Respecting Mission, Understanding Business, and Defining Innovation for Your Culture and Goals
Workshops
Innovation Skill-Building
A New Take on Traditional Employee Development.
Learn How to Define and Activate Innovation as a Cultural Value and Practice.
Innovation is not about tech. It’s a set of processes, mindsets and tools that encourage teams to find fresh solutions to persistent challenges and emerging opportunities.
Innovation skills can help teams navigate volatility, fight burnout and develop tomorrow’s successes.
Example Workshop elements:
- Creative, interactive activities
- Dialogue on perceptions of innovation
- Team definition of innovation
- Helpful innovation mindsets
- Specific skills to innovate day-to-day
- Processes and tools
- Systemic limits on innovation
- Practical resources
Imagining Futures
Anticipating and Implementing Change is Hard Work. Imagining the Future Can Help.
There is no silver bullet for change.
But sometimes a neutral moderator can help your organization consider challenging questions and imagine fresh answers to potential futures you face.
We leverage human-centered and innovation-based approaches to help boards and teams consider and determine next steps. Topics may include:
- Digital and AI
- Change to operating model
- Political or social conflicts
Example Futures Workshop elements:
- ‘What if’ brainstorming
- Considering change tolerance
- Best/worst scenario mapping
- Backward design activities
Reclaiming Innovation as Culture and Mission
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
Not Your Typical Strat Plan.
Put the Team Into the Plan.
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 strategic plan into their day-to-day and out of the filing cabinet.
Conversation Can Be Hard.
Facilitation can help.
Even high-functioning teams have moments when productive dialogue is difficult and alignment unlikely.
We use innovation and culture-based methods to steer conversations toward effective outcomes in 1:1, small or large group settings.
Listen to Thrive.
What you don’t know can help or hurt you.
Human-centered listening projects with employees, boards, communities or donors can uncover needs and opportunities.
Or even spark new programs or services consistent with mission and objectives.
Being a Leader is Hard.
An experienced, objective partner can help.
We offer a support system to help think through and dive into pressing issues and opportunities. From visioning to gathering resources, best practices and new ideas, we aim to help you be the leader you want to be in 1:1 and leadership settings.
People and Process Go Hand-in-Hand.
Process influences culture every day.
Teams do work in many ways. Formal or informal, process has a larger impact on the vibe and impact of culture than leaders imagine. From network mapping to RACI-style work, we help you make process work for people.
Not About AI.
Need new ideas? Want to define culture?
Innovation mindsets and proactive investigation of culture can boost team confidence and capability to generate and deliver ideas.
Collaborative formats offer team-building and employee engagement.