AhaPlay is a technology for running live group workshops without a facilitator, built on patented group interaction mechanics.
Teams create most of the value. Individuals get the development.
Even stars depend on their team.
Top analysts who switch firms alone lose their edge for years. Those who move with their team don’t. Groysberg, Lee and Nanda, Harvard Business School.
01The cost
What’s at stake.
- 80%of employees’ time now goes on collaboration: meetings, calls and email.Cross, Rebele and Grant, Harvard Business Review, 2016
- 75%of cross-functional teams miss at least three of their goals.Tabrizi, Harvard Business Review, 2015
- $250Ma year in managers’ time lost to ineffective decisions at a typical Fortune 500 company.McKinsey survey of 1,200+ managers
The pattern we keep seeing.
- Develop the people$356 billion a year on training worldwide. Beer, Finnström and Schrader, HBR, 2016
- Develop the leaderFor the most part, leadership training doesn’t lead to better organizational performance. Beer et al., HBR, 2016
- Expect a great teamA third of training is still applied a year later (Saks and Belcourt, 2006). A team’s results aren’t predicted by its members’ intelligence (Woolley et al., Science, 2010).
What we keep seeing: the next budget goes back to individuals.
A team isn’t the sum of its people.
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Invest again? Or break the loop?
02The solution
The software runs the workshop. The team does the work.
Teams meet in person or online. Everyone joins from their own device.
AhaPlay guides them through structured individual and group activities. Participants share their perspectives, discuss differences, align on decisions, and commit to them.
No trainer. No facilitator. Just people working together, guided by technology.
It's tough.
But it works.
Because everyone actually has to do the work.
What participants have to do
- Think.Form their own opinions.
- Contribute.Bring their ideas into the group.
- Align.Work through differences and back one decision.
- Commit.Decide what to do next, together.
What they can't get away with
- Spectating.Everyone has to answer.
- Multitasking.The group is waiting on them.
- Nodding.Understanding each other and finding common ground takes real work.
- Forgetting.They commit on the record.
Because real teamwork takes more than showing up.
More than group discussion. Group alignment and commitment built into the technology.
Powered by patented group interaction mechanics.
Most interactive tools collect answers. AhaPlay can go further by making group alignment part of how the workshop progresses.
Depending on the activity, the technology can require people to respond individually, match their answers, or explicitly accept a shared decision before the group moves forward.
When the group isn't aligned, it can be required to reconsider.
Pick one, as a team
The group cannot proceed yet. Chris chose a different answer, so the team talks it through.
ContinueThe technology doesn't decide for the group. It makes the group work through its differences.
One workshop. Hundreds of teams.
Run the same structured experience across teams, locations, and organizations without needing a facilitator for every group.
Set up a structured workshop, invite the teams, and let each team work through it on its own.
Each team brings its own perspectives, works through its own differences, and reaches its own decisions and commitments.
The structure scales. The decisions belong to the people.
Why does it work?
Because listening isn't the same as understanding. Discussing isn't the same as aligning. And aligning isn't the same as committing.
AhaPlay connects these steps in one structured group experience.
It turns passive attendance into active participation, conversations into shared decisions, and decisions into explicit commitments.
03What changes
The same costs, answered by the team.
- 80% of the time goes on collaborationTime that ends in shared decisions and commitments.
- 75% of cross-functional teams miss their goalsTeams that align on the goal, and commit, before the work starts.
- $250M lost to ineffective decisionsDecisions the whole team works through, then backs on the record.
04Execution
Team development meets execution.
A workshop builds a better team. Linked to a priority, it builds execution. That’s where teams start to take off.
- Team developmentAhaPlay: how the team works together.
- A priorityWhat the team has to deliver.
- ExecutionEvery team ready, and committed, to deliver it.
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Built on AhaPlay's patented technology, ExecuteOS helps organizations find what could stop their teams from executing a priority, then runs the workshops that close the gaps.
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