The Magic Hat

A communication and creativity project to promote accepting, valuing and passing on.
Involving 3 or more geographically and/or organisationally disparate groups.
Improving staff buy in, efficiency and satisfaction.

Outcomes:

Geographically and/or organisationally disparate groups share creativity with each other, forming links across departmental and social barriers. Greater communication and understanding between groups: After completing the project participants will be able to

• identify individuals in other departments/ offices
• accept and value others work for it's positive aspects
• see their own contribution in context with the larger work
• appreciate the development their work may go through when handed on to others
• communicate across departmental and geographical boundaries more efficiently and effectively
• use creative thinking to find resolutions
• empathise with colleagues in other areas
• avoid classic misunderstandings arising from 'them and us' mentalities having engaged in a more multi-team oriented activity
• call on their shared history with other groups

Participants will also develop improved presentation skills and confidence.

	Increased acceptance of others input	Leading to	improved buy in for projects and processes
	Increased readiness to exchange information		higher efficiency and error detection
	Increased willingness to report back		more useful feedback and greater satisfaction in completed tasks

Facilitation:

Each group will paricipate in workshops local to themselves to minimise disruption, room costs, transport etc. during which they create and pass on elementsof a story to the other groups.
All groups will have to come together for the final sharing and evaluation.

Why Magic Hat?

The Magic Hat is a device through which the concept of sharing (accepting, valuing, passing on) becomes intrinsic to the stories and the nature of the project.

Summary:

Each participant experiences:

• Creating
• Letting go of their creation
• Receiving others creation
• Valuing others creation
• Adding to others creation
• Sharing the results

Communication between geographically and/or organisationally disparate groups is improved increasing staff buy in, efficiency and satisfaction.

For more details left click and "save as" to download PDF