Our Guiding Principles:

  • Engagement of people enables innovation, adaptability, and commitment
  • Learning is at the base of organizational work
  • Lasting change engages people's hearts, minds, and ultimately behavior
  • Organizational work is by nature ambiguous, which is also the element that affords creativity, agility, and achieving unbelievable outcomes.

In many ways we work like a financial adviser, who pays attention to your short- and long-term goals, the changing market, and balanced use of investments. The parallel is that we do our work with you in the context of your and your organization's goals, the changing environment, and the best use of your resources – people and otherwise. Like a financial adviser, we rely upon multiple services and tailored approaches. Here's an overview.


Wise Words

"Things do not change; we change."

— Henry David Thoreau

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

— Denis Diderot

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Foundation Tools and Approaches

Tools
Description

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Golden Personality Type Profilor

How you naturally prefer to work/live; implications for work in groups. Well-researched and grounded in Jungian psychology. Four letters; 16 types

Emotional Intelligence

How to to identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups.

Firo-B

Understanding behavior in interpersonal settings; 50-year old instrument

Personality Styles
Merrill-Wilson

Four-quadrant description of how others see your behavior: amiable, analytical, driver, expressive

Leadership Practices Inventory
Kouzes and Posner

Five leadership practices based on research reported in The Leadership Challenge

Situational Leadership
Hersey and Blanchard

Manager behavior guided by the "maturity" of the individual or group



Approaches


Description

Appreciative Inquiry
David Cooperrider et al

Organizations are dynamic not mechanistic nor problems to be solved

Baldrige Quality Award Framework

Map of an organization as a system of horizontal processes

Future Search
Weisbord & Janoff

Multiple stakeholders working together to craft an organization's preferred future(s)

Human Systems Dynamics
Glenda Eoyang et al

Hard sciences applied to organizations, e.g., the dynamics of self-organization

Open Space
Harrison Owen

People convening to explore a question they care about; on-the-spot agenda design and self-organized "work"

Polarity Management
Barry Johnson
Margaret Seidler

Balancing both/and; not resorting to either/or thinking, such as, centralized - decentralized structure

Systems Thinking
Peter Senge et al

Using a systems lens to see the interdependencies in an organization

Transitions
William Bridges

Psychological transition that accompanies change

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