STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Strategic Initiatives
Transformation Services and Experiences
Services and Experiences to Empower Leaders to Transform
We seek to engage leaders in additional services and experiences that will empower them to become the new breed of transformative leader described throughout Transforming for Turbulent Times. Equally important, we want to help with the mobilization and talent development of community members who participate in the transformation of the institution.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is to actively engage leaders and their teams and coalitions in mentoring and coaching that will enable them to optimize the use of our resources and tools. We seek to teach leaders to fish, not do the fishing for them. Our initial focal point is on Getting Started by considering the need to become a new breed of educational enterprise and how to organize for a transformative campaign to do so.
We offer services and experiences to get the ball rolling utilizing Webinars and facilitated Zoom conversations with campus leadership teams. We also offer Coaching and Mentoring sessions with leadership teams, Guiding Coalitions, and other groups throughout the course of the institution’s transformation journey.
Examples include:
Getting Started - Why Transformation and Why a New Breed of Institution?
This Webinar/Conversation is for campus leadership teams who have reviewed our resources and want to have a probing conversation about why and how they need to transform.
In addition, we can tailor individual coaching and mentoring sessions or ongoing engagements throughout different stages of the transformation campaign. Using the Transformation at a Glance Model as an organizing framework, here are descriptions of what happens in each of the 8 steps and services and experiences Strategic Initiatives’ Transformation Team can offer.
DISRUPTIVE FORCES DEMAND A NEW BREED OF LEARNING ENTERPRISE
Learn about the disruptive forces transforming the world of work and learning by 2030 and beyond. Be informed by institutional best practices for the future and with this knowledge define your institution’s version of the new breed of learning enterprise.
Services and Experiences. Webinars and Conversations on:
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Getting Started - Why Transformation and Why a New Breed of Institution?
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Tailored Zoom Conversations on How to use our Resources and Services
HOW TO PLAN A LONG-TERM
TRANSFORMATION CAMPAIGN
Understand how to mount a relentless, long-term campaign that will enable your institution to meet the needs of its learners in the radically different world of 2030 and beyond.
Services and Experiences - Our team can orient your institution to our methodology for leading, navigating and orchestrating transformation, describe best practice elements of a long-term campaign, and provide initial guidance on its execution. Our Services Team can customize this information for your institution and help it constructively process and act on it. Webinar/Zoom Conversations:
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How to Plan for and Launch a serious, long-term Transformational Campaign
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Organizational Capacities That Will Need to Be Built
LAUNCH THE CAMPAIGN
Acquire the knowledge to confidently start your institution’s journey toward transformation – how to be bold, lead differently, and position the transformation effort with your institution. Find out how to engage your Board and communicate continuously with all constituencies.
Services and Experiences - In addition to discussing the characteristics of transformative leaders outlined in our book and associated materials, our team can mentor presidents and other senior leaders on the characteristics of successful transformative leaders. It can also help them strengthen their capacities in these areas or identify members of their teams who can support them in areas where they fall short. Webinars/Zoom Conversations:
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Characteristics of the Transformative Leader
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Building Talent and Leadership across the Institution
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Developing Foresight, Strategic Thinking, Analytics
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Helping Planning Professions Become Indispensable to the Transformation
DEVELOP A SENSE OF URGENCY
Find out how to establish a Guiding Coalition to lead the transformation and a core team of strategic thinkers to help you make an urgent and compelling case for transformation. Learn how to utilize the proven technique of “radical incrementalism,” which combines radical aspirations, significant incremental initiatives, and continuous strategic adjustments to respond to changing conditions.
Services and Experiences - Our team can facilitate the orientation and development of a Guiding Coalition as it begins its work. For those institutions needing assistance beyond our book and the materials in our repository, we can provide support for developing the case for transformation and understanding and applying “radical incrementalism” and related concepts. Webinars/Zoom Conversations:
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Shaping a Sense of Urgency, Deploying Radical Incrementalism
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Engaging the Guiding Coalition in Developmental Conversations
SHAPE A BOLD VISION
Learn how to reach out to a 2030 vision horizon and beyond, then “plan from the future backward,” returning to the present to define a bold vision for that future. Understand how such visions help the Guiding Coalition craft strategies that position your institution to thrive in the world of 2030 and beyond.
Services and Experiences - Our team can facilitate a Guiding Coalition through an “Planning from the Future Backward” exercise and the crafting of a bold vision for 2030 and beyond and key initiatives for achieving it. Possible Webinars/Zoom Conversations:
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How to Make “Planning From the Future Backward” Work?
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Cross-Cutting Analysis of Bold Visions from Case Studies
CRAFT EXPEDITIONARY STRATEGIES
Understand how to promote and support divergent thinking that creates innovative ideas. Develop the capacity to converge these ideas into opportunities and then shape strategies that will create real value for your learners. These strategies are “expeditionary,” capable of being continuously adapted in response to changing conditions. The Guiding Coalition and coalitions assigned to implement specific initiatives then use “expedition maps” to execute and orchestrate these expeditions.
Services and Experiences - Our team can work with ad hoc coalitions to craft expeditionary strategies, using a variety of design thinking tools, and to construct expedition maps to drive their execution. Possible Webinars/Zoom Conversations:
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How Do you Deploy Design-Thinking-Based Strategy Crafting, Expedition Maps, and Measurement?
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How Do Expeditionary Strategies Pivot Over Time?
REINVENT BUSINESS MODELS
Develop the capacity to reinvent business models to build new value propositions and revenues. Learn how to scale operations wherever possible. Understand how to use the Business Model Canvas to assess and compare existing business models and value propositions with proposed new/reinvented programs and to reduce complexity in existing program portfolios and eliminate unnecessary learning requirements.
Services and Experiences - Our team can coach and teach those individuals and groups tasked with business model reinvention how to use the Business Model Canvas to support their efforts. Webinars/Zoom Conversations could include:
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Using the Business Model Canvas to Develop Breakthrough Products, simplify Program Portfolio, Improve Value Propositions
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Developing Staff Capacity to create Breakthrough Programs, experiences, and Value Propositions
ORCHESTRATE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE
Understand how to relentlessly execute expeditionary strategies including the mobilization a highly inclusive “volunteer army” to implement them. Plan for and achieve “quick wins” along the way. Support the expeditions by building your institution’s capacity and transforming its culture. Develop analytics to measure progress toward transformative outcomes. Reinvent business models to achieve transformative outcomes. Orchestrate all of these efforts continuously during the transformation campaign.
Services and Experiences – Orchestrating the Transformation is where most institutional processes fail to deliver success. Our team can orient leadership teams to the orchestration concept and how to practice it and follow up. Possible Webinars/Zoom Conversations:
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Orientation on Orchestrating Transformation, Periodic Follow ups
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Measuring Transformative Outcomes: Analysis of Top Performers
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Using Expedition Maps and Engagement Action Plans to Orchestrate Transformation
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Developing a Transformation Case Study to Communicate Your Institution’s Journey
