Organizational Assessment
and Design: Generative Systems and Practices

Assessment:

Many times, leaders think that there is a specific issue or direction they need to take action on so engage consultants to help. If we take the time to substantiate the depth and breadth of an issue, we often find that the way to approach and resolve the issue may be different than we originally thought. For that reason, we like to begin design projects with ‘Defining Assessment’ processes, chosen from those below:
 

Assessments:

• Barrett’s Cultural Transformation Tools – Measuring the values alignment in a system.
• Management Drives – Predictors of Individual and Group Behaviors
• Values in Action Strengths Survey – look at individual character strengths
• Customized “Discovery” process to tap the thinking/ alignment/ direction of an organizational system.
• Collaborative Intelligence - Measuring a system’s capacity to support collaboration

 

Design Services:

• Co-design of organizational structures, systems, policies and procedures to elevate strengths, innovation, collaboration, resilience
• Co-design of roadmaps for implementing evolutionary solutions
• Collaboration and innovation: A new perspective on what collaboration asks of us and our organizations

   Models of innovation and collaboration:

  META—designing key collaborative capacities into systems

  Idea Supply Chains—rapid prototyping processes for keeping a flow of innovative solutions moving through an organization

  Collaborative leadership coaching: what is the role of leaders in collaborative systems? How do they increase their CQ—collaborative intelligence—and help others to do it as well.