Strategic Conversations Bootcamp Event Schedule
SESSION 1 | SESSION 2 |
TUESDAY | THURSDAY |
12:00pm-2:30pm ET 9:00am-11:30am PT | 12:00pm-2:30pm ET 9:00am-11:30am PT |
Please note: ALL virtual sessions for the will be recorded and saved for participants who are unable to attend a scheduled webinar. Links to the recordings will be provided so that participants can view/listen to the recording at a time that works best for them.
Foster Whole System Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Leading
A lack of strategic thinking and planning in organizations is costly. The greatest expense is the investment of time and resources into activities that do not support company goals or the mission. In addition, employees show up, do their work, and go home. This results in missed opportunities. Without a context for their work, employees are not inspired to think or plan creatively about process improvement, innovation, or cost savings. And anyone who has tried knows, it can be a struggle to get teams to buy-in to strategic goals, much less think and work in alignment with those goals.
Developing your leadership ability for strategic thinking and planning, coupled with the communication skills to engage in effective strategic conversations significantly improves your value as a leader. The days of hiring an outside agency to create a strategic plan for your organization are over; so too should be strategic plans developed at the top and handed down for others to implement. Organizations poised for growth and success have leaders who are adopting strategic thinking as an on-going way of doing business and strategic planning that engages employees across the whole organization as well as external stakeholders. They engage everyone in developing agile plans, cycles of experimentation and learning, innovation, and measuring actions against relevant metrics.
Strategic Conversations Bootcamp will invite you to explore the ways a living systems mindset influences strategic thinking and action, teach you how to use the SOAR framework to support strategic conversations at all levels of an organizations, deepen your understanding of the value of scaling strategic conversation to include the whole system, and introduce you to four whole systems engagement processes: The AI 5D cycle, Design Thinking, World Cafe, and Open Space Technology.
Learning Outcomes
This training will encourage you to bring a living systems mindset to organizational design, strategy, and success. It will prepare you to engage teams in strategic conversations that can:
- Respond effectively to continuous change, complexity, and ambiguity.
- Inspire productivity, engagement, and organizational effectiveness.
- Reduce costs, misalignment, and conflicts.
- Enhance customer service.
- Innovate in the face of challenges.
- Make a positive contribution to the triple bottom line.
After completing this bootcamp, you will have the tools to engage teams from a whole system perspective in conversations to:
- Develop an organizational system as the system’s north star.
- Address short- and long-term challenges, systems, and innovation.
- Explore strengths, dynamic capabilities, and opportunities.
- Develop or re-evaluate organization’s values, vision, and mission statements.
- Set goals, objectives, strategies, and action plans.
- Clarify roles, relationships, and expectations.
- Track progress through regular cycles of action learning.
Course Modules
Click the session titles below to learn more about each session’s overview and learning outcomes.
Jackie Stavros’ passion is working with others to discover their strengths, identify opportunities and create a plan with meaningful results for positive change! She is internationally recognized for her creation of SOAR, a positive approach to strategic thinking, planning, and leading that focuses on strengths, opportunities, aspirations and results in strategic conversations. The heart of her work is using Appreciative Inquiry (AI), one of the most popular approaches to positive change – that is bringing out the best in people, their organizations, and communities to fuel conversations worth having that produce meaningful engagement and results. She has presented her research and work in over 25 countries.
Cheri Torres understands that relational dynamics inform any group or organization endeavor; therefore, she works with leaders and teams to co-create positive, strength-based relationships capable of achieving extraordinary outcomes. She emphasizes excellence and success as an evolving target that is best achieved through continuous appreciation and inquiry. Working with Cheri means learning to use a simple set of tools and practices that generate human connection, positive relational dynamics, broad-based inclusion, creativity, collaborative action, and collective impact.