Context

There are some topics that can be hard to be practiced in a one day class setting. For example Organizational transformation. To keep a practical approach a nice alternative is to do a tour of the HQ of a large organization.

In such a tour people who are in the thick of it share their practice. In an HQ you get to see people from many different fields just by moving floors: HR, legal, IT, etc.

The schedule: 30 minute interviews

In such a day we had a very simple format: 20-30 minutes interviews with people from the organization. With breaks and time to move from one floor to the other. To spice things up I also scheduled two guests via video calls that are consultants who have a big expertise on the topic of the day with practice in many different organizations.

The questions

To make it simple we told in advance the questions to each professional and kept them the same for all:

• who are you and what do you do here?
• how do you practice [the topic of the day]
• What's a tip, a principle, a tool that you use for [the topic of the day] again and again?

Organization intro

One thing I would do better next time is to start the day with a general presentation of the organization. This could also be done with some reading and videos at home and then have the intro as a Q&A about the organization.