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Many thanks for the extraordinary effort to facilitate our SOUL kick-off process and the work with our project handbook. It has been a pleasure to work with you. We have both received good inspiration and a lot of professional sparring. The handbook has been really well received, and it is a powerful tool to bring the global team even closer together. We are also very pleased with the PowerPoint slide deck, which we will use for many years to come.

Revitalisation of our Network Group with Zoom, Mural and Excellent Facilitation

We finally got a meeting in the network again – and it was much needed! Throughout the network’s 7-year lifespan, all our meetings had been with physical attendance. We needed to re-orient ourselves, on top of canceled meetings and doubts about the way forward. Finn helped us start a great dialogue about the network’s potential in the virtual age. This was very valuable for us.

It surprised me how diverse a virtual tool Mural is. We used it in our planning, the facilitation of the meeting, and for meeting minutes. This requires a good and knowledgeable introduction, like the one we got from Finn! But then great potential also opens up in the use of Mural in the virtual set-up. This project was a clear extension of my way of understanding virtual meetings. This meeting was a success for several reasons:

A thorough preparation of organisers and participants. This included design, mind-setting through a Qvest process, and onboarding (Mural and Zoom).
The concrete facilitation of the virtual meeting.
Interaction between Zoom and Mural.
Last, but not least, a very pleasant and constructive collaboration with Finn!
The workshop gave us input to relevant meeting themes. We will propose three of the themes for the network’s three annual meetings next year.

The network is up and running again – with the opportunities provided by virtual meetings!

På elegant og effektiv vis bidrog Charlotte til at skabe en dialog, hvorigennem vi fik skabt klarhed omkring potentialet i vores team. Gennem kvalificeret faglig sparring omkring modellerne, oplevede vi også Charlottes veludviklede evner som procesfacilitator.

Udover en række flotte og velstrukturerede modeller, som vi stadig bruger, rykkede vi som team tættere sammen.

Charlotte har en ambitiøs tilgang til både proces og resultat. Hun er skarp og effektiv – på en yderst behagelig måde.

Jag kan bara säga att denne coaching är det som gett mig mest under FEW-utbildningen (Future Executive Women).

Den öppnar dörrar jag inte trodde fanns, leder till att jag söker mig vidare i riktningar som jag inte hade tänkt från början men som känns helt rätt.

En jättenyttig resa som alla borde göra och som fortsätter långt efter att man avslutat utbildningen.

Our Prototype is now used by 8 Municipalities

The collaboration with Finn Kollerup was very rewarding for us. He inspired our participants to think about their everyday challenges in a new way. Finn challenged us in a good way – with insight and respect – and created a space where creativity could flourish.

We prepared 5 use cases/prototypes from the workshop, which we invited to a market dialogue about. One concept – about optimising the use of public buildings – is now actually used by 8 municipalities.

Det blev en rejse til mig selv.

Ikke, at jeg var blevet væk fra den, jeg er, men kurset hjalp mig i den grad til at fokusere på, hvad jeg føler og hvad jeg tænker. Det glemmer jeg tit i dagligdagen, uanset om det er i mit lederjob, som mand, som familiefar, ven eller hvilken rolle jeg nu spiller i livets mange forskellige sammenhænge.

Kurset gav mig større indsigt i, hvem jeg er, og vigtigst, hvordan jeg fortsætter med at være en, jeg godt kan lide at være. Èn, der har det godt med sig selv. Det er alt andet end banalt, og med en positiv og vedvarende tro på, at vi kan gøre “det rigtige” for os selv, er Ernest og Charlotte eminente instruktører. På en gang ambitiøse og rare at være sammen med.

Finn facilitated a conference and a design sprint to help us take the next step in a complicated process.
Our aim was to leverage data to improve health and prevent disease. Finn has helped us to sharpen the focus and create common understanding. Finn’s facilitation gathered knowledge and key players around our project. It is difficult to create changes in political systems. It surprised me a lot that we managed to involve so many competencies and key people in the process.

Facilitation, involvement, and focus is really something that Finn masters. Things were tightly controlled, everyone spoke up, and we ended up with a very useful result.

We created an invaluable common understanding and knowledge in this process. We are in a different place today than before the collaboration with Finn. We ascended several steps up the ladder and we are much further now with our process and project.

High Profile Online Summit with 100+ Participants

Our task was to facilitate an efficient process and collect the results from a high-profile meeting. A special factor was that the schedule was enormously tight. We had to recruit 100 participants and design the entire process in one week. Finn introduced us to a new on-line visual collaboration platform (Miro). This was instrumental for the successful design, execution and documentation from the summit. Finn made us feel confident and safe with Miro, despite the fact that it was completely untested ground for the ministry.

At the summit, many different stakeholders discussed how to cope with covid-19. The results of the summit were documented in a detail that could not have been achieved by conventional techniques. Very convincing! This very extensive data set will be “fuel” for many projects for a long time. Building the personal relationship and trust has been very valuable. It is something you can return to when the need arises again. Finn is excellent at the creative – the demanding – the difficult – and the challenging.

The summit was a huge success for the top management, the Minister, and for the participants. The participants felt that they had a real opportunity to contribute. And even more important, that they were heard and taken seriously.

Jeg har været igennem en stor omvæltning i løbet af kursusperioden, både personligt og karrieremæssigt.

Kurset har hjulpet mig til at være bedre til at takle de udfordringer, jeg står overfor, simpelthen ved at være mere tro overfor mig selv og dermed have en bedre mavefornemmelse ved de beslutninger jeg tager.

Samtidig føler jeg mig bedre rustet fremadrettet med hensyn til, at have styrket mit netværk ved hjælp af den fortrolighed vi opnåede både i min egen gruppe og på holdet som helhed.

Der er ingen tvivl om, at jeg vil anbefale kurset “Selvledelse – bliv din egen autoritet” til andre interesserede.

Jag hade aldrig tidigare direkt funderat över min inre drivkraft och vad den betyder för mitt liv och mina mål. Det innebär att jag heller aldrig vetat vilken min inre drivkraft är och har alltså aldrig fattat mina beslut eller formulerat mina mål med det i ”ryggen”.

nownow coaching öppnade mina ögon! Det var faktiskt som en stor befrielse. Jag kan inte påstå att jag använder mig av den kunskapen nu i alla beslut men jag använder det vid alla viktiga beslut i mitt liv.

Conference and Design Sprint around Health Data

Finn facilitated a conference and a design sprint to help us take the next step in a complicated process.

Our aim was to leverage data to improve health and prevent disease. Finn has helped us to sharpen the focus and create common understanding. Finn’s facilitation gathered knowledge and key players around our project. It is difficult to create changes in political systems. It surprised me a lot that we managed to involve so many competencies and key people in the process.

Facilitation, involvement, and focus is really something that Finn masters. Things were tightly controlled, everyone spoke up, and we ended up with a very useful result.

We created an invaluable common understanding and knowledge in this process. We are in a different place today than before the collaboration with Finn. We ascended several steps up the ladder and we are much further now with our process and project.

Development and Communication of IT Strategy

We involved a large number of teachers and students to develop our IT strategy. The skilled facilitation and structured process design from Finn Kollerup allowed us to get a broad discussion and a precise scope for our strategy.

We generated 565 ideas, which were subsequently narrowed down to 11 strategy concepts. The process has created a greater mutual understanding between the IT department and the rest of the organisation. The strategy has definitely given us a common direction for the development of our future IT services. It is amazing how well structure and creativity can work together, when it’s done properly.

The most valuable part for us was that Finn documented and facilitated the process after the event, helping us not only to formulate the concepts, but also to visualise the strategy. This made the communication much more powerful than a traditional written document.

The result for us was an IT strategy with support from employees and managers, and a very efficient communication of the strategy.

Att arbeta med Charlotte Rosenberg är underbart, hennes erfarenhet och kunskap ger så mycket såväl till oss på Trust som är programansvariga och till kvinnorna som deltar i FEW.

Charlotte har en förmåga att inspirera och utveckla människor på ett fascinerande sätt, med skratt och lek men ändå med ett stort allvar. Att kvinnorna samtidigt som de utvecklas personligt också skapar sig en tydlig aktivitetsplan för vad de ska agera på i sina liv gör ju att det händer något!

Hackathon with a Twist
We had several goals with the hackathon: To bring different departments together – which do not usually talk to each other; to create an innovation culture where we work more to understand the problem before we throw ourselves into solving it; to think a little more about self-organization and dare to engage in Open Space meetings.

Our greatest value has been that many employees now have seen how innovation happens not only in the R&D department but as different initiatives and inspiration from several departments. In addition, 27 good ideas were developed by 160 employees in 2 days. All ideas were presented in one format, which made the evaluation much easier.

I am very satisfied with our collaboration, which was continuously adapted as our understanding and maturity increased. Finn’s commitment during the process has been a decisive factor. With professional depth and experience, we were guided throughout the entire project. It has been inspiring and moved by our perception of how we should develop going forward. You may read more (in Danish) about the Edlund Hackathon here.

Jeg har arbejdet med Charlotte i et coaching forløb i ca 9 måneder og det har været særdeles givtigt! Charlotte er en super coach – vores samtaler er altid tankevækkende og Charlottes evne til at udfordre udfra et åbent sted uden forudintagelser og hendes talet for visualisering bringer ALTID nye vinkler på mine udfordringer og belyser nye veje frem – også dem, som jeg ikke selvstændigt havde fået øje på. Mit coachingforløb har åbnet en ny og kraftfuld dimension i mit personlige lederskab, som har gavnet samspillet med både medarbejdere, kolleager og den øvrige ledelse. Det har rykket mig længere end noget lederkursus, jeg nogensinde jeg deltaget på – og det er efterhånden blevet til en del – og kan derfor kun varmt anbefales!!

Systematic Ideation Workshop with Nutrition Experts

We got systematics and structure on the ideas we had. Also, the workshop had new approaches to ideation. Indeed, learning new ways to work has been very valuable to us.

Finn’s preparation and facilitation of the workshop were excellent. Furthermore, we received very comprehensive documentation of all our results. As a result, we can easily revisit our concepts, without having to do a new workshop. We got concrete ideas we could move on in our system.

Excellent Innovation Keynote Speaker

We have benefited greatly from using Finn Kollerup as an innovation keynote speaker in our Product Managers network, where he has inspired us with concrete innovation experience and tools, and insights about Innovation Campsusing the FORTH Innovation Method.

Perfect Assortment Strategy Workshop

In connection with FLEXA’s turnaround in 2012 we needed to have a close look at our future business possibilities. With a new overall strategy in place, my wish was to outline the framework for our product range. To help us with this, we hired Finn to design and run an Assortment Strategy Workshop. In this process, we were introduced to the workshop form and a multidisciplinary approach in FLEXA, and designed the perfect workshop in collaboration with the company. During this project, Finn really listened to our challenges, and showed great commitment in all phases. The yield of the workshop was an overview of our current wide product range, and a common overview of the framework for our future range. Today we are no longer a bed specialist, but a full room provider for children, and we are much more consumer oriented.

...og jeg må sige at vores seminar i sommers på Tivoli Hotel VIRKELIG HAR RYKKET BIG TIME 🙂 🙂 🙂

Fremgang på alle målepunkter! Og ikke mindst de kvalitative input er meget positive!!!

Stor stor tak Charlotte! Var sgu aldrig kommet så langt uden dig :-)”

Innovation Culture Project

We’ve got the word on the table, and created a common internal understanding of what obstacles we must overcome to become more innovative. So far we have reached a common understanding and momentum to change the innovation culture and organization.

Finn has used ‘Dynamic Facilitation’ very efficiently to get a small group of people to truly and honestly get in depth with challenges and solutions. The project has created better dialogue and understanding between different layers in the organization.

We are far from finished and I look forward to that the Innovation Agent Project also leads to that we identify and implement behavioral changes.

Finn’s great strength is to create enthusiasm and confidence and quickly getting to the important core by asking the right questions. As an offshoot of the project with Finn we have made a simple, but value-added, project portfolio management process.

Innovative and Energetic Company Workshop

You gave us a common understanding of what it is in our culture that gives us an “edge” and an understanding of the necessary balance between flexibility and structure – and ideas about which elements we need to keep and what has to be changed, to maintain and develop our competitiveness and innovation. We are on a long journey from “Garage Company“ to professional business, with a daily demand that we improve our methods to stay ahead of the game.
The workshop gave everyone an insight into the need to change, but also that we have to struggle to find the right balance in how we do things. Everyone in the company has different requirements in order to do their best work, but only with the right balance can we win as a team.
I liked the fresh approach to the task and the innovative methods used. I have attended many so-called “creative sessions” and often they have not been very inspiring. This one contained many new and fresher ways of working, which, more than anything else I’ve tried, activated all participants, creating a happy atmosphere and a really good day – with excellent documentation in the form of ideas and visual output.
BUT the most valuable was what happened in people – understanding, participation and to remind us that this had been really good journey so far. Finn is excellent at creating a fresh atmosphere, with good new and innovative methods, and to drive the day with a constant high pace, in a way in which the participants are excited about what is going to happen next – ALTERNATIVE AND NEW!!!

Selvledelse er uden sammenligning det kursus, som har givet mig mest på det personlige plan.

Igennem interessant teori og kreative øvelser har jeg fået en større erkendelse af, hvad der er vigtigt, og hvad der er mindre vigtigt i mit liv. Kort fortalt så har jeg lært mig selv bedre at kende.

Kurset har givet mig inspiration til konkrete handlinger både arbejdsmæssigt og privat. Jeg er blevet bedre til at sige fra og bedre til at holde fokus på det, der betyder mest for mig.

Development of Common IT Project Model

With this workshop, we got the entire department engaged, and created a greater awareness and ownership of our common IT project model. We were amazed by the ability you had to inspire our people, and your use of creative methods. Your ability to engage in a creative and focused dialogue with us during the design and planning of the workshop, and the documentation and drawings from the workshop was very valuable for us, and will be important for our follow-up activities in the project.

Thoughtful and Fun Teambuilding

We had a great day. The team spirit in our newly established group was enhanced, and people got to know each other in new ways. It was surprising and revealing how different people react to the same challenge. The element of surprise in the process was great, and created room for laughter, discovery and deep thought.

Understanding Our Future Leadership Roles

During these two days with Finn and Charlotte we got an opportunity to reflect on our own leadership roles, our strengths as a leadership team, and our options in the future. This helped us to prepare ourselves for the organizational challenges we were facing at the time.

I am very pleased that we through our work with you can continue to achieve new insights and find new ways forward. Cooperating with you is always extremely professional and I always feel confident that your facilitation and your coaching approach creates results for my management team. You show great dedication to understand our needs, and are dazzling facilitators. Through you we have gained a deeper insight into our own leadership roles.

Systematic Executive Strategy Workshop

Finn Kollerup facilitated the generation of input to a new business plan for us, in our Raise the Bar strategy project. As a result, we have carried out new recruitments, and have initiated various internal projects. It was very helpful to have eyes from outside our own group, to get new ideas to move us forward, and to get a systematic overview of our organisational possibilities.

Staff Creativity Training with Ideku

We had staff training for employees of the Municipality of Køge in 2013, where Finn introduced Ideku, which I have subsequently used as a tool in my work with management teams. Ideku® has given the groups I have worked with a good scheme and a good common overview of our idea development processes.

You Always Deliver Top Notch Facilitation

We have worked with you on many projects, at network events, Case Competitions, innovation camps and stakeholder meetings.

Each time we have collaborated, I have been confirmed in how important it is to have facilitators on board at our events, and how it greatly enhances the value of our dividends. We always feel in completely safe hands when we work with the two of you. You deliver to every single time – and it has been many times :-).

You read our thoughts: Even with a rough sketch of an event, you always manage to create exactly the arrangement we had imagined. Your professional facilitation has contributed to a positive experience of cooperating with DTU, and consequently the renewal of several important collaboration contracts with our customers.

Creativity with a Business Oriented Mindset

I have experienced that my employees take greater responsibility for their own results, and are more accountable for their own contribution. Everybody are much more engaged in project activities, have greater passion about their work, and greater courage to contribute to the renewal of processes and solutions.

This project have contributed to the development of our people to be more proactive, and to provide conclusions rather than just raw data. Our employees now manage to redeem their creativity with a business oriented mindset.

I have had the pleasure to work with Finn in several projects since 2008. Finn is great at staging the right framework, and to facilitate change and innovation processes. Finn’s contribution is crucial in these projects, despite the fact that most of the work must be carried out internally – by ourselves.

Since the work of change and innovation often brings you into unknown territories, many are uncomfortable and may respond reluctantly or sluggish; therefore, it is crucial that the facilitator can push and buoy people AND create a pleasurable atmosphere – and Finn is outstanding here. As a former employee in Pharma industry it also helps a lot that Finn understands our world.

Innovation Workshop for Insulation Products

Finn was very good at structuring the process, and to get as much as possible out of our innovation workshop. We also realised that we need to prepare even better next time, by establishing a complete overview of the strengths and weaknesses of our product / system, so that we can be even more specific in our development of new concepts.

We were surprised to learn that we had a somewhat limited overview of our product and manufacturing, and to learn how users (the installers) perceive our product, and how they rate it against competitor products. Thus, we have sharpened our focus, and have realised that we have to involve the installers much more when we develop new products and associated services.

As a consequence, we have built a full-scale test facility on our innovation factory which we will test existing and new products. We will involve installers from 4-5 countries and get their direct feedback (positive as well as critical) so that we can have a clear starting point for our subsequent innovation work. We have also launched a project group to create a root cause analysis of the product-related challenges we have at our factories and how we can improve the situation.

Efficient Internal Innovation Campaign

We needed to follow up on an Internal Innovation Campaign. Finn gave us constructive and accurate input to our innovation process at a time when it needed energy and determination. This gave us a better process, with more employee involvement and a simpler choice of ideas to move forward with. Finn is excellent at planning and implementation of innovation workshops, including communication of the content and expected output from these. Based on the workshops, 3 new innovation projects are currently being implemented, and placed on the market 1/2 – 1 year from now – and hopefully generating profits.

We Made a Convincing Prototype in Just 5 Days

In one week, we created a convincing software program mock-up, which we tested with 5 users on the last day. The mock-up was used shortly after to successfully convince our management team that this project should be prioritised.

Since this is rather new, we haven’t developed the final product yet. But the detailed scoping of the project is much easier with a mock-up as background material.

By high quality guidance from Finn, we managed to get the project stripped to the bone very fast. Hereby it was easy to focus on the right things at the right time. By dedication and timely planning, it just worked out very well. Finn was very dedicated and precise, and putting forward the right questions at the right time. I was thrilled to work with Finn, and with this sprint, we managed to pass the start gate of the project.

Kick-off, Visualisation and Project Handbook for Large Clinical Trial

Many thanks to Finn and Charlotte for the extraordinary effort to facilitate our SOUL kick-off process and the work with our project handbook. It has been a pleasure to work with you. We have both received good inspiration and a lot of professional sparring. The handbook has been really well received, and it is a powerful tool to bring the global team even closer together. We are also very pleased with the PowerPoint slide deck, which we will use for many years to come.