Criticality, Creativity, Communication

In this dimly-lit future, many are thinking about where to save. Letting go of employees, trying to do more with less. Which is precisely the time to invest in the people that make it through the cut, making sure that they are the most creative and best communicators they can be. Zoom, webinars, and Slacks, and MS teams are OK for the rigid production process but can also suck the air out of the room.

Critical Business Salons (CBS) is a space to discover the fire in the belly and incorporate it into the elbows. We all have that fire; things that inspire us, background, values. When those are unsaid or inaccessible, they show up in non-useful ways: a conviction we can’t explain, professional resentment, unhealthy team dynamics. Owning a creative surplus integrates it into our work and improves our communication and creativity.

The format is a Trojan horse. In the same way that taking a walk is about exploring our thoughts, the questions we will explore are focal points to discover our perspectives – like the fruit bowl in an art session. Rather than going through a query to find solutions, we will go through the question to explore these contexts. People in the group (groups are small, ten people) will gravitate to–and incorporate–the context that lights them up. 

Through the tried and tested circle format, we will create a space for integration, an intersubjective opportunity, a place for employees to show up as something other than their job title so they could self-author what that job means for them.

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