An ABC of services we’ve designed to help companies change how others choose.
These offerings build on our expertise as communicators and cultural specialists. We apply our expertise in theatre, performance and the allied visual arts to design experiences of immediate, practical value to participants.
Brand new: Services for defining and launching a new brand for a new or existing product set, business unit or venture. More>
Catalytic objects: A communications production strategy that conceives, designs and delivers objects (physical and digital) that catalyse conversations and/or influence people’s perceptions or beliefs.
Distill and crystallise: The antidote to fill-in-the-blank marketing collateral, this consultancy process uncovers or constructs the key metaphor underpinning a product, service, or USP as the basis for a communications campaign.
Endorse: A story-finding process geared to capture success stories in an authentic and engaging way, for sharing across media.
Gauge to engage: A method that unites practical investigation of the mindsets shaping group behaviour and the criteria for successful materials designed to influence that group.
Ice breakers: A range of interventions addressing organisational breakdown and the “organisational silence” that both causes and results from it.
Imbibe: A guided process providing cultural immersion for leaders in a tribe within your organisation or marketplace in order to build understanding, fuel empathy and find a common ground for cross-tribal interaction and collaboration.
Me and my shadow: Here, we join you for crucial meetings to provide observations and critical feedback on “the other”. Dimensions include an assessment of the quality of your interactions with them and practical strategies to apply moving forward.
Movies: Interviews, animations, long, short, for expos and conferences, for smartphones and iPads, we make them — from concept and story-finding through to finished product in all formats as required. There are lots of agencies making movies. The movies we make people actually watch from start to finish. More>
Organisational x-ray: A validated form of culture mapping applying Hofstede’s model (the gold standard in culture in business) to characterise the culture(s) of your business unit(s). Suited for samples of 30+.
“Ouch”: An on-your-feet audit process that uses interviews and role plays to uncover and address pain points in internal processes.
Paralysis catalysis: When you don’t know to do next, this conversational process is designed to help leaders and leadership teams determine ‘where to from here’.
Pipeline, not pipe dreams: Innovation planning and mentoring. More>
Pleasure and pain: Using tested, in-depth interview and story-finding techniques to help your teams get to know key clients or allies, spot opportunities and diagnose faultlines in their own terms (not yours). More>
Sense-Making: Using sophisticated software called the Sense-Maker™ Suite to rapidly analyse stories collected from 1000′s of people in order to patterns in actual thoughts and beliefs.
Story-finding: As a key stage in comms planning, we conduct 1:1 and group interviews to uncover the things your organisation knows that the world needs to hear. It’s a process all PR companies promise, but not all can deliver.
Thinking differently: A group process delivered in workshops that introduce and stimulate new cognitive and imaginative responses to triggers and situations so individuals and teams can harness to improve analysis, decision-making and idea generation.
Transmedia toolkits: Something all networked businesses need, Throughline toolkits deliver portable stories you can configure to reach different audiences segmented by geography, sector or discipline.
War room: A bespoke installation on your premises mapping insights captured in a bid situation or during a cultural due diligence. This gives you an immediately accessible, compelling visual and verbal window on the world you’re seeking to influence. More>