Failure culture in your organisation. Not as a buzzword. As a strategy.
Corporate Fuckup Nights · workshops & deep dives · the Failure Audit, for a strong failure culture inside your organisation.
What we mean when we say failure culture.
A failure culture that is actually lived is the way an organisation deals with failure. Both before and after it happens.
Failure culture is not an event after which everyone talks to each other nicely. Nor a workshop that is forgotten two weeks later. And it is definitely not a poster in the corridor reading “fail fast, learn faster”.
Failure culture is what actually happens in an organisation when something goes wrong. Is it reported or hidden? Is it analysed or explained away? Is it learnt from or repeated?
These questions determine whether a company stays capable of innovation, or whether it quietly makes the same mistake for the third time. We work with three formats that fit into one another. Each can be booked on its own. Together they have the greatest effect.
The most emotional format as an icebreaker. Psychological safety, demonstrated.
Picture a leader standing in front of the team. Not with a success story, but with a real failure story. Nothing talked up. No forced happy ending. Real. What happens next we have watched hundreds of times over more than ten years: the audience breathes out. Because someone has shown that it can be done.
That is the principle of the Corporate Fuckup Night. A deeply authentic programme. Two to four speakers (internal, external or mixed) each tell one failure story. Dejan — The Failure Enthusiast briefs the speakers personally and hosts the evening: he holds the room, asks the questions the audience does not dare to ask, and brings the individual stories together into one picture.
Confidentiality: what happens at the Fuckup Night stays at the Fuckup Night. No recordings without the express consent of everyone involved.
Failure culture is not learnt by listening.
Our workshops are not lecture rounds with a coat of group work. They are intensive working formats for teams and leaders who want to understand what their failure culture is today, and what it should be tomorrow.
How does your team talk about failure? What really happens after something goes wrong? Analysis, reflection, concrete fields of action.
Why avoiding risk in complex environments costs more than calculated failure. And how leaders demonstrate the difference.
From a one-off workshop to lasting practice. Concrete routines that work because they are simple.
Where does your failure culture actually stand? Not guessed. Measured.
Almost every organisation we know describes itself as “open”. Most of them even believe it. But ask two levels further down and a different picture often emerges.
Failure culture is not what the leadership team thinks. It is what employees do when something goes wrong, and whether they talk about it or hide it. Our Failure Audit makes that difference visible.
An anonymous employee survey · three to five clearly prioritised fields of action · on request: a presentation of the results to the leadership team.
As a starting point when there is no data · as a measure of success after action has been taken · as an argument at C-level with figures instead of feelings.
Not sure which format is the right one?
Write to us briefly about what is on your mind. We listen first, and then make a suggestion.
A small selection. Great names.
