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About us

We are a small organizational productivity and health firm dedicated to helping teams enhance their communication across disciplines, bringing clarity and a holistic perspective to their collaborative efforts. Our approach fosters innovation by guiding teams to continuously improve their workflows and solutions while teaching both teams and individuals the principles of productive and healthy work habits.

Led by Ro Fernandez, an expert in strategy, product development, organizational transformation, innovation, and productivity, our team benefits from her extensive experience. Ro has authored books and led conferences on how to lead better meetings and how to win in a competitive market, and she brings international experience from various industries, including clean energy, manufacturing, SaaS, furniture, consulting and music.

We offer both products and services. You can browse our products and books as an alternative to our services or contact us to learn more about how we can adapt our services to your business.

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Services

Workshops & Training/Growth Programs

Leading Better Meetings meetings

WORKSHOP

Is your team equipped with the skills needed to lead engaging and productive meetings? Provide them with a simple framework that is easy to remember and can be implemented immediately to lead better meetings.

In this workshop, your team will practice the framework and the art of asking powerful questions.

Duration: 1 -3 hours    |   How: Remote/In-person.

Play to Win strategy

WORKSHOP

Play to Win is a framework used by teams to define long-term and short-term strategies by thinking like their competitors first. This is a very fun and strategic workshop for teams and leadership.

Duration: 6 hours to 3 days    |   How: Remote/In-person. (Recommendation: In-person)

Building the Future strategy

WORKSHOP

What if you could predict the future to better tackle business opportunities? This is possible by analyzing today’s trends and their symptoms. During this workshop, your team will collaborate and discuss current trends, exploring how these trends will shape the future of your products or services within your ecosystem. The discussion will conclude with the identification of potential opportunities for your business, giving you a competitive advantage in building the future rather than merely adapting to it.

Duration: 1 to 2 hours.    |   How: Remote/In-person.

12 Dimensions of a Healthy and Productive Team leadership

WORKSHOP

What’s your leadership team exploring when evaluating which activities or areas should be improved to keep the team motivated, productive, and autonomous in achieving results? Learn about the 12 dimensions of a healthy and productive team and how to use this framework to build a continuous improvement plan, enabling your team to do their best work. This workshop is for the leadership team and can be conducted once or annually to ensure continuous improvement.

Duration: 3-7 hours.    |   How: Remote/In-person.

Team & Individual Growth team growth

WORKSHOP

Is your leadership team effectively providing performance reviews and feedback to help employees grow and stay motivated? Giving constructive feedback is challenging. In this workshop, the leadership team will learn a simple framework to provide better feedback and create action plans for continuous employee growth. This practical workshop will equip leaders with at least one feedback and action plan for one of their team members by the end of the session.

Duration: 3-6 hours.    |   How: Remote/In-person.

Leading Better Meetings meetings

TRAINING

Provide the training and support needed for your team to improve their skills in leading meetings and transitioning some meetings to asynchronous formats. This training is customized to your team and goals and can be targeted to specific departments or start with the leadership team.

Duration: 4 days to 3 months  |   How: Remote/In-person.

Working Asynchronously (Mastering remote work) remote work

TRAINING

Is your team spending all day in meetings? Is this habit slowing down progress and decision-making? Productive and effective collaboration can be done asynchronously, but the team needs to change their habits. This training will help transform the way your team works, reducing meetings by at least 20% and giving people back the time and energy to get things done. This training is customized to your team and company.

Duration: 15 days to 3 months  |   How: Remote/In-person.

Leadership Growth leadership

TRAINING

Share techniques and frameworks that can help leaders manage their time and their teams effectively. From providing feedback to employees to leading better 1-on-1s.

Duration: 7 days to 2 months  |   How: Remote/In-person.

Organizational Growth productivity

COACHING

Are you trying to scale? Is there chaos, with a lot of time wasted on recurring and administrative tasks? Do teams report a lack of clarity? Get help defining and implementing processes that provide autonomy and flexibility to your teams. This will help managers gain time back, allow your team to feel more confident in making decisions, and ensure things get done faster while keeping track of decisions.

Duration: 1 to 5 months  |   How: Remote/In-person.

ToolKit

Our tools are now available at @Nova for free.

Empathy map

The popular empathy map tool is a collaborative and visual way to illustrate what a user thinks, feels, says, and does. This tool externalizes the knowledge about users in order to create a shared understanding of their needs and provides information to help decision-makers.

Buyer Journey

Understand how your customers travel through the sales process and how they feel while making a purchasing decision.

Product Strategy Canvas

The product strategy canvas is a tool that helps product teams develop a product strategy based on thinking not just about product features, but about how to bring the product to market, how to create the right promotions and pricing structure for your market, how to onboard new users, etc

Our values

Empower people to be responsible and proactive

Each person on the team is responsible and each person should empower others to reach excellence. To ensure people make careful decisions organizations need to have clear goals and open communication with their team.

Teams are built on peer-to-peer communication, where everyone is excited to solve problems and help the organization move to the next level.

Understanding the user and market opportunities

With Play&Tell, every person in the team is able to empathize with customers or end-user and find ways to master business strategies. Play&Tell designs frameworks that apply human factors, ergonomics, usability, motivation, psychology, and other factors that enhance the efficiency and success of ideas.

New ideas shouldn’t be hard to find

Play&Tell tools are meant to help teams find ‘aha’ moments faster using lateral thinking, structured frameworks co-working, and other techniques.

Picasso said, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working”. Start working with the right tools and you will make sure the team has an efficient way to find and evolve ideas.

Create a transparent and dynamic environment to develop great ideas

We believe internal and external transparency allows teams and companies to have more access to ideas and solutions. At the same time, teams know what and why they do what they do

Evolve the way your people approach problems

Approach problems with a clear process and empower everyone on your team (community/ students) to collaborate and share their perspectives and ultimately achieve consensus.

We believe that co-creating and collaborative teams reach success faster. Play&Tell provides tools to help teams co-create and to develop solutions to problems in a playful and open-minded environment with a mindset of curiosity and creativity.

Build better teams

We create playful environments where failure is not a barrier but is instead a step closer to success.

The Play & Tell framework reinforces dynamic conversations and playful environments where people feel encouraged to explore, experiment, be creative, be curious & take risks.

Our mission

Make business, innovation and team-development tools and methodologies available to everyone in the world.

International work

Play to Win Workshop

Play to Win Workshop, Vancouver (Canada)

The Art of Asking Powerful Questions (Book)

Ro Fernandez

Ro Fernandez, Presenting her new book ” The Art of Asking Powerful Questions”

Ro Fernandez

Ro Fernandez at Collision, Toronto (Canada)

conference

Ro Fernandez at Plug&Play, Alberta (Canada)

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