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Getting remote editors making ideas together again
A half-day virtual workshop that got WePresent's remote editors making ideas together again.
The challenge
Remote and hybrid working is still a thing, and it’s still not easy for teams to navigate. There are plenty of unanswered questions:
- Why do fresh ideas sometimes seem slow to form?
- Which new tools can we use?
- And as creative humans, how do we stay creative and collaborative in a confusing online/hybrid/IRL/all-of-the-above/wtf world?
Yup, there’s tension. Even the most creative people wrestle with it.
WePresent, WeTransfer’s digital arts and editorial platform, invited us to its team day to help answer some of these questions. Safe to say, death by PowerPoint was not on the agenda.
What we ran
A half-day virtual workshop. We surfaced what gets the team working at its best, shared a few tips on designing online experiences, and added some essential Wavetable provocations.
Three Wavetable provocations
- Big wave surfingHow its techniques can help you spot issues in your team.
- R.E.M.’s mandolinWhy an unexpected instrument can bring freshness to your own work.
- UB40’s kids’ TV themeTheir little-known theme song for a 1980s children’s show. Do you know it?
The main event
The team was developing an exciting new project. But instead of working on the project itself, we asked them to design the best environment to plan and design it in.
Yup, a little meta: a workshop brief to design a workshop for the workshop brief. But this is valuable stuff. Put the time and energy into designing the space and choosing the right tools for the team, and the real work almost takes care of itself.
Sweet. And watch out for WePresent’s curator collaborations. We’re sworn to secrecy, but they’re very nice indeed.
What they said
“After almost two years of getting used to working remotely we needed some inspiration on how to think differently, motivate ourselves and approach challenges in new ways. And Wavetable's Learning Lab did just that! Interactive, informative and fun (yes, really) the workshop changed our team processes for the better.”
Holly Fraser, Editor in Chief, WePresent / WeTransfer
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