Shift and Share is a method from the Liberating Structures family – microstructures that help improve collaboration in teams and unleash unexpected creativity together. Shift and Share allows good ideas to spread throughout the team as innovators briefly and succinctly present their ideas at stations for small groups of listeners. At the same time, this reduces inhibitions among each other, so that an unbiased connection can develop between idea generators and the entire team. The entire team can build relationships between ideas by sharing them with each other, and the innovators themselves improve their presentation skills.
In digital transformation projects, this method is therefore very profitable. This is because heterogeneous teams often come together here that have never worked together before or have never met each other at eye level due to the hierarchies traditionally practiced in the company. Shift and Share can be used to increase collaborative innovation within the transformation team and build trust with each other. There can be friendly, athletic competition among each other that encourages the team to share ideas and work together. The method also avoids long presentation times by breaking up a frontal lecture situation into shorter communicative formats. Shift and Share is also suitable, for example, to implement the interim presentation of one or more project groups within a larger company, for example as an open day in the project office.
