The Brief
Widely regarded as one of the UK’s most successful companies, GlaxoSmithKline are not shy of innovation. Having formed a new team that brought together various financial specialists with the express purpose of forecasting future trends, they needed to create their own style of project management. The complex nature of their task meant that the specialists needed to work simultaneously on numerous and different projects, yet maintain integrity with the overall purpose.

The Solution
Firstly, we bonded the whole team to a shared sense of direction, the ‘Big Picture’, that both motivated and guided them when working on their subjects. Secondly, we took them away and stimulated the team with a series of challenging and complex simulations of the tasks they faced at work.

One of these simulations was our imaginative challenge ‘Hollywood’, where the team pulled together to produce a ‘blockbuster’ movie of epic proportions! This powerful fusion of fun and learning enabled them to develop their own team practices that were both tight and loose at the same time.