Strategic Planning: Achieving Breakthroughs & Commitment through Co-creation

Conventional strategic planning can cause disconnects between the people making decisions and the employees who have to implement them, which can cause issues around motivation, implementation, or even missed opportunities

Organizational Journey Map part 2: After Seeing the Gap Clearly, How Do You Design an Action Path with “Soul”?
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Organizational Journey Map part 2: After Seeing the Gap Clearly, How Do You Design an Action Path with “Soul”?

ToP Tools: Breaking Through the Tough Spots • Series 06 — Part 2 By Huiying You Many fa ...

The Organizational Journey Map: How to Turn “Mental Differences” Across Eight Dimensions into a Shared Rhythm for Moving Forward
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The Organizational Journey Map: How to Turn “Mental Differences” Across Eight Dimensions into a Shared Rhythm for Moving Forward

ToP Tool Breakthrough Series 06 — Part I When we discuss organizational transformation ...

From Co-Design to Systems Change: How ToP Methods Helped CTN Achieve Platinum-Level Impact
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From Co-Design to Systems Change: How ToP Methods Helped CTN Achieve Platinum-Level Impact

In January 2025, I registered for ICA’s Advanced Facilitator Program (AFP) with the aim of becoming ...

Why continuous improvement programs fade, and how facilitation keeps them alive
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Why continuous improvement programs fade, and how facilitation keeps them alive

Most continuous improvement programs don't fail. They fade. The launch goes well, the first workshops fil ...

Leadership training that changes how teams decide, not just how leaders talk
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Leadership training that changes how teams decide, not just how leaders talk

Sit through most leadership training and you'll notice what it's actually about: the leader. Executive pr ...

The Consensus Workshop Method: how groups build decisions everyone will carry
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The Consensus Workshop Method: how groups build decisions everyone will carry

Every experienced leader knows the counterfeit version of consensus. The room runs out of energy, someone ...

Transformational strategy: when incremental planning isn’t enough
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Transformational strategy: when incremental planning isn’t enough

Some organizations reach a moment their annual planning cycle can't handle. A restructure, a merger, a ma ...

The Organizational Dynamics Screen: A God’s-Eye View for Seeing Through an Organization’s “Energy Blockages”
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The Organizational Dynamics Screen: A God’s-Eye View for Seeing Through an Organization’s “Energy Blockages”

ToP Tool Breakthrough Series 05 Before exploring the ToP Organizational Dynamics Screen, a pow ...

A Year of Learning Comes Full Circle: Reflecting on Ways to Reconcile
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A Year of Learning Comes Full Circle: Reflecting on Ways to Reconcile

To Celebrate June National Indigenous History Month Over the past year, Ways to Reconcile has ...