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Human-Centered Rapid Growth
Explode your organization’s global impact from the inside out
Use our 360-180º Development Strategy to complete a wholistic assessment of your organization’s needs and cause a complete turnaround in the most profitable areas.
Human Experience (HX) Research for Maximum Profitability
CULTIVATE YOUR TRIBE. Design intuitive digital and/or tactile experiences to gain deep, data-focused insights about your current impact and future possibilities.
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When we buy an appliance, device or other complex product, it comes with a user guide to let us know how to get the most out of it and how best to preserve it. But when new humans come into our lives, they don’t normally come with a guide on how best to support them or to get the most out of the relationship.
A meaningful understanding of the humans you work with is the critical first step in building the foundation for a thriving team. Our Human Guide System provides you with the in-depth knowledge you need on your team members to support your efforts to maximize their morale, commitment and performance on the job. A Human Guide System will maximize cohesion, collaboration and success across the organization.
The core of our Human Guide System is a series of quizzes cultivating trust between your team members and their leaders by getting to the heart of what they need and desire; and how they best work.
The data from this research is then provided in a data visualization with summaries helping you to make quick judgements on how best to navigate challenges with each individual team member, as well as the collective group. This data will also give you deep insights to help you understand how to best support each team member’s career trajectory in a way that maximizes their morale, dedication and productivity in your organization.
This understanding permeates all of our corporate services, the foundation of our philosophy being that thriving humans = thriving institutions and thriving institutions = a thriving world.
To take advantage of the Human Guide System (HGS), book an Initial Assessment. The Initial Assessment will provide a Strategic Roadmap which will guide the development of the HGS.
External Human Experience Research services based in this same framework include the following
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- Market Research with Human Guides. Custom research design to help you understand the needs and priorities of your customer base / community
- Beta Testing Design & Implementation of User Interface testing, functionality testing, Data summarization
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These can also be kicked off with an Initial Assessment.
Here’s how the Initial Assessment works:
- We perform an inquiry with your organizational leadership, team leadership and/or staff to help us understand your current state
- We meet with you to gain more insight and to understand your goals
- We provide you with a Strategic Outline to help you know what to focus on going forward
360-180º Development Strategy
Eliminate Waste While Maximizing Profit
“Cut the fat, keep the Meat.”
Step 1. Assess.
What are your most profitable solutions? What are the things that you offer as an organization (or public figure) that cause you to effortlessly solve the most expensive problems faced by institutions, organizations, localities? How can you position yourself as a critical thought leader and solution provider in the environment that needs you the most?
This is also an opportunity to assess, “who’s in the room?”. “Who’s in your corner?” What are they offering? What problems are they solving for you, and how can they be supercharged to produce more profitable outcomes?
*It’s important to note here that we only speak of profit in terms of the 3 Ps: People & Planet Prosperity. Any form of growth that doesn’t take into account the full three is dangerous to our existence as humans. Learn more about our philosophy on the Ubuntu-Agile page here.
Step 2. Measure.
Answer the questions in Step 1 utilizing the visual technology of mathematical data that all of your team and key stakeholders can understand. Invite them into the measurement process. Make the language of data common amongst your key players and those who aspire to be so.
Step 3. Target.
Based on the data, target solutions to address the most critical needs of your organization. This is where retreats, trainings and systems design come in. We’ll strategize with you on short-term vs. long term solutions to deliver the most rapid, impactful and profitable changes.
Enter a Transformative Partnership
Our team is here to guide you through this process. Through the Initial Assessment, we will work with you to understand what’s needed and build a tailored plan to maximize your impact, joy and profit as an organization.
Most teams benefit from a combination of the following:
- Internal Human Experience Research (to assess the needs of your staff/organization),
- Team Retreats (designed to address the needs arising from the HX research)
- Ongoing trainings (to equip staff with the skills and tools to make the needed internal changes uncovered in 1 and 2) and
- Consultation to ensure the most fluid, most effective integration of the needed changes into a thriving organizational culture
Reatreats
Retreat-based Development
If you haven’t had a successful team retreat in the last six months, you must prioritize this in order to maximize your success through the end of this year.
Here’s what Brooklyn Arts Council had to say about the retreat we hosted for them
Truly, we could not be happier with how it went.”
Brooklyn Arts Council
The best way to get started is to book an Initial Assessment. Share this survey with your team (or we can create a custom survey for your organization, just let us know in the form above). The data from these surveys will inform your Initial Assessment and subsequent steps.
Here’s how the Initial Assessment works:
- We perform an inquiry with your organizational leadership, team leadership and/or staff to help us understand your current state
- We meet with you to gain more insight and to understand your goals
- We provide you with a Strategic Outline to help you know what to focus on going forward
Strategic Storytelling
Strategic Storytelling
MAGNETIZE YOUR PEOPLE. Package your story in such a way that your impact, value and trajectory of influence is clear and magnetic. This may include:
- Research about your organization, community and impact
- Interviews with key leaders & voices within your organization
- Interviews with happily impacted customers / constituents
- Surveys of impacted customers / constituents
- Documenting your story in a narrative asset demonstrating your relevance to the times, your impact and your trajectory in line with timely national and global issues. See Narrative Asset examples.
- Content delivery to your magnet audience
Strategic Storytelling
Team-Building & Retreats
CULTIVATE A THRIVING TEAM. Help your teammates thrive in doing what they do best. Maximize your success as a harmonious, efficient, profitable organization by deepening team commitment and strengthening collaboration. This includes:
- Custom Retreats. Design and facilitation of custom retreat experience for maximizing and deepening authentic connection & efficiency across your team(s)
- Workshops & Trainings. Assess professional development needs of your teammates and design custom learning experiences for maximum skills development.
- Human Guide System
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- Design and administration of customized surveys for insights into the needs, priorities and strengths of your staff and/or customer community
- Data, summarization and visualization. Facilitation of data review with team
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- Social experiences. Design and facilitation of social experiences to cultivate authentic connection across team(s)/organization.
CULTIVATE A THRIVING FOUNDER. 360° Founder Support for Mental Health and fulfillment optimization, including:
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- Personal Cultivation. Excavate, examine and address the key personal needs and challenges that you’re facing as a founder, creative and/or thought leader. Creative solutions will be developed collaboratively. We’ll apply accountability systems that match your needs and personality to ensure that you continually exceed your goals.
- Professional Cultivation. Sharpening your personal brand and refining your narrative in order to magnetize towards you the most premium opportunities serving your personal mission. We will document your human story, impact, Theory of Change; and target ideal partners to engage you in the most fruitful paid opportunities.
- Cultivating Thriving Partnerships. We will support you in negotiating healthy collaborations and business partnerships by centering your values, needs, vision and priorities. This includes the provision of templates for essential pre-partnership exercises; facilitation of partnership terms negotiation, Agreement templates for business partners, board members, contributors, employees and investors.
MAKE WORK FLUID. Organize your existing work into a project management framework that respects your revenue model; and a Project Management workflow to track ongoing work. This includes documentation of existing backlog; backlog integration; and Ongoing Project Management Support.