At a time when Zoom meetings and MS Team chat sessions can sometimes feel exhausting or overwhelming, take stock exchange were an online breath of fresh air. Their engaging approach to helping develop a shared sense of team and collective purpose builds on the work they’ve previously done face to face at a local community level. It turns out it is also a natural fit for post-COVID online teams looking to reflect and re-energise.
Matt Leach, CEO, Local Trust
OUR TEAM
Olly and Nick have over 20 years collective experience in developing and facilitating workshops within community and organisational settings. They’ve worked with participant groups and colleague teams at Vodafone, The National Theatre, The Soho Theatre, Jersey Museum, Nuneaton Museum and Local Trust. Their workshops are structured, empathetic and flexible, encouraging people to talk, listen and be present with their own thoughts, as well as the group’s collective reflections.
Aside from their work facilitating and delivering workshops, Olly works as a coach, holding an Institute of Learning and Management Level 7 qualification, and Nick has also taken on organisational and consultancy roles at institutions to help develop their outreach programmes such as the Battersea Arts Centre, Manchester Jewish Museum and the Royal Court Theatre. Anna is an experienced producer, project and production manager, with experience in theatre, community development and events.
WHAT WE DO
Our work uses storytelling and conversation to bring communities together and build connection, empathy and empowerment. At a time when we’re working more disparately than ever before, and the simple human contact and everyday interactions we used to take for granted are at a premium, enabling your colleagues and work community as a whole to feel valued, listened to and inspired is more important than ever.
If your workplace is looking to find a way to enable colleagues to reconnect, to reignite a shared sense of common purpose, to understand one another better, to create a clear vision for the future, or to simply have an enjoyable and meaningful experience, we can help. We will work closely with you and your team to establish what you’re trying to achieve, your time frame, and your budget to develop a bespoke plan.
Case Study: invigorating local trust
In the summer of 2020, the ‘new normal’ of a world beset by COVID 19 was well and truly entrenched. For many people, this meant having spent months stuck at home, furloughed, or working from a laptop.
This was the case for the employees of Local Trust, the organisation that administers the amazing Big Local programme. CEO Matt Leach asked us to design a programme that would ‘excite, enthuse and push the creativity’ of a workforce that had spent plenty of time together on Zoom meetings, but no time in the same physical space, and had struggled to find strategies to reignite their spark and passion. He wanted people to come away feeling ‘happy, more connected and more engaged’, so we designed a set of workshops that focused on stimulating the creativity that existed within the Local Trust team, enabling them to reconnect with each other, and regenerate the vigour that meant they’d joined the team in the first place.
“In a time when everyone is being pummelled with many extra curricular activities to bring teams together, this stands out as the best.”
“The set up is super clear, super slick and super interesting. I always knew what I was meant to be doing or thinking about. The sessions go quickly, but you don't feel rushed - just really enjoyable and I looked forward to them in my work week.”
“The questions were challenging - but in a really good way! It's made me think more positively about my work and place in the world!”
Participants, Local Trust
WORK WITH US
If you’d like us to bring our transformative team-building and visioning service to your organisation, please get in touch by emailing hello@takestockexchange.co.uk or through our contact page.