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Leadership, Talent & Learning

Leadership Development
Talent Management
Capability Building

Strategy & Culture Activation

Strategy Realisation
Culture Engagement
Values Activation

Team Development & Effectiveness

Purpose Clarification
Performance Boost
Collaborative Working

Case Studies

Rising Leaders

  • Yearlong development programme for global cohort of future leaders

Business Consultancy
  • Focussed discovery led to design of yearlong Rising Leaders programme for an experienced cohort that demanded robust and challenging development activities
  • Leveraging a range of learning tools, psychology-based profiling diagnostic and appropriate models with a few of our own thrown in
Applied Creativity
  • ‘Play, Pause & Rewind’ with bespoke Insights personas exercising in-the-moment behavioural change
  • Authentic Leadership ‘Hall of Fame’ provoked debate about true authenticity and ‘Agile Hopscotch’ took participants back to their childhood, as they defined the steps to true Agile Leadership
Seamless Execution
  • A combination of face-to-face bootcamps, virtual and hybrid peer development groups made for a unique, cost-effective learning experience
  • Utilising client’s offices ensured full participation of the Leadership Team and integrating client tools – 360 feedback, career conversations, coaching hub – to provide a ‘One Programme’ feel

Releasing People Potential – integrated delivery of an experiential learning programme

Dimensions of Innovation

  • An experiential innovation workshop, bringing intellectual rigour and inventive application exercises

Business Consultancy
  • Discovery pre-calls to focus design on business-critical issues
  • Sharing Innovation models: C2O2 Mindset, Dimensions of Innovation, 5i Innovation Approach, Leading Others
Applied Creativity
  • A giant floor-mat, a QR code treasure hunt, and a lesson from a freestyle rapper helped explore mindset and process
  • Later focus on workplace application and development of innovation proposals ready for Board approval
Seamless Execution
  • Co-design and development in synch with the client, who co-facilitated elements of workshop
  • Post-event comms enabled heightened impact of the experience on the business

Releasing People Potential – a just-right balance of theory and workplace application

SHAPE

  • 2-year development programme for global pool of High Potential talent

Business Consultancy
  • Focussed discovery, followed by innovative and rapid design of content
  • Range of learning tools; psychology-based profiling diagnostic and cutting-edge models plus old-school thinking
Applied Creativity
  • Inventive design to stimulate, challenge and engage
  • Thoughtful workshop flow, interspersing small group activities, external speakers, immersive sessions and reflection time
Seamless Execution
  • Global client-project team working virtually and side-by-side throughout
  • Just-in-time, as required, project team

Releasing People Potential – 2-year, strategic perspective to boost organisational leadership capacity

Inspire to Innovate

  • A global culture change immersing 11,000 R&D employees

Business Consultancy
  • An organisation-wide campaign to engage all of R&D in a range of activities and experiences to drive cultural change
  • Over 3,000 new ideas ‘planted’ on the ‘Ideas Pharm’ site, and 20+ fast-tracked to produce high impact, business-related changes
Applied Creativity
  • Inventive, grid-based workshop, looking at boosting innovation and overcoming hurdles
  • High-paced session, with 5-step process, to analyse problems from different perspectives
  • ‘Up close and personal’ with leadership team in informal conversations
Seamless Execution
  • An integrated programme approach comprising Identity, Leadership, Local Ownership and digital capture and collaboration
  • Team worked closely with central comms team for overall approach, as well as local teams to drive change

Releasing People Potential – driving culture change through an integrated programme

RETHINK Festival

  • A ground-breaking virtual event, with a digital infrastructure of festival stages, combining virtual and augmented reality

Business Consultancy
  • Creation of a ‘blow-their-socks-off’ all-virtual event, rather than an analogue event streamed on-line
  • An interactive crowdsourcing survey, to capture participants’ expectations and content requests
Applied Creativity
  • Real-time, full-body, teleportation of presenters and augmented reality graphics into a virtual environment
  • Digital Agora: a virtual marketplace of best practice sharing, shared from around the globe
Seamless Execution
  • 80+, multi-agency, team, working in synch from around the globe
  • Remote filming in 18 countries, all directed and edited from HQ

Releasing People Potential – a game-changing virtual event with all that Extended Reality has to offer

All Together Now

  • A two-day, dynamic, in-person experiential event to drive togetherness and cohesion

Business Consultancy
  • Novel interpersonal mechanisms to enable individuals and teams to network effectively after a lengthy period of remote working
  • Collectively defining the culture required to enable a positive and collaborative merger
Applied Creativity
  • ‘Box Clever’ was used to ‘unpack’ the strategy, engender discussion and collectively build a new future
  • Over coffee at the ‘Collaboration Café’, views were used to inform and align. ‘The Premiere’ encouraged teams to ‘play back’ the key messages to ensure familiarity and consistency
Seamless Execution
  • Designed and produced effectively with numerous other partner agencies
  • Facilitated by Fusion alongside Senior Leaders to ensure effectiveness and ownership

Releasing People Potential – experiential activities to drive a proactive culture to enable a successful JV

The P&L Stakes

  • A day at the races to drive profitability through sharing best practice and generating innovative ideas

Business Consultancy
  • A competitive, but collaborative, session to enable owners to increase the P&L of their stores – guided by past ‘winners’ in the Parade Ring
  • A working P&L held the key drivers to growth and enable participants to collectively share and test the impact of their ideas and then implement back in store
Applied Creativity
  • Purpose-designed table mat revealed a 5-fulong ‘race’ of challenging business hurdles that ensured owners were ‘in the saddle’ and committed to winning
  • A custom-built digital solution enabled owners to see their horse’s position on a giant screen as they saw the commercial impact of their actions on the P&L
Seamless Execution
  • Champion jockeys and trainers were briefed to coach the teams and ensure effectiveness of solutions
  • Owners took the ideas back to their stores to implement, this time seeing the impact of their actions on a real P&L

Releasing People Potential – owners were put in the ‘saddle’ to boost their P&L

Well Beings

  • A fun, interactive and practical framework for boosting individual and collective wellbeing

Business Consultancy
  • Teamliness and individual wellbeing has proved to be the greatest challenge presented by virtual working
  • Drawn from research published by the New Economics Foundation, the ‘Wellbeing Wheel’ addresses these issues
Applied Creativity
  • Individuals complete an easy-to-use, self-assessment and planning tool
  • Inventive team sessions bring to life the wheel and its application
Seamless Execution
  • Post-session activity is shared on a digital platform
  • Team members continue to share ideas and support each other

Releasing People Potential – boosting wellbeing and teamliness in a remote workforce

Unpacking the Strategy

  • A Leadership off-site with a difference, creating an empowered and motivated team

Business Consultancy
  • An event underpinned by the new strategy, and which would shape personal development plans.
  • A fresh structure and a new leader in situ was a key part of the design
Applied Creativity
  • A focussed workshop to explore and agree on strategic imperatives
  • Real-life mannequins brought to life leadership behaviours required to drive the business forward
Seamless Execution
  • An agreed set of outcomes, along with key messages and a ‘red thread’ were agreed upfront to ensure the client’s needs were met.
  • ‘Fast-tracked’ design using on-line collaboration tools

Releasing People Potential – session outcomes shape personal development plans

Nudge 21

  • A cultural change initiative, focusing on 21 days of experimentation and continuous learning – amassing accumulative cultural gains

Business Consultancy
  • Drawing on habit-forming research, a global campaign over a 21 day period was devised
  • Simple, personalised and small step actions to drive, embed and consolidate the culture change
Applied Creativity
  • Global roll-out: a unique approach based on nudge theory, involving all 18,000 colleagues
  • Digital and analogue deployment (office-dependant) urging each employee to focus on a small culture shift
Seamless Execution
  • Intimately working with client team to see activities were planned and stress-tested
  • Centrally planned, locally executed via regional networks

Releasing People Potential – a world’s first use of nudge techniques on a global scale

More Case Studies

Digital Dashboard

  • World class UI/UX redesign of Compliance portal to make room for meaningful work

5 e-Live

  • Interactive digital learning modules to stimulate thought and consolidate new behaviours

High 5

  • A world-wide values activation programme, engaging staff in 5 newly-launched values

(Y)our

  • National Conference to engage senior leaders in their new strategy and their role in delivering it

May The Fourth Be With You

  • A Leadership strategy off-site, encouraging empowerment and ownership, and agreement on a set of strategic imperatives

DAREFEST

  • An immersive, festival-style experience, bringing to life the client’s new innovation methodology

Wired to Win

  • A pan-European strategy activation programme designed to engage staff in new ways of working

i-Lead

  • Design and facilitation of an immersive experience for Senior leaders to understand, engage with and role model newly agreed corporate principles

Clients we have worked with

“We did it! It has been a great pleasure working with the Fusion team since Day 1. You bring a unique mix of creativity, professionalism, expertise and fun!”

Global Head of Talent, Global Financial Services Giant

“I was really pleased…the overall structure, the types and volume of activities and the approach to engage, yet stretch the group were all spot on. For me that was in part due to the way the programme was put together and also due to Fusion’s delivery that brought it to life.”

Head of Learning & Development EMEA, Major Pharma Company

“Once again, it’s a job well done!  I shared it with the Head of Department this morning and he loved it!  So, big thanks to you and the team for pulling all this together.”

Compliance Operations Lead, Global Pharma Company

“Thank you to the Fusion Team for the attention to detail, creative and technical genius and sheer hard work that you all put into making our Festival a success.”

Global Brand & Marketing Director, Professional Services Firm

“We covered so much ground with a wonderful diversity of interactive sessions, in a way I wouldn’t have thought possible! Well done to you and the team for pulling it all together so expertly.”

Marketing Lead, European Healthcare Company