Respecting Mission, Understanding Business, and Defining Innovation for Your Culture and Goals
Workshops
Innovation Skill-Building
Learn How to Define and Activate Innovation for Mission and Resilience
Innovation is a set of processes, mindsets and tools that encourage teams to find fresh solutions to persistent challenges and emerging opportunities. These skills can help teams navigate volatility and preserve motivation.
Workshops include:
- Creative, interactive activities
- Dialogue on perceptions of innovation
- Modules on mindset, process and tools
- Introduction to useful frameworks
- Dive into topics like culture, policy and AI
- Practical resources
Facilitated meetings
Meaningful Dialogue Can Be Difficult Within Teams and Between Stakeholders
Sometimes a neutral moderator can help your organization consider challenging questions and imagine fresh answers.
We leverage human-centered and innovation-based approaches to craft discussions and activities that help boards, trustees, leadership teams, employees and community members to share and evaluate perspectives and then move toward decisions and action.
- Board and team meeting facilitation
- Staff retreats
- Guided brainstorming
- Community dialogue
Reclaiming Innovation for Mission Purposes
Beyond Big Tech, AI and Performative Change
People often think that being innovative is a personality trait held by a few creative geniuses or billion-dollar Silicon Valley companies.
In fact, innovation is a big tent of mindsets, processes and tools. When defined to the context of each organization, innovation skills can help any team to:
- navigate volatility,
- generate fresh solutions to persistent challenges,
- maximize opportunities, and
- strengthen culture.
Services
Beyond PowerPoint
Does your plan sit in a filing cabinet or in the cloud? Let’s curate a process designed to engage and inspire the team while drafting a vision and operating approach for the future. Built-in skill-building will help the team bring the strat plan into their day-to-day.
Listen to Build
Do you need new paths to revenue or relevance? Human-centered listening with locals, members, visitors or donors is a great way to begin developing new programs or services consistent with mission and objectives.
A Message for Mission
Narrative can be the difference between success and failure. It’s never a bad time to review, test, reaffirm or refresh the organizational stories you share with the world. Refined messaging and marketing can attract new funders, new audiences and employees.
Insights, Not Just Data
Data alone cannot help an organization make decisions. When information from multiple systems and sources collects over time, teams can become paralyzed without the right people or skills to make sense of it all. Let’s dig in and help you turn data into directional learnings to apply to operations.
Conversation Can Be Hard
Facilitation can help. Even high-functioning teams have moments when productive dialogue is difficult and alignment unlikely. Innovation-informed methods offer a neutral moderation approach to steer conversations toward effective outcomes in 1:1, small or large group settings.
Way More than Digital
Need new ideas? Or have ideas but need to activate? Innovation mindsets, processes and tools can boost team confidence and capability to generate, prioritize and implement ideas. Plus collaborative, classroom-style format sneaks in team-building and employee engagement at the same time.