The needs for virtual organizing are increasing rapidly these days. Companies continue to go global. There is an unprecedented economic crisis so we do not travel anywhere for a meeting. People have an ever higher awareness of environmental impacts, so the ability to work in virtual teams is in high demand.
Things have certainly developed rapidly for Spoiled Milk and many situations are new. The challenge of building a strong team feeling when working from two different locations on a daily basis is really interesting (+ we also had Andreas sitting in Stockholm and participating in the workshop).
The idea for this virtual workshop with Spoiled Milk was to create the same experience of a team workshop, but without being in the same location. Simply to have a fun team experience while doing something valuable and relevant for the company. Those things can easily be combined.
The challenge I gave Spoiled Milk was to find the words that describes the core values of the company, seek objects which represented those words and ultimately create a short video of the results. The main part of the workshop, however, was the virtual interaction between CPH and ZRH office and to talk about the things you usually don’t have time for during busy working hours. Those meaningful conversations build relationships – regardless of the divide between physical and virtual settings.
Screens from the event
And how did it go? Of course we have saved some screens for our blog readers.
Initial briefing (as seen from Anders’ screen) with – from left – Stockholm, Zurich and Copenhagen.
Grand overview – Anders facilitating the virtual workshop.
Local creativity – each team moves into creative mode.
Presentation time – Copenhagen screening the visual output.
Evaluation - group discussion about how to improve the virtual settings in the future.
Goodbye – both offices rounding off.
A few more photos on the Spoiled Milk flickr account.
Creative output
Copenhagen’s video
Zurich’s video
(Anders Fredsø Olsen is temporarily working in Spoiled Milk as a strategic consultant mainly focused on writing a grand report about the “core of Spoiled Milk”. He will be finishing his studies at The Kaospilots in Århus in June)
