why splash
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Why Splash?

Here’s what professors Loïc Sadoulet and Jens Meyer of France’s Insead and CEDEP Business Schools believe to be the most important reasons they integrate Splash Projects into their executive programmes:

Experiential leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility combined

  • A Splash project is an opportunity to combine both individual & Corporate responsibility with learning objectives. Participants are involved in projects with sustainable targets and have the opportunity, outside of the office, to visualize their role in the context of the common good
  • During the process of a Splash project, the notion of Leadership vs Followership comes to the fore. Leadership opportunities and styles are contextualized and participants experience real life illustrations of the varying operational roles a leader has to play

    • Team building as a component of an executive development programme

  • As part of any Splash project, participants are obliged to communicate across teams, cultures and functions. These projects “humanise” all involved, developing an efficient platform for classroom discussion during the more academic facets of development programmes
  • Building Trust –experience in joint problem solving during a Splash project enables the constructive discussion of even particularly sensitive subjects

    • Benefits

    Delegates who have participated in a Splash project have very positive things to say about the experience. According to our clients, here are just some of the benefits.

  • Gives delegates a hands-on experience in which they feel they are making a tangible contribution to a group or a community which is less fortunate than they are.
  • Delegates have the chance to accomplish something. Many of them talk about how different this is from work where they often do not see the results of their efforts or never see physical manifestations of their work.
  • Enhances organisations’ Corporate Social Responsibility credentials – internally and externally.
  • Development of effective working relationships across an organisation – the project binds the team together with a meaningful experience.
  • Delegates engage in something very different from work which is active. This helps them make the transition from work to a learning environment.
  • The project uses and develops delegates’ full range of talents e.g. creativity, planning, networking, empathy output – which translates back into the working environment.
  • Participants feel like they accomplish something real rather than just doing a simulated group experience or exercise.
  • The live environment ensures there is a real pressure to deliver as a team outside of the normal working environment.
  • Since they work in teams or subgroups of the whole, some of their experiences replicate what happens in their organisations.
  • A chance to debrief real-time learnings during the day. Delegates can observe how they enter a new and unfamiliar situation, how they take up their new role, how comfortable/uncomfortable they are in this setting, what they learn about themselves.
  • The charity receives a professional output, overseen by experienced project managers and tradesmen who work to British Health and Safety Standards.
  • Increased public awareness for the charity and the corporate group should they wish.
  • An opportunity for a sustainable long-term relationship between the company and the charity.
  • Positive PR in an area targeted by the company – past projects have attracted TV, radio, web and newspaper coverage, as well as coverage in internal magazines and on intranets.
  • Integrated digital media and elearning options

    • Options for video content

  • Fun film, promotes CR, is great for marketing and can be used as a recruitment tool. Click here to see an example of a film
  • Training DVD, captures key messages and can be used to aid reflection on the process at the debrief event
  • As a part of a professional development toolkit for participants to take away and use with their own staff.
  • Embedded filmed content is developed into a bespoke interactive e-learning programme available to roll-out across your organisation.

    • PR

    As former journalists, the Splash PR team has excellent media contacts, superb writing and editing skills, and an inside knowledge of how newspapers, magazines, radio and TV work.With six years’ PR experience and clients from the private and public sector, the team is noted for its professionalism, originality and creative flair, and was recognised for “outstanding achievement” by the Institute of Public Relations.

    The services we offer include:

  • Pre-project Media Training – which employees can put into practical use during the community project.
  • Press Release promoting the project – Splash Projects can work independently or alongside client’s own PR departments
  • Articles for Internal Media – Splash Projects can produce articles for client’s internal newsletters and magazines as well as updates for intranet and websites
  • Expert PR advice identifying other possible areas of publicity for your company

    • Effective Management Skills

    Being involved in a Splash project really brings participants’ management skills back to basics. Essential management skills that are re-enforced include:

  • Defining goals, roles & process management
  • Stretching personal and team targets – learning to focus on the problem, defining the target and challenging their own assumptions
  • End Customer Focus. Market based values are underlined – differentiating between what participants can (want to) do and what’s needed
  • Project Management. Results are delivered in an unfamiliar setting and participants are obliged to recognise relevant signals of unanticipated change

    • Taking your splash project back to the workplace

    Digital media and elearning

    With Splash Projects you can commission bespoke filmed content and online training based on your individual project In the initial planning stages of your project, a media needs analysis enables Splash Projects to capture learning objectives and your delivery requirements. The media can be rolled out across your organisation, consistent in look and feel with your company’s brand values and ethos, allowing many more employees to benefit from the project you have already undertaken or any that you wish to complete in the future.