GET TO NEXT|Sprints
The
Future
Of Work
Activate What Matters
The Future Of Work
Aligning Teams Around Action
It’s clear that the Future Of Work is a combination of workplace, talent, and technology. We measure our success by the quality of our contribution to the community and the extent to which our values resonate with the customers we serve.
Obstacles and Opportunities
The world of work has never changed more than in the past two years. Unless we go back to the drawing board, we’ll be left behind.
The goal is to “get to next” — leave behind legacy thinking, envision new possibilities, and co-create strategies to get there. Get-to-Next Workshops include:
- Envision. Tap into your initial hunches, see the future today, and see today in
- the future.
- Expand. Plant and test, and make it tangible, visible, practical, bigger
- Build. Big picture, scale, model, make, create, test.
- Engage. Catalyze, refine, get buy-in, build momentum, build bigger, build
- ecosystems & communities.
- Activate. Deploy, lead, adapt, respond.
Get To Next is the “future operating system” for leaders, technologists, and innovators in any industry. It is designed to effectively organize and drive forward the process of innovation at scale regardless of the complexity, environment, or network.
Who is this for?
Future Of Work Sprints are one- or two-day immersive, hands-on sessions for those who lead in organizations, agencies, and academic institutions. They are designed for leaders of teams working to rethink the best strategies for talent, skill-building, and workplace design.
Objectives And Outcomes
〉 Clarity about the new realities of work.
〉 A set of priorities about how to redesign your organization’s structures and practices.
〉 A roadmap for “perpetual refresh”.
Case Study
A global technology company needed to rethink its global approach to talent. The impact of remote work on their future competitive advantage made it difficult to place the right people in roles. The asynchronous, globally distributed workforce was adding layers of complexity and leading to retention challenges.
Working with current competitive data, new requirements, future trend insights, and the guide rails defined by the corporate strategy documents, the Get To Next team led an intense sprint focused on redesigning their company as a talent magnet.
The net result: leadership team alignment on a competitive talent map, a strategic North Star, and specific innovation initiatives to reposition the company as the employer of choice for top people.
Focus areas
How to redesign work to accommodate the new realities
- New thinking about talent, engagement + employee experience
- Technology-enabled solutions
- Building Buy-In within the organization
- Best practices: inside your industry + cross-industry
- Reimagining work “place”: physical, virtual, hybrid, radically different
- Competencies, skills, flexible definitions
- Upskilling, culture + recruiting
- Commitment narrative – custom blueprint for action
- Relevant data and research insights
Format
〉 In-Person – Virtual – Hybrid options.
〉 From 5 Senior leaders (intense coaching + alignment) to 100 participants in an expanded buy-in workshop.
〉 Sprints can also be conducted for individuals, teams, or cohorts in 6-12-week cohorts.
FaciliTator
Andrea Kates (of Suma Ventures)
Andrea Kates is a San Francisco Bay Area-based authority at moving innovation to revenue. She focuses on uncovering untapped opportunities and galvanizing strategic vision. For 20 years she’s led bold initiatives in virtually every sector and every geography that help companies figure out where to place their bets on emerging products, services and technologies and to scale dynamic business models. In essence: How do you disrupt before being disrupted, avoid the blind side and get ahead of the future? Leaders who work with Andrea develop a new mindset about future growth, informed by both data and new insights.
Andrea was CEO of the San Francisco SaaS software company that pioneered the application of Lean Startup with scaleup and large companies. In that capacity, she had visibility into more than 13,000 commercialization, technology, and innovation initiatives covering a broad spectrum of companies within the innovation ecosystem from government research labs to large companies (3M, Intel), and a wide range of startups.
She has “futureproofed” teams in virtually every sector including mobile (Ford US + China, GM, Audi), manufacturing/energy (ABB, Audi, GM, Shell-Asia Pacific + Europe), technology/mobile (Fujitsu, HP, Cisco); healthcare (Atrium Health, Mayo Clinic, Roche), B2C consumer goods/hospitality (United Airlines, Sodexo, ALFA-Middle East) and financial services (Allstate, AIG, Citi). Her original research in cross-industry growth was published in her book, Find Your Next.
Andrea has been the featured keynote speaker and global thought leader on the TED main stage, Aspen Ideas Festival, CXO Forum in Tokyo, Rueda de Innovación (Colombia), and in corporate settings (3M, Cisco, Phocuswright: The Future of Travel, OpenFinance Mexico: The Future of Finance, Dubai 2020). Her board affiliations include: Embrace Global, Copenhagen Fintech, OpenFinance Mexico, and Stanford University’s global institute on Responsible Digital Leadership.
Today, Andrea works with leaders to discover their best future with a tangible, practical set of steps called: GET TO NEXT.
What Clients HAVE TOLD US
Andrea is a compelling leader in today’s future of work. She brings a seasoned practitioner’s expertise and a novel set of tools for teams that need to attract talent, redesign work itself, and bring innovative approaches to make sure our organizations are prepared for the permanent shifts ahead
