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SUMMARY:Strategic Conversations Bootcamp
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nStrategic Conversations Bootcamp Event Schedule\n\n    SESSION 1 SESSION 2 TUESDAYApril 30\, 2024  THURSDAYMay 2\, 2024 12:00pm-2:30pm ET 9:00am-11:30am PT  12:00pm-2:30pm ET 9:00am-11:30am PT  \n\nPlease 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. \nFoster Whole System Strategic Thinking\, Planning\, and Leading\nA 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. \nDeveloping 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. \nStrategic 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. \nLearning Outcomes\nThis 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: \n\nRespond effectively to continuous change\, complexity\, and ambiguity.\nInspire productivity\, engagement\, and organizational effectiveness.\nReduce costs\, misalignment\, and conflicts.\nEnhance customer service.\nInnovate in the face of challenges.\nMake a positive contribution to the triple bottom line.\n\nAfter completing this bootcamp\, you will have the tools to engage teams from a whole system perspective in conversations to: \n\nDevelop an organizational system as the system’s north star.\nAddress short- and long-term challenges\, systems\, and innovation.\nExplore strengths\, dynamic capabilities\, and opportunities.\nDevelop or re-evaluate organization’s values\, vision\, and mission statements.\nSet goals\, objectives\, strategies\, and action plans.\nClarify roles\, relationships\, and expectations.\nTrack progress through regular cycles of action learning.\n\nCourse Modules\nClick the session titles below to learn more about each session’s overview and learning outcomes.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”2px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_accordion section_title_tag=”h5″ color=”peacoc” active_section=”0″ no_fill=”true” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Module 1: STRATEGIC THINKING AND MINDSET” tab_id=”1697124763627-ac88f6bb-3b97″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]PURPOSE: Reassess the nature of what it means to be an organization\, explore the impact of adopting a living systems mindset\, and what that means when it comes to the nature of business conversation. \nOBJECTIVES: \n\nRethink the nature of organizations\, see them as a living system\, nourished by hubs of conversation and action.\nAdopt a living systems mindset and an Appreciative Inquiry conversational framework.\nRecognize 3 key factors for supporting strategic conversations and organizational flourishing.\nPractice framing and asking generative questions for strategic conversations that align with a living systems mindset.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Module 2: SOAR CONVERSATIONS” tab_id=”1697124763627-331ef788-76a1″][vc_column_text]PURPOSE: Learn to use the SOAR Framework to foster strategic conversations at all levels of an organization. \n OBJECTIVES: \n\nAdopt a SOAR Framework for strategic thinking and planning.\nExperience SOAR as a positive approach for strategic conversations.\nPractice positive framing and generative questions using SOAR at various levels in the organization.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Module 3: THE AI 5-D CYCLE” tab_id=”1697125274349-a53924e8-62ff”][vc_column_text]PURPOSE: Understand the importance of whole systems engagement and explore strategic conversations at scale using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) 5-D Cycle to engage all stakeholders in strategic planning or whole system change. \n OBJECTIVES: \n\nUnderstand the need for whole systems engagement.\nUnderstand the AI 5-D Cycle.\nPractice framing an affirmative topic and creating an appreciative inquiry.\nIdentify opportunities to engage whole systems in strategic conversations.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Module 4: WHOLE SYSTEMS ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES” tab_id=”1697125396094-5b016fa7-057e”][vc_column_text]PURPOSE: Understand key factors for successful whole systems engagement and learn the basics around three popular processes for engaging large groups or whole systems in conversation. \n OBJECTIVES: \n\nRecognize key factors to successful whole systems engagement.\nUnderstand Design Thinking\, World Café\, and Open Space Technology.\nExplore when\, where\, and how you might use these processes.\nIdentify other resources and processes for whole systems engagement.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nMethod of Delivery for the Strategic Conversations Bootcamp\nThese live events will be delivered and recorded using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using any device: computer\, tablet\, or mobile. Please participate using the dial-in method you feel most comfortable with. You will receive the meeting login information from your trainers in two separate emails. First email will be sent two weeks prior to the event; the second to be sent the day before the bootcamp. \nAffiliate Program Offered in Partnership with:\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We invite you to learn more about the Conversation Bootcamp also offered in partnership with Conversations Worth Having.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centerforappreciativeinquiry.net/event/strategic-conversations-bootcamp-april-2024/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Conversations Worth Having (CWH)
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