Aphra van den Berg, Operational Management Consultant, Zorg en Zekerheid, Leiden
“It’s my job to keep people active and break the ‘normal’ work routine. I prefer to do so in the brainstorm room, our Coco room. In this Conversation Company room we are free to be creative and scrum.
For us, the magnetic whiteboard wall is the ideal tool to depict milestones. To look back at previous weeks. To set common goals, determine team ambitions and make them concrete. This wall helps us to make collaboration transparent and make certain matters a subject of discussion. It creates opportunities to work effectively within a group.
The great thing about whiteboard paint is that you’re not limited to a square but that you can use the entire space to make a game board, for instance. Writing and drawing on walls and tables. Where else are you allowed to do that?! It makes me happy. You break the daily routine. It helps you to come up with different ideas. It gives me pleasure to do things that you’re normally not supposed to do. I notice that it creates space and freedom if you literally work outside the box. It gives us more freedom. It helps to make serious matters fun.”
