MindMelds

In a nod to all of the Star Trek fans out there, a MindMeld is a highly curated and facilitated experience that creates deeper alignment, connection and understanding around strategic goals and initiatives. 

MindMelds are half- to-full-day facilitated experiences, done in-person, hybrid, or virtual.

Desired outcomes of a MindMeld for leaders and their teams: 

  • Find cross-functional alignment

  • Build connection

  • Get assumptions and questions out in the open 

  • Have clear and effective conversations

  • Discover a shared understanding of how to make effective decisions

  • Create an environment of empathy, safety, and trust

  • Ask for help and use each other as a resource

  • Experience more joy and less fear for BETTER RESULTS

 
MiNDMELD EXAMPLES

A Team of Teams

Through our highly interactive experiences we helped a new cross-functional team align and connect. Outcomes  were developing a  co-created vision and a plan to implement it..

 

Reforming

We helped teams come together after a reorganization at google. The keys were building new habits, developing a deeper understanding of shared responsibility and individual swim lanes and  new insights about individual and shared  passion for the work.


“On Your Feet made a big impact. We reached our highest potential as OYF helped us to understand each other and develop a set of best practices for working better together.” 

Amy Brusselback, Former Design Director | P & G

Some of Our Techniques
 

We’ve designed and customized MindMelds for organizations such as Uber, P&G, Google, Disney, Nike, and many others. Every MindMeld is unique based on  the teams t, but here are three common aspects:

 

1. See each other’s value

We’ve developed dynamic techniques to help participants understand the teams and individuals they collaborate with in deeper, more meaningful ways. You get real answers to that question:  “What exactly do you all do in your department?”


2. Build new skills for impactful collaboration

We often help set norms of the day (and beyond) by giving the group experiences to improve collaboration, innovation and co-creation. 

 

3. Create a new set of operating agreements 

Teams answer questions like:  What structures will help this collaboration? How will we respond to conflict? How will we celebrate each other?

 

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Why MindMelds?

So often today, internal teams need to come together to work together. This can be challenging.

When two or more different teams have to come together, they often don’t understand how each other operate, what they really care about, how they measure success, and what they need to be their best. And of course these days sometimes they may have never even met in person!

To help teams be successful, On Your Feet creates facilitated MindMeld experiences that are designed to support newly formed teams and groups to work together cross-functionally.

 

Nike MindMelds

We’ve helped Nike teams of all kinds MindMeld together across design, innovation, marketing, product, and more to find alignment, passion, and better results.

“Bringing in On Your Feet was a great way to give my design team some practical skills and to really help them open up.”

-Kay Tisch, VP Store Experience | Nike By You

Case Study 

Our Techniques

We designed and customized MindMelds for organizations such as Uber, P&G, Google, Disney, Nike, and many others. Every MindMeld is different to the teams present, but here are three common aspects. 

1. Build new skills for high-performance collaboration

We often help set norms of the day (and beyond) by giving the group experiences in improv practices to improve collaboration and co-creation.  Examples include noticing more, letting

3. Create a new set of operating agreements 

Teams answer questions like: What structures will help this collaboration? How will people respond to conflict? How will you celebrate each other? A Google team called theirs agreements “The Big Sur Accords.”


2.  See each other’s individual values 

We’ve developed dynamic techniques to help participants understand the teams and individuals they collaborate with in deeper, more meaningful ways. You get real answers to that question:  “What do you all do in your department?”

Leaders love our conference work because we use

  • Applied Improvisation

With our world class expertise in facilitation and applied improv, we keep the event flowing, help people stay in the moment, and pivot to what’s most useful.

  • Business Design

    Using our world class expertise in business practice and academia, we help create event plans geared toward explicit goals and then ensure the meeting achieves those goals.

  • Experiential Methods

    With our world class in-person and virtual delivery methods, we bring the most highly interactive, effective, and joyful experiences to team events.

 
Our expertise

Engaging Audiences

Here are five things you can do to connect with the most important people at your event: the audience.

 

Hybrid Solutions

Today, events and conferences are often hybrid, here are some unique solutions.

 
 

The Perfect Ending

Every big event should end with a powerful experience that summarizes the event, here’s the science and business behind why.

Keynotes

We believe Keynotes should be “obvious” and involve the audience, here’s two of our leaders demonstrating this philosophy in a TedX talk.