Organization: Training Company
Client: Employee - USA, 2014
Reason for Gainstorm Session:
- Employee took part in Life Purpose Gainstorm Sessions run by department director looking for ways to match talents to job roles
- Employee's current role was managing web content
- While employee was doing a great job, she was a single mom in a small town with not a lot of room for pay growth at the company
Gainstorm Session Location:
- Private conference room, Gainstorm template hand-drawn on letter-sized paper
Gainstorm Session Result:
- One Gainstorm Session, 60-mins
- Employee remembered when growing up, "food was love"
- Acknowledged her ultimate passion was cooking in the style of cuisine from her parents' motherland
- If there was no limit to what she could pursue, she would open a restaurant
- Created 5-year vision and plan for opening 40-60 seat restaurant
Long-Term Result:
- 2016 - Experimented with lunch menus for coworkers, proved concept, grew into catering gigs
- 2017 - Opened a food truck
- 2018 - Moved into a small takeout location
- 2019 - Moved into a 40-seat restaurant, exactly what she imagined in her Gainstorm session :)
Additional Gainstorm Sessions booked:
- 2018: Successful Move Gainstorm booked to create a vision and plan for move from small takeout location to 40-seat restaurant