Innovation and Collaboration Consulting
S.O.A.R. to New Heights through Strategic Planning
"Success comes from having strategy become everyone’s job.”
- Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton,
"The Strategy-Focused Organization"
Organizations thrive today through planning processes that engage workers at all levels in the business of owning and implementing strategy.
- Would you like to develop a plan that does more than collect dust on a shelf?
- Do you realize a “plan” is only half of the process, and the other equally important 50% is the revitalization of people?
- Are you ready to re-energize your organization and stimulate ownership of initiatives and the energy to see them through?
Appreciative planning processes are designed for knowledge-based organizations of the 21st century. A shared focus on making the tangible and intangible resources of an organization explicit, catalyzes engagement and creativity. The framework of identifying strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and resources/results (SOAR) provides a springboard for planning and executing desired futures.
Innovation and Growth
“The intersection is where ideas from different fields, disciplines, and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary discoveries.”
- Frans Johansson,
"The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”
Are you ready to engage in conversations designed to build on the best of the past, cross-pollinate ideas in the present and foster discovery of "intersections of innovation" for the future?
The era (or perhaps well-worn myth) of the inspired, lone visionary who can take organizations to ever-escalating heights through his/her singular genius is ending! A more apt description for knowledge-based workplaces today is found in the Japanese proverb, “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
We see the power of “we” found in open-source innovation affecting countless sectors from the internet to the arts. Today, one of the most important roles of leadership is to find the means to unleash a diversity of ideas from the most people in a purposeful and productive way.
We create processes to illuminate “intersections of innovation” that are inherently collaborative, energizing and designed for small teams or entire organizations.
Customized Organizational Projects
We customize projects in areas of vital importance to our clients such as; patient safety, evolving leadership, partnerships and alliances, creating cultures of caring and healing, living into an organizational mission and more.
Often consulting projects begin with the Leadership Circle Culture Survey™, which identifies collective perceptions of “current” versus “desired” culture in areas that have been demonstrated to foster success across sectors. The results form a foundation for shifting from a problem-reactive focus to an outcomes-creative focus building on existing strengths and fueling engaged conversation, commitment, and action planning.
Contact us to schedule a free, 45-minute call to learn how we can help you or your organization.