Maximize Your Global Team’s Time Together with a Design Sprint

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Bringing a dispersed, global team together is no small task. Whether it's an on-site, off-site or a core week, these moments are rare, expensive, and high-stakes. Yet, for many organizations, they can feel like missed opportunities: long discussions without decisions, vague ideas without clear actions, and well-meaning collaboration that doesn’t deliver tangible results.

Does this sound familiar?

  • Unclear Focus: Collaborative sessions often veer off track or get bogged down in endless discussions without resolving key challenges.
  • Time Pressure: With just a few days together, there's an urgent need to make every minute count.
  • Unrealized Potential: Brilliant ideas are brainstormed but remain on the whiteboard, never making it into real, actionable plans.
  • Team Engagement: Keeping energy levels high and ensuring meaningful participation can feel like an uphill battle, especially with international teams.

As a leader, you feel the weight of responsibility: How can you ensure these precious hours deliver the alignment, innovation, and concrete outcomes your team needs? The stakes are high, and the pressure to deliver results is immense.

 

What If Your Team's Time Together Could Achieve More?

Imagine a process designed to solve these exact challenges. A way to bring clarity to chaos, structure to creativity, and action to ideas. Picture your team walking away not only with renewed connection and energy but also with a set of clear, actionable outcomes that align with your strategic goals.

The Challenges We Help You Overcome

1. Making Every Minute Count
Gathering global teams involves considerable effort and cost, and time together is always limited. Without structure, it’s easy to lose precious hours to unproductive discussions. Our approach ensures every minute is focused, productive, and aligned with your objectives.

2. Engaging a Diverse Team
Dispersed teams often struggle with alignment. Differing cultural perspectives and communication styles can make collaboration challenging. We bridge these gaps by creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued.

3. Ensuring Tangible Results
Too often, meetings end with ideas but no action. We address this by guiding your team through a structured process that turns concepts into real, actionable plans you can implement immediately.

4. Maintaining Energy and Motivation
It’s difficult to sustain energy across long sessions, especially for international teams adjusting to travel and time zones. We incorporate dynamic, interactive exercises that keep participants engaged, focused, and motivated.

 

The Solution:

Unlock Results with a Proven Design Sprint

The Design Sprint is a structured, facilitated process that solves complex challenges, accelerates decision-making, and delivers actionable outcomes—all within just two days. This isn't just another workshop. It’s a transformative experience designed to bring out the best in your team, foster collaboration, and drive innovation.

Here’s how we turn your team’s challenges into opportunities:

Structured Process: From initial brainstorming to prototyping, every step is carefully designed to keep your team on track and focused on outcomes.

Hands-On Tools: Using proven methods like design thinking and visual collaboration, we guide your team in turning ideas into clear, actionable plans.

Expert Facilitation: Our seasoned facilitators manage every aspect of the sprint, allowing you to focus on the content and your team’s strategic goals.

What You’ll Gain from a Design Sprint

1. Concrete, Actionable Outcomes


By the end of the sprint, your team will achieve tangible results—whether it’s a tested prototype, a detailed roadmap, innovative product ideas, or another specific goal—ensuring that your time and effort translate into real, measurable progress

2. Energized and Aligned Teams


Participants not only generate ideas but also build stronger connections, fostering trust and collaboration that extends beyond the sprint.

3. Practical Tools for Long-Term Impact


The methods and techniques your team learns during the sprint can be applied to future challenges, making it a long-term investment in your team’s capabilities.

 

Who Benefits from This Approach?

Our Design Sprint is ideal for various roles within medium to large organizations:

HR Directors / Heads of Human Resources: Build team cohesion and improve cross-functional collaboration with a structured, high-impact process.

Innovation Managers / Heads of Innovation: Develop actionable solutions to strategic challenges, fostering a culture of creativity and execution.

Project Managers / Team Leaders: Focus on strategy and collaboration while leaving the logistics and facilitation to us.

Marketing Directors / CMOs: Harness diverse perspectives to create innovative, customer-focused campaigns.

CEOs / Managing Directors: Achieve strategic alignment and actionable plans that drive organizational growth.

Why choose us?

With years of experience facilitating international workshops, we understand the complexities of working with dispersed teams. Here’s why our Design Sprint stands out:

Proven Track Record: We've helped teams across industries solve their toughest challenges with clarity and creativity.

Custom-Tailored Approach: Each sprint is designed around your unique needs, ensuring relevance and maximum impact.

Engaging Experience: We create a dynamic, interactive environment that keeps participants energized and focused throughout the process.

 

Previous Design Sprints

We have facilitated sprints for a wide variety of clients. For example:

 Dechra - 4 day Design Sprint 

Dechra is an international company specializing in veterinary pharmaceuticals and related products. 

This Design Sprint brought together 40 employees and team leaders from Europe and the United States, working collaboratively in smaller teams. Together, they developed 16 new, customer-centric and innovative product ideas. The sprint also provided an opportunity to share methodologies that promote team collaboration, customer-centric thinking, and innovation, fostering a culture of creativity and effective teamwork.

Feedback from Patrick Meeus (CSO): "It exceeded my expectations" and "Resources well spent". 

 De Heus - 2 Day Design Sprint 

De Heus improves access to safe, healthy food by providing products and services that support animal care and sustainable business growth.

In this Design Sprint, 35 marketing managers from around the globe came together to develop scalable marketing strategies and enhance services. Working in smaller groups, they tackled specific challenges and presented their solutions directly to the CEO.

 BPD - 2-Day Design Sprint 

BPD Bouwfonds Gebiedsontwikkeling is a 100% subsidiary of Rabobank. BPD develops areas with a strong focus on affordability and sustainability.

During this Design Sprint, two teams of designers, architects, and urban developers created two actionable concepts that can be transformed into real, buildable homes for families in an urban environment.

Feedback: "This approach enabled us to develop two well-thought-out concepts in a short period, allowing us to further refine our plans. It was pure time savings, with concepts we wouldn’t have come up with otherwise, thanks to the creative approach."

 Aldipress - 2-Day Design Sprint 

Aldipress is part of the BP Postgroup. As a key partner for publishers and retailers, Aldipress provides innovative and efficient solutions for assortment and circulation management, shelf presentation, and promotions, helping to maximize shelf profitability.

During this sprint, two cross-functional teams (commercial, marketing, operations, finance) developed two valuable, original, and feasible service concepts for the company's future growth. These valuable concepts were presented directly to the managing director.

Feedback from Andrea van Baaren (Managing Director): "They know how to get the most out of the teams" and "We now have several well-developed concrete ideas that we will take further."

Expert Facilitators

Rex Bierlaagh combines strong analytical skills with powerful creative intuition. As a trainer, coach, facilitator, board member, and hands-on leader, he has extensive experience in Innovation Management, guiding product and service development projects, and building entrepreneurial teams. He has a passion for creative thinking: one idea is no idea, and the stranger the idea, the greater the chance of success.

Rody Vonk is an international speaker, trainer, and facilitator who helps companies and organizations kick-start their innovation journeys. He delivers training sessions and facilitates workshops on innovation, business creativity, and design thinking. With his extensive experience across a wide range of organizations—from non-profits to multinationals—in various industries, he understands the key barriers to successful innovation and how to overcome them.

Download 10 Tips to Get the Most Out of a Design Sprint

Want to take your Design Sprints to the next level and make a real impact? Download 10 Free Tips to maximize the potential of your Design Sprint. Practical insights, immediately applicable, and guaranteed to deliver results. Fill in your details and get instant access to the download (PDF).

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