Your people. Equipped and in sync and for what’s next
Wavetable Labs are interactive, hands-on workshop sessions that amplify your team’s capabilities in communication, collaboration, and creativity.
And Wavetable's Learning Lab did just that! Interactive, informative and fun (yes, really) the workshop changed our team processes for the better.”
You’re seeking something…
Memorable
You want to offer something innovative, memorable, and dynamic without breaking the bank or burning resources.
Different
You know your team would benefit from something fresh, but what does that mean beyond yet another Zoom call or whiteboarding session?
Convenient
You want to offer your people an experience they’ll value, but you don’t have the bandwidth to create this by yourself (and why would you?)
Inspiring
You notice people seem to be struggling for inspiration and lack room to move, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what the issue is.
But there are still things on your mind…
- There's ineffective and confusing feedback within the team
- How can we become more creative and innovative as a remote/hybrid team?
- How do I keep hold of my best team members?
- How do we help our partners and clients tap into their zone of genius??
- Why do our client calls feel uninspiring and stale?
- What can we do to share our work in more compelling ways?
Valid questions? Absolutely.
Easy answers? Not really.
We believe that in today’s networked world, by far the greatest value comes from time spent in ‘third spaces’: places like workshops, conferences, off-sites, summits, and co-locations.
Whether people are coming together in-person or connecting digitally, they’re seeking something more purposeful and interesting than what’s come before. These third spaces are where the answers begin to emerge.
At the center of these spaces are intentional interactions - and thus creating the best possible environments for these to happen.
The best offer structure plus creativity; space for exploration, yet with a clear focus on what matters most. These environments are where truly magical things can happen.
But here’s the catch: creating them isn’t as simple as putting some snacks in a conference room, or adding an agenda to a Zoom meeting.
It takes something more.
Wavetable is here to help you enter this new realm of opportunity and possibility - and to do so in ways that are unique, aligned, and unforgettable.
...they're going to be companies that take the choice of having people have actually a much deeper level of human interaction much more frequently.”
You know your team would benefit from more opportunities to build new skills, connect more deeply, and have a sense of alignment and clarity.
And in a world where it’s good business to do more with less, you want a solution that delivers on both impact and cost.
Wavetable Labs are custom-built, modular learning experiences that plug directly into your team’s needs and workflow.
Our suite of five Labs focus on critical work skills - including communication, storytelling, collaboration, and productivity.
Labs are short form, interactive team sessions that are designed to meet you where you are: online, in-person or hybrid.
Each Lab is packed with tools, frameworks and methods that can be applied right away.
Labs are available as singular 3-hour or 1-day sessions, or deeper-dive Micro Programs - 1 week sprints complete with dedicated office hours and coaching from our team.
3 simple steps.
Choose, Plug, and Play.
Awareness + Collaboration
- You’re frustrated at inefficient ways of working
- Ideation feels stale
- Ineffective or confusing feedback within the team
- In this Lab, your team will discover new ways of building self (and team!) awareness by exploring best practices, tools, and frameworks to make any meeting more efficient and effective.
- Participants will try out different feedback methods by building their unique riff on Cards Against Humanity (awesome, right?) and prototyping new ways to take on their work based on a live brief.
After this Lab, your people will be able to:
1. Better understand their own needs and working styles, as well as those around them
2. Design and lead collaborative meetings that are productive, engaging and generative
3. Work together as an energized and inspired team
Atoms + Eights
- The vibe in the team can feel flat and 2-dimensional
- You’re looking for more dynamic and creative ideas for projects
- People aren’t bringing their unique magic into their work
- This Lab focuses on team connection, diversity & generating innovative ideas.
- We'll start exploring story crafting by atomizing mini stories about ourselves, ideating on top of them, and remixing these ideas into something fresher still.
- We’ll then apply these tools to a live brief - rapidly ideating & prototyping unexpected concepts
After this Lab, your people will be able to:
- Take inspiration from the edges of their business to make something new and surprising (new wine, old oak)
- Unlock new ideas, possibilities and paths forward
- Build deeper connection and understanding across the team
Design + Deliver (a Narrative)
- There’s a lack of presence or polish in presentations
- Meetings can feel stilted and inefficient
- Valuable work isn’t shown in its best light
- There’s a constraint on who’s able to step up for important pitch sessions
- In this highly interactive and hands-on Lab, we’ll elevate teams’ communication skills by helping them tell compelling stories that move the needle
- We'll explore the mechanics of how design and deliver top-notch presentations, and facilitate and lead an engaging experience for any audience - online or in-person.
- Whether participants are seasoned sellers or taking their first steps into storytelling, this Lab will give them the skills and confidence to go to the next level.
After this Lab, your people will be able to:
- Build stories and narratives using the art of storytelling, and understand how it can be used to communicate ideas, build relationships, and inspire action.
- Develop effective content and presentations that can be deployed online or in-person
- Communicate with confidence and assertiveness while embracing their unique quirks.
How we learn: Inside & Out
- Information exchange is inefficient
- Communications aren’t landing - inside and outside the team
- There’s a handbrake on team dynamics and agility
- In this Lab we’ll dive into the art and science of how we learn and synthesize information.
- You’ll discover how to become a life-long-learner, and stay organized, focused and effective.
- You’ll also learn how to inspire, teach and elevate yourself and your peers through active, experiential, game-based, and problem-based learning approaches.
After this Lab, your people will be able to:
- Feel set for success as life-long-learners ready to adapt, grow and solve complex challenges
- Create a personal knowledge set up that’s organized, focused, and effective
Tempo: Live Scoping
- You know you have projects that deserve to exist in the world, but you don’t have the bandwidth or headspace to get things moving.
- You’d benefit from a thought partner to give you clarity, structure and support - but where to turn for support and partnership that makes a real difference?!
- Our unique Live Scoping process is a blend of professional discovery, project exploration, and creative design sprint.
- In this guided experience you’ll work 1:1 with our team to visualize, structure and hone your next initiative.
- We’ll do it through deep-dive diagnostics, a live scoping workshop, and custom-created prototypes.
- And because this work is better together, you can bring two of your key team members to share in the opportunity to learn and co-create.
After this Lab, you’ll walk away with:
- A cohesive pool of ideas and opportunities
- Clarity on possibilities, priorities, and challenges
- Refined structure and architecture
- Recommendations and action plan of next steps to take
In Action:
WeTransfer
WePresent - WeTransfer's digital arts and editorial platform - invited us to help their team operate at their best, design more collaborative online experiences, and approach their work in new ways.
Breaking it all down
We believe in the power of bringing the inside out.
This is how we do it:
Wavetable Experiences are designed and crafted by hand, built by our dedicated Learning Experience creators (a.k.a. LX creators – which also happens to be a new and valuable job category!).
Each experience utilizes our proprietary LX methodology, and synthesizes our team’s deep and broad expertise across live entertainment, higher education, product development, corporate training, executive coaching, film production, and storytelling.
The result?
An eclectic blend of colorful content, stories, case studies, tools, resources, games, and activities. Always active, always on, and always ready to create meaningful moments for companies like yours.
Eclectic &
Electric vibes
Real-world applicable
As part of wider initiatives around change, innovation, and growth, attendees will work on real-world live projects.
A big part of our Labs is empowering attendees to ladder the session’s work into their day-to-day so that they can apply their learnings straight away.
Built for today, and tomorrow
To paraphrase Doc Brown from Back to the Future: You want roads? Where we’re going, there are no roads.
It’s critical we build on what’s been learned in the past years of pandemic, and what’s happening right now.
One thing we’re sure about is that we’re not going back to the nostalgic halcyon days of yore. You can still listen to that 90s playlist, though (we do, too).
Holistic, Configurable
We go all in for the holistic approach by offering mixed modes and vibes, including co-creation, active learning, gamified experiences and solo reflection.
All our Labs are configured to your needs and goals, and we’ll weave in your unique brand identity and story, too.
FAQs
Most of the questions we get asked frequently we’ve already weaved through these pages, so there shouldn’t be a strong need for FAQs.
However, we believe some questions are frequently unasked:
Labs are available in two formats:
1) Singles: either as a full day Lab, or a 2-3 hour Express session
2) Micro Programs: 1 week sprint-style, these are designed to fit around the team's day-to-day. Micro Programs typically include two live workshops plus additional coaching and office hours sessions with our team.
We find Labs tend to be particularly effective for teams of 8-20 people. However, we've run very successful sessions for in excess of 300 participants. Scaling up and down is part of our process.
We'll provide everything the team need for an engaging and connected learning experience: content, activities, facilitation, vibes, follow up resources, and more. You just provide the people and the place (online or in-person).
We can indeed. Our Labs (and our Bespoke Experiences) can be delivered online, in-person or as blended experiences. Just let us know what suits you best.
Yes! We can help you end-to-end with live experiences: from strategy and curation through to experience design, talent programming, production, and hosting. Get in touch to tell us about your project.
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