily navigate the complexity of doing business in a shape-shifting world. [Learn More]
These offers are available as 1, 2, or 3 day workshops, depending on the level of engagement, investment, and impact you’d like to achieve. They are also available in retreat form, designed especially for your organization, and as interactive keynotes for organizational gatherings.
Contact us if you are ready to Work Better.
Partial recent client list
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REI
The Boeing Company
Equity Residential
U.S. Postal Service
City of Austin, Texas
National Parks Conservation Association
North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Drake University
Educational Service Unit 9, State of Nebraska
Center for Excellence in Intercultural Education, Norquest College
Pension Board For the United Church Of Christ (PBUCC)
