Introducing the MESA Method: Creating the Ideal Work Experience
Unveiling the MESA Method, a revolutionary approach to crafting the perfect work experience. Discover how this innovative strategy can transform your workplace, fostering productivity, satisfaction, and overall success. A new era of work culture awaits.
“accelerated work experiences” or AWEs
Compresses productive activity in time or space to deliver a result much faster than would otherwise be possible
- Popular methods include Pomodoros, hackathons, design sprints, Scrum sprints and rapid prototyping sessions
- People are seeking a return to what was lost: concentrated, intensive, experiential work environments
The structure
The overall structure of the week is fairly straightforward, and similar to other sprint methodologies.
- Day 1 is a “download day” dedicated to getting all the relevant information out of everyone’s head and “out on the table.”
- On Day 2, the carefully worded “mission” is unveiled, drawing on the discoveries from the day before to frame the problem owner’s problem as an inspiring, yet feasible challenge. The second half of the day is spent generating a small set of ideas to prototype.
- Day 3 is for prototyping, which includes small groups writing copy, making mockups or landing pages, building demos, or producing short videos/presentations to demonstrate the viability of the ideas from the previous day. It is on Day 3, once people have to start making real tradeoffs in the making of the product, that the real constraints arise.
The experience
MESA seeks to reintroduce and translate some of these rituals to the world of work
- It is a reinvention of the rituals that once bound us together in a shared purpose, working toward a common cause, but adapted to the modern context
- The experience begins with the venue
- Entering the venue as a group and seeing the meticulously laid out table gives you a sense of the gravity and importance of the mission you are about to undertake
The MESA Method
A 5-day intensive work sprint delivered on behalf of a client, usually a large company or other organization.
- MESA Co. gathers 12-16 participants (which they have found to be just the right number) in beautiful, often exotic locations around the world, seeking to create the ideal environment to focus on and solve a complex problem.
The premise
The world is getting more complex, and there will be fewer and fewer proven solutions to problems.
- What we need is a method for creating solutions quickly, in response to changing conditions
- MESA is unique in that it is not primarily a service provided at arms’ length to a paying client. The MESA team works with the client, not for the client.
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