{"id":5651,"date":"2025-10-30T05:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:27:46","slug":"tyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/tyre\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick the tyre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRalph, on paper we\u2019re agile. In practice, it\u2019s silo thinking. Everyone tends their own little garden. Real support? More wishful thinking than reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those words from a senior executive stuck with me. So, we ran an experiment.<\/p>\n<p>At the next town hall, we changed the format. Instead of the usual PowerPoint marathons, we introduced a <em>Kick the Tyre<\/em> slot. Two people each got twenty minutes: five to present their project, fifteen for participants to ask questions and dig in.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was a fear. Instead of <em>kicking the tyre<\/em>, the Q&amp;A could turn into a junkyard crusher, smashing projects to bits rather than building them up. Exactly the opposite of what we wanted to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>So, we set five ground rules up front:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strengthen, don\u2019t weaken. Every comment should help the idea move forward.<\/li>\n<li>Partners, not judges. We\u2019re co-creators, not critics.<\/li>\n<li>Respect first. No put-downs, only constructive questions and suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>1-to-2 principle. For every critical remark, add at least two constructive ideas.<\/li>\n<li>No ego shows. Contributions serve the project, not the spotlight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Getting two volunteers for the first session took some convincing. After that? Slots filled instantly. The format grew into a recurring <em>Kick the Tyre<\/em> event, held every few months.<\/p>\n<p>The impact? Cross-departmental support has taken off. Asking questions is losing its reputation as a sign of weakness. And more and more people believe what we already knew; many heads, especially the right ones, are smarter than just one.<\/p>\n<p>Warm regards,<br \/>\nRalph Hubacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRalph, on paper we\u2019re agile. In practice, it\u2019s silo thinking. Everyone tends their own little garden. Real support? More wishful thinking than reality.\u201d Those words from a senior executive stuck with me. So, we ran an experiment. At the next town hall, we changed the format. Instead of the usual PowerPoint marathons, we introduced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5652,"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions\/5652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandhub.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}