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

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Framework of Support: How Do You Put the Right People in the Right Places—and Find Unexpected Allies?
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Framework of Support: How Do You Put the Right People in the Right Places—and Find Unexpected Allies?

ToP Tools: Breaking Through the Tough Spots — Series 07 By Huiying You At the beginning ...

Whose Voice Is Missing?
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Whose Voice Is Missing?

How facilitation can bring underrepresented voices into the decisions that affect them By Xin ...

The meeting facilitator role: chair it or bring one in?
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The meeting facilitator role: chair it or bring one in?

You have a meeting to run and a decision to make: chair it yourself or bring in a facilitator. The differ ...

Facilitation services: matching the process to the mandate
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Facilitation services: matching the process to the mandate

You have a mandate with a deadline: a new strategic plan, a legislated consultation, a multi-agency agree ...

What a facilitated strategic planning engagement actually looks like, week by week
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What a facilitated strategic planning engagement actually looks like, week by week

You have a mandate, a deadline and a steering committee, and no clear picture of what happens between kic ...

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 ...

What a board strategic planning facilitator does differently
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What a board strategic planning facilitator does differently

You are scoping a retreat for your board. The management-offsite playbook does not fit. Directors meet qu ...

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 ...