Pivoting while Painting
Are your employees stuck in a rut? Is it time to restrategize your internal goals?
Work with our facilitators to apply the opportunity to pivot while painting. Prior to this workshop, your team will be given a choice of two different paintings to work on as a group.
Hosted in the ACOA art studio, your team will begin to work independently on painting this image with the help of a painting instructor. As the class continues, your business facilitator will combine elements of your team goals and challenges into the act of painting this image. Halfway through this workshop, they will be asked to begin to change their trajectory (or PIVOT) and turn their painting into something entirely different. Some outcomes may be better than the original, some not as much, and some may be hilarious.
Using the completed paintings, our workshop facilitator will discuss the negatives and positives in pivoting mid-painting. What was the overall outcome? How did it make us feel- stressed, anxious, did you just go with the flow? Applying what they learned to real workplace topics could turn this fun little class into a real team strategy session!
BONUS: Your employees will have a work of art to display in their office or desk
Meet Our Facilitators:
Scot McCarthy StyleWise Partners – Workshop Facilitator
Scot is an organizational performance consultant with 20+ years of experience growing talent at the individual, team and leadership levels. He has a unique set of process and people competencies developed from his days as a GE Six Sigma Process Improvement Master Blackbelt and his passion for helping people unlock their skills and motivation to succeed.
Sarah Proctor – ACOA Special Events and Corporate Rentals Manager – Painting Instructor
Sarah is the Special Events and Corporate Rentals Manager at the Academy Center of the Arts, joining the Academy team in January 2019. Painting, drawing and sketching have found a way to creep into all phases of her career. After graduating from Florida State University with a degree in Interior Design, she became the resident rendering specialist for an architectural firm. While attending Virginia Commonwealth University to study art history, she worked several years in art conservation, working on and studying restoration projects at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. In true pivoting fashion, Sarah has adapted her skills as an artist and contributed to the Academy’s Education Department as a virtual paint instructor during COVID. The arts have remained an important part of her personal and professional life.
Time & Costs:
3-hour Workshop – $45 per person (Minimum of 12 participants)
To learn more, contact Tabitha Abbott, Director of Operations, by email at [email protected]
