The Unconventional Convention, Early September 2023, Coventry
Harnessing creative technology to navigate risk and innovation in the workplace
Do the responses of colleagues to crisis seem illogical?
Perhaps colleagues take too long to make decisions?
Or do they leap in before considering the consequences?
And how can that all be connected with the home of the Metaverse, the Delia Derbyshire building?
The aim of this event is to answer all those questions and give you an insight into how those different ways of working could be beneficial to how your teams work together. It will explore the use of immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence and how they can be harnessed by businesses to benefit people, planet and profit.
Participants will get to experience and observe critical virtual scenarios created by Coventry University Faculty of Arts & Humanities students.
This will help with:
- Understanding why people with different approaches take the course of action that they choose.
- Identifying the elements of their thinking and actions which are beneficial to others.
- Considering how different approaches could culminate to find the best outcome or solution to a problem or scenario
- This learning can be applied to different scenarios in the workplace to help employees understand their own and others’ responses to critical situations. It can be the starting point to developing new problem-solving approaches that encourage better collaboration and communication within teams.
Agenda
09:30 – 10:00: Arrival, refreshments and mingling.
10:00 – 10:30: Welcome and introduction
Bianca Wright, Rob Harrison
10:30 – 11:45 Interactive workshops
Bianca Wright
University Masters and Second Year Students and Staff
11:45 – 12:15 Discussion
Bianca Wright
Rob Harrison
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch and networking
Finish
Location:
Delia Derbyshire Building, Coventry University Cox Street Coventry CV1 5PH
Who should attend?
This event is for leaders of business with more than 50 employees, ideally operating in the business-to-business arena. The event has been devised to work best for two styles of leader. One being those that assess situations and make decisions quickly. The other for those that take a more consider approach, gather the facts and evidence, before assessing and making a decision in consultation.
What will you get out of the event?
Our aim is to give you insights into ways of working that do not make sense to you but may still bring with them benefits. This, so you can apply the understanding to the way your teams work amongst themselves and also how you engage with people who work in a different way. The benefits being not just better outcomes but better and more fulfilling ways of working.
What’s going to happen?
Participants will work in small groups to experience simulated virtual scenarios with options for how they respond to high pressure situations. Others in the group will be able to observe and watch back their activity to consider and analyse what they do. Following the sharing of observations, understanding and realisations the tables will be turned, and the observing group will be acting in a scenario and the actors in the prior scenario will be the observers. Then reflections shared again.
There will be a brief contextual presentation about how these kind of technologies can support businesses, a concluding panel for feedback and discussion from participants, the opportunity to view the University facilities and of course ample and sustaining refreshments and networking.
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