Latest Unthinking - November

Welcome to the Latest Unthinking newsletter, November edition!🤘🏼

494 words. 3 parts. 2,5 mins of your time.🚀

1. Tell me something new!

2. Dirt track mindset

3. Highlights

Chat GPTs quick summary of today’s newsletter:

“Starbucks franchise forgets crucial step in Halloween preparation. VanMoof showcases some dirt track thinking with how they save thousands of $ weekly, Unthink wins another award, and Gallagher gets their first taste of Unthink.”

Enjoy!

Tell me something new

Okay, disclaimer, this is not new. This is a reminder.

But a very important reminder.

You need to have cups before you have Halloween balloons.

We’re talking about Starbucks coffee. ☕

A franchise recently had a beautifully decorated store, with cobwebs, orange balloons, and plenty of promotion for their Halloween flavoured beverages. 🎃

There was one small issue: they had no coffee cups in stock. The decorations are all pointless if you cannot provide the market what they want. The market wants overpriced, blast roasted, high sugar caffeinated drinks on the go.

The franchise owners had gotten so focussed on ordering the Halloween decorations, they had neglected making sure they had enough coffee cups.

In the L&D world, there’s plenty of Halloween balloons.

Fancy presentations, state-of-the-art digital tools, workshops without engagement, complicated ROI strategy to name a few. These can be nice add-ons to the fundamentals.

A drumbeat engagement plan, intentionally designed experiences and relentless focus on the outcome of the programme are the building blocks that allow the extras to flourish.

→ In your world, take a moment to review what the coffee cups and Halloween balloons are?

The coffee cups are where the majority of your time and energy should be spent.

Do not forget the basics.

Dirt track mindset

Bike company VanMoof was losing thousands every week due to damages caused by careless couriers. So, they changed their packaging to something that would be handled with more care.

Result = 80% drop in damage costs 🤯

Highlights

⚡ Our carpenter came back, our trophy cabinet has expanded… Unthink was recently awarded ‘𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑’. 🏆

⚡ We kicked off Ampl!fy, a leadership experience for 25 fantastic female leaders within Gallagher. Watch the video here!

⚡ We finished another our October cross-org Women’s Leadership Experience (WLX). Our next one kicks off in Spring 2024, know anyone who would like to join? Hit reply. How the group described it 👇

⚡ Over 1,000 folk tuned in to an episode of ‘Leaders in Conversation’ that we organise for DB Schenker. Nick Holmes from Avalere Health spoke about: 🫴Belonging, 🪜Career Advancement, 💬Communicating Vision and ⚖Wellbeing.

🔄 ICYMI - Our last four Unthinking Thursdays:

💡 Pay Equality, lessons from Animal Farm  

💡 Why you should unthink ‘being a sponge’

💡 Emotion is the driver of action

💡 How having family experience brain surgery has improved our learning experiences.

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Next up, December’s Christmas edition! 🎅🎁

Team Unthink 🫶