Collaborative Roadmaps

Have you ever struggled with the clarity of process and procedures that enable you and your team/organization to make good collaborative decisions, to save time, and ensure that you are making the impact you are intending to make? Complex change with diverse stakeholders is always challenging, especially when you are trying to bring about that change collaboratively.

Collaborative Roadmaps are a robust tool that once you turn it into a visual representation, shows a clear and efficient path forward that identifies your steps as a team.

c. theodor forde-stieglerJanuary 12, 2020Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

into 2o2o

As we head into the new year, we want to share with our accomplishments and joys of 2019 and our hopes and aspirations for 2020. Here are some of the highlights:

Simple-Best Evaluation for Collaborative Events

Have you ever?… struggled to get constructive, solid feedback on your event, but it seemed like too much effort, you weren’t sure how to leverage the data and it was a pain to get responses back because participants complained that your survey took too long? Leverage and customize a simple targeted evaluation tool to get meaningful data to improve your events and engagements:

c. theodor forde-stieglerDecember 26, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

The 6 Silent Killers of Organizations

The 6 Silent Killers of Organizations: “Everybody knows they exist, [they are] known but not discussable.”
Michael Beer, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School

c. theodor forde-stieglerDecember 16, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

Leverage Simon Sinek's Golden Circle for Your Change Practice

Have you ever been overwhelmed by your change efforts getting lost in the HOW and WHAT of agenda design, facilitated activities, technological hurdles, and logistics challenges? Have you ever gotten lost in the details of HOW you might tackle WHATever challenge you were working on - that you forgot WHY your team was looking at this issue to begin with?

Leverage the grounding of Simon Sinek's 'Golden Circle' and the ‘WHY’ to align and focus your change engagements. The following is from one of our 30 min. TOOLS4change webinars …

c. theodor forde-stieglerDecember 7, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

Diplomacy?

— thoughts on calibrating the professional persona: Diplomacy or Dishonesty?

Being a manager in today’s complex economy; how honest, how “real” can a one afford to be while maintaining authority and bolstering subordinates’ trust in the manager’s decision making? How might size and complexity of an organization, number of employees, and other factors affect the amount of stark honesty a manager would want to employ or could get away with? What considerations influence these decisions? How about professors and administrators in academic settings? Can you be more genuine in academia?

c. theodor forde-stieglerDecember 2, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

The Wheel of Change

— a metaphor for making meaningful change matter

The following is one metaphor for change-facilitation. It is based on the Change Formula: DVFS>R.

Although our western perspective of chronological thinking would suggest otherwise, transformative Change IS NOT simply a linear progression along a timeline or schedule, rather – it is much more like a repetitive cycle. “Change happens.” The question is how we harness its force.

c. theodor forde-stieglerNovember 29, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

Visualization - Making Concepts and Ideas Tangible

Have you ever…

… struggled to share a concept necessary to address the complex challenges you’re facing? Are change processes hard to explain?

When people are co-creating, visual materials make it easier to ‘get’ a concept or innovative idea. Create engaging visuals for models and frameworks that describe your structures and processes to help your stakeholders ‘get the picture.’

c. theodor forde-stieglerNovember 28, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

Design Teams - Innovation through Diversity

Leverage the voices of your stakeholders – past/future participants, community members, partners, suppliers, administrators, ... and facilitators. Design teams represent the voices of the stakeholders that you need to engage – allowing you to innovate the right design based on the representation of the diversity that will be in the room.

c. theodor forde-stieglerNovember 15, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment

. . . thoughts on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

. . . sometimes, I just have to get back to basics:

To realizing that my assumptions are just that – my assumptions. Honed by my history and experiences, my trauma. Realizing that my normal is just as normal as anyone else’s – but different.

And to forgiveness. Those east german socialist leaders were just trying to figure things out based on their connotations and perceptions of reality.

And to gratitude. For fall, and for the Fall of the Berlin Wall, for heat and tiled stoves, my dad, my mom, and this 30-year anniversary of a day that changed so many lives forever!

c. theodor forde-stieglerNovember 9, 2019Collaborative Change, Change Management, NEXUS4change, Tools4change, Steve Cady, OD&CComment