“Music speaks, where words fail.“
Hans Christian Andersen
When was the last time your team was UNPLUGGED?
Experienced people-managers know it from painful experience: What is happening in a team behind the scenes, entirely subjectively, often has much more influence on success than the apparent facts and/or information.
High Tech needs High Human.
“Mindset Rulez”—this also applies to the digital world. Sustainable business transformation is based on how successfully we can change the inner orientation of a team and how agile and innovative is the execution afterward. The first step in the process is gaining a clear understanding of where each individual stand here and now. Skipping it inevitably means losing critical time, energy, and significantly reducing the potential for success.
UNPLUGGED:
Helps your team share insights where words fail.
esthra helps you quickly and effectively to determine a realistic and honest mood or mindset barometer.
With both intuitive and pragmatic methods of the UNPLUGGED workshops, the phases and status of your team’s inner transformation are finally becoming visible.
We set against the high complexity of current challenges (“high tech”), an effective set of instruments on the human side (“High Human”), and so increases the chance of a sustainable, “stereo” transformation.
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“Emotional competence becomes a key qualification… It is also important in an increasingly digital world bringing people physically together and so building up and maintaining relationships.”
Stefan Ries, Chief HR Officer, SAP
UNPLUG first – Let new power in!
Discover the power of UNPLUGGED Reality—mobilize untapped potential for positive changes!
Decision-makers successfully use UNPLUGGED if:
- Vision and goals need a real grip
- Invisible dynamics, emotions/feelings, or a ”fixed mindset” in the team stand in the way of positive change
- Your team is very international/divers and/or highly challenged in the areas of digitalization/innovation
- The qualities of communication and TRUST are on edge due to remote work/little direct time
- If you want a sustainable “kick” in team spirit/development or wish a true cultural shift
Key UNPLUGGED Features:
- Individual preparation based on coaching questions
- The inner, creative process of each participant starts BEFORE and continues AFTER the workshop.
- In the workshop itself, music is used as an analogy/language to communicate and understand subjective impressions and experiences.
- On request and depending on the situation, you can also go to the studio together and write, i.e., a team song
- Required physical presence is manageable (depending on depth/target 0.5 to 1.5 days).
- However, the positive effects extend far beyond.
What teams love about UNPLUGGED:
- The unique music experience allows you to perceive each other “creatively offline,” only “person-to-person.”
- Subjective truth and yes, even feelings are finally welcome—without discussion, hierarchy, forced “coolness”—even (and especially) on hard-core business topics.
- Workshop design and moderation ensure a “judgment-free zone,” thus, increasing the one and collective change security.
- Teams find new, sustainable “connections” to each other, and together they develop new, creative solutions.
- The diversity in the group evolves from a limitation to a superpower.
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
Victor Hugo
Developed by:
Eszter Debreczeni,
formerly HR leadership at Microsoft/Pepsi/DHL, now the owner of the esthra HR Orchestration. For UNPLUGGED, the international expert in the high-tech/digital workplace has brought together essential elements of her almost-professional singer career and the critical expertise from her career as an HR executive. The methodology has been actively in use since 2017 and is under continuous development.
Music-based transformation – Sounds of a true change.
Get your team tuned to 2020 now!
UNPLUGGED – music-based transformation workshops
For your kick-start to change
For: teams of 5 to 10 members
Duration: 0.5 day-1 day (depending on demand)
Expected outcomes:
- Unique team experience
- Creative reconnection to each other
- Regarding the upcoming goals and challenges
- Real, immediately actionable insights instead of superficial information
HRMONIA – music-based transformation process
For sustainable transformation
UNPLUGGED Workshops plus targeted HR Orchestrierung – this is where the focus is on the harmonious fusion of leadership/talent/organization.
Duration: 3 to 6 months
Expected outcomes:
- Innovatively redefined goals with agile implementation
- Measurable changes with concrete business impact
A unique version is available for HR teams: For “New Work” – “New Tune” / How to become a role model in the organization.
Each workshop is individually “composed.” Individual modules can be combined and scaled as desired.
Contact us for your version!
The sound of our customers
UNPLUGGED has taken our team spirit to another level. We have achieved outstanding and sustainable successes with esthra in our leadership workshop.”
Thank you for the UNPLUGGED leadership workshop! And also for the great and timely summary with concrete recommendations. `{`UNPLUGGED`}` has brought our team closer to achieving our long-term goals.
Our team consists of great ‘musicians’ - and yet it hasn’t really worked in harmony for a while. The situation was frustrating for everyone — we had to do something, something sustainable. The music-based workshops of esthra quickly led to honest exchange, which was lots of fun, by the way, and ultimately a greatly improved interaction. I can only highly recommend the methodology and esthra as a partner for this. Thank you very much from the whole team!
Thank you very much! `{`... `}` Using music in this unconventional way was a very positive experience. The UNPLUGGED Leadership Workshop was fantastic — we have come a long way as a team.
Writing our own song for us was a very long-lasting experience: it showed us that we can work together agilely as a team outside the office. In this way, the whole department has come out of its own comfort zone and at the same time, grown as a team.
A very tailored response to the individual interests of the participants and the targeted work towards concrete results were the principal instruments ensuring the workshop’s success. The dramaturgy was similar to that in a good piece of music.
Ready for a Soundcheck?
Receive your individual and non-binding consultation on which approach suits your goals and team.
Arrange a phone call now with the developer of the UNPLUGGED methodology, Eszter Debreczeni.