More about what we’ll work on practicing during our work together…
- Reflective practice
- Learning to ask: How did what happened compare with what I was expecting would happen? What can I learn from this, and how will I adjust as a result?
- Scientific Problem Solving
- Practice a reliable structured way to see problems, find the root causes, identify what “better” looks like, and then design experiments to test your ideas for getting better. Build in ways to make sure you are learning by reflecting on your experience: checking the results, learning from facts, adjusting accordingly.
- Continuous improvement
- Create plans (big, little, medium-sized) with clear expected outcomes, then try them out, study the results, learn from them, adjust, and finally, systematize by building your learnings & adjustments into your daily/weekly/monthly routines.
- Principles-based practice
- What does it mean to truly respect people & lead with humility, for example? With everything you’re focusing on, how do you ensure prioritizing the basics?
- Vision and mission refinement
- What is your team’s shared story of why your organization exists & which future you exist to create?
- Strategy development and testing
- In the coming year, how will your organization focus its improvement energy towards areas of transformation that most align with realizing your shared vision?
- Learning through small tests of change
- Introduce simple, stabilizing structures that provide you support you and your teams can count on, and meaningful metrics to ensure that you can learn from your experiments, no matter what the outcome.
- Collaborative facilitation
- Learn & practice ways to invite all voices into the room, into the process, and to be an effective collaborator yourself.
- Knowledge management
- Organize your organization’s valuable knowledge and establish systems to catch this knowledge and make it usable. Learn what you know.
- Productivity tools
- Hack your self-management. There is a lot of fun to be had here: From tools that support online facilitation or task management, to using mind maps for brainstorming or design, to developing flow charts to visualize your workflows, there is a lot of fun to be had here. A few favorites: Miro, Asana, XMind.