Supporting teams and each other - with Tesco 

Laughology has been lucky enough to deliver many different sessions for Tesco, with a wide variety of their people, on different topics.  

On this occasion, Laura Drury was invited to deliver our ever-popular FLIP it Thinking session with some regional and personnel managers in Notting Hill. Her task? To provide people with some tools and skills to become more adaptable, open-minded, and support each other and their teams as best as possible.  

FLIP is so practical and versatile that it fits the bill perfectly.  

Tesco’s core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, community, and planet a little better every day,’ and that can only be done if you remain calm throughout the change and build resilience. So, that’s exactly what Laura and the team focused on during the session.  

As many may be aware, FLIP-it Thinking is an extremely practical tool based on cognitive behavioural therapy. With a catchy title such as ‘FLIP-it’, it’s also a great mantra to ask yourself or others when stuck. ‘How can you FLIP this’?  

We started the session by exploring resilience and discussing the behaviours required to build it. Then, we looked at each area of the FLIP tool in more detail, including many fun activities and useful, practical takeaways.  

The group were fantastic; they embraced each activity and had incredibly fruitful conversations (particularly after we discussed the benefits of choosing healthy snacks…). 

For our ‘draw a house activity’, and in the absence of pens, two people used paper towels with surprisingly effective results! And our iconic squidgy person was donned with a paper towel cape to become the Laughology superhero!  

If you’d like to learn more about this session, consider how you could create a house with paper towels or maybe get your own squidgy person to dress up… why not contact Doug – doug@laughology.co.uk, and he can enlighten you?