Maintaining focus and motivation within many health and human service-sector roles can be difficult. Clients continue to show up with issues that demand care and attention often without the means for practitioners to follow-up afterwards. It can be demoralizing. It can also be a source of frustration and low performance (as well as a means […]
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Strategic planning describes a lot of what we do, yet we don’t use the term strategic planning to describe our approach. Instead, our focus is on strategic thinking. Here’s why you might want to do the same. Strategic planning is used as a structured way to transform goals into action plans and frame decisions. That’s
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Seeing into the future is fraught with creative issues. While we might know about a future opportunity or situation, what might it feel like? What would it look like if we could ‘try on’ a decision before we bought it? We can. The idea of Identity Dress-Up is a simple visualization exercise that brings together
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If you wish to create something new or transform something, you’ll need to design. You must design well if you want that change to achieve something meaningful. What does that mean for designing in the present? What methods and approaches are fit-for-purpose when designing for living systems in the present? The mid 2010s and early
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We’ve used the 5 Why’s as a powerful, simple vehicle for fostering conversations about why we do things. Often, particularly with well-established programs and services, we lose the connection between the rationale behind why something was done and what value it brings. A technique called the 5 Why’s could help us get closer to this
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