Process
Today’s leaders are navigating fluid, dynamic circumstances. Everyday seems like a new set of divergent issues of conflict and confrontation, impacting internal perspectives and external perceptions. While we are tempted to focus on the finite game of short-term wins and solutions, truly sustaining an organization requires us to set the conditions for the long game. And, there is a tremendous opportunity out there to take for a future-ready organization.
Setting out on this road less traveled has a competitive advantage. Future-readiness demands a consistent, methodical investment in developing a learning organization ecosystem inside your organization. No shortcuts. No window dressing. No repeating old practices. Obsolete ideas yield obsolete results. It’s all about learning as much as possible to discover a new idea.
A learning organization is an entrepreneurial, action-oriented organization committed to continuous innovation by optimizing curiosity, creativity, and experimentation and transforming new ideas into an impactful future.
Varying your routes on this journey, Jacobsen & Company has developed a disciplined, yet versatile approach to equip organizations, learning and competing in the infinite game.
Cultivate a culture of curiosity
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Modeling a growth mindset, leaders must set the environmental conditions and expectations throughout the organization to develop a disciplined rhythm and flow of listening, questioning, investigating, and exploring to advance organizational vision and to deepen individual expertise. Autonomy, mastery, and purpose are essential components to inspire, motivate, and engage employees across departments to do amazing things and achieve better results for the organization.
Establish a systematic design methodology
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Consistently, organizations must conduct autopsies without blame, confront the brutal facts of current reality, and look back with deep reflection and analysis in order to look forward. Simultaneously, organizations must develop a sophisticated foresight practice in understanding the drivers, signals, and trends in the marketplace, impacting the future. Driven by data, equipped with tools and techniques, and organized around common language are necessary for critical thinking to thrive.
Empower an ecosystem of experimentation
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Seeing the world in new ways, organizations must empower teams across divisions and departments to dream up tomorrow’s solutions by either optimizing current systems, transforming new products, or completely disrupting the marketplace. Not constrained by today’s imperatives, creative and inventive thinking allows organizations to have a consistent stream of innovative ideas to prototype, iterate, and test. Calculated risk taking and failing forward are consequential for small projects to scale later or larger on-going experiments that depart from the past.
Transfer new ideas into new behavior
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Infusing new knowledge, locally and corporately, requires leaders and dedicated teams to evangelize and multiply it throughout the organization. Building shared understanding while searching for maximum impact, organizations must develop various pathways and provide multiple layers of learning, training, and application in order to shift perspective, practice, and performance. Authentic and transparent transfer of new ideas into new behavior can reflect the highest form of engagement and deepest level of learning.
Measure organizational impact
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Being able to draw a direct connection between organizational learning and organizational impact is fundamental to sustaining a culture of curiosity, strategy, and advancement. Both quantitative and qualitative in nature, organizations must frequently (re)assess progress made, opportunities surfaced, gaps identified, and voices unheard when analyzing the breadth and depth of a learning cycle.
Pain Point to Future Ready
Do any of these pain points sound familiar, causing frustration among your leadership team and ultimately, impeding progress? If so, we can help.
- If your organization is too narrowly focused, then we can expand your team’s view of external drivers and signals in the marketplace.
- If your organization is depleted of transformative ideas, then we can equip your team with versatile tools, infusing a creative process.
- If your organization is overwhelmed by volume and pace, then we can build capacity in your team to develop manageable, action-oriented targets and priorities.
- If your organization repeats the same mistakes over and over, then we can help your team unearth blindspots and rebuild better habits and cultivate new ways of behavior.
- If your organization lacks inspiration and motivation, then we can assist your team in analyzing the environment surrounding cohesion and productivity.
- If your organization is losing effectiveness, then we can partner with your team to innovate systems and processes.
- If your organization is experiencing an implementation dip, then we can assist your team in assessing progress, opportunities, gaps, and voice.
- If your organization is experiencing a need for more community and connectedness, then we can help your team design a well-being and resilience framework.
- If your organization is struggling with alignment and collaboration, then we can support team development, cultural norms, and project management.
- If your organization is navigating employee attrition, then we can assist your team, investing in impact players before leaving and compelling others to join the journey.
So, let’s seize this moment, together.
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