Our business workshops
Re-energise your business, product, team and marketing
Workshops are at the heart of Make Happy’s process. Using powerful and proven processes we collaborate and innovate with our clients to deliver exceptional results. We can help you build stronger teams, have effective meetings, develop new marketing and business strategies, identify business risks and maximise the innovation opportunities in your organisation.
- Each workshop is individually tailored to your business needs
- Workshops can last anywhere from three hours to five days
- Some of the business and professional challenges we can help you with are listed below
20 years of facilitation experience
With over 20 years’ international experience leading workshops for some of the biggest brands in the world, such as Chanel, McDonald’s and P&G, Jonathan heads our team of sector experts in the development and delivery of our business workshops.
Jonathan is a certified facilitator in Lego Serious Play, Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving, FourSight Thinking Profile and Basadur Applied Innovation.
If you want to bring any of these skills in-house, talk to us about our training programme where we can teach the various tools and techniques to you and your team.
Our most popular workshops
These workshops help our clients build stronger, more innovative teams, get clarity on how they want to innovate their business models, develop powerful, customer focused marketing plans and bring creativity into every step of their business processes.
Team Building and Organisational Change
This workshop helps your people focus on the positive and constructive behaviours that lead to high performing teams. We use the Lego Serious Play facilitation process which opens up communication, eliminates hierarchies and generates ideas through ‘building’ and storytelling. These workshops typically run from three hours to a whole day.
Map, change or innovate your Business Model
Using the Business Canvas, in this one day workshop you will map your organisation’s current business model and rapidly prototype innovations to the current model. This practical, fast paced workshop will benefit everyone from start-ups to established businesses who are looking to keep their business relevant in the eyes of their customers.
Transform your business with creative problem solving techniques
Do you have a gnawing issue that you just haven’t been able to resolve? We use tried and tested methodologies including Basadur’s Simplexity Thinking and the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process, to lend a different perspective and help you derive a creative solution for your problem that works for your business.
Design Thinking to put your customer at the centre of your business
In increasingly complex times, innovation and collaboration skills are becoming vital to businesses, and both principles are essential in Design Thinking. This workshop will explore how human-centered design can help develop innovative solutions for the most complex challenges.
Using Paid for Social Media to grow your business
Deciding how to use social media as a business building tool is fraught with the amount of choice available and how quickly the landscape is changing. This workshop will help you plan and test an effective campaign for your business.
Brand Positioning workshop
In this workshop we look at how your brand is currently positioned in the mind of your customers and how it fits within the competitive landscape. We then look at where you need to be positioned to achieve your business aims and develop an action plan to help you get there.
LEGO Serious Play
LEGO Serious Play is a facilitation process which opens up communication, eliminates hierarchies and generates ideas through ‘building’ and storytelling. It is one of the most engaging tools we have. It has a wide range of applications and is particularly compelling in the following three areas: team building, innovation and strategy.
