Frameworks
To help you navigate today’s complex world, we draw on frameworks that, while simple, yield powerful results.
Design Thinking.
Design Thinking offers an iterative process of designing possible futures. Traditional strategic planning is limited by focusing on past data and looking in the rearview mirror. A design-thinking approach helps you look forward and create the future you want to exist in.
Bright Work’s approach to design thinking is visual and human-centered.
As humans, our native language is visual. We can take in more visual information per second than written information. Visual thinking also engages our sense of play and possibility – yes, even for those of us who “can’t draw”. Our visual, tactile approaches are accessible, engaging, and, best of all, produce valuable insight and tangible results.
Design Thinking is essential in moving from strategy to activation. Your strategy doesn’t live in a slide deck – it lives in the day-to-day actions of your people. After you’ve clarified your strategic choices, you need to create movement in support of your strategy. It’s not enough to just tell people; you need to engage them and build momentum toward your desired future.
Our processes rely on engaging individuals & teams and creating human-centered strategies.
OKRs.
OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) take you from strategy to execution. They were born out of Silicon Valley, and have grown & adapted to work across modern businesses and nonprofits. They are best suited for organizations looking to make transformational change and operate with speed and agility.
Benefits include:
Relentless focus
Increased alignment & coordination
Improved transparency
Better prioritization
Our approach to OKRs acknowledges the fact that learning to write OKRs is only one piece of the pie. True impact with this framework comes when you’ve integrated OKRs into your day-to-day rhythms and with your operating model. Essential but often-missed components are activating your people around this new model and aligning your processes with it.
OKRs are not a quick-patch solution. They take a few quarters of learning, experimenting, and integrating. While there are some clear best practices, there is also much that needs to be tailored to a particular organization. We help you avoid common pitfalls and right-size OKRs to your culture, processes, and strategy.
We propel action behind your strategy and help you complete the journey to success with OKRs.
Ecosystem Intelligence.
While often depicted as hierarchies, organizations function as ecosystems. We rely on a web of connections to operate effectively. Yet, too often, teams operate in silos. Ecosystem Intelligence brings a relationship-centric view and social anthropology-based practices to strengthen the inner workings of organizations.
Ecosystem Intelligence places value on the day-to-day interactions of your people as a measure of organizational health. We integrate EcoIQ principles into our approach to strategy, change management, and OKRs.
For example, it’s possible to implement OKRs in name but not in spirit. The biggest ROI from OKRs comes from how they can impact conversations and interactions. In order to reap these benefits, your leaders need to be equipped to:
Enable dynamic collaborations
Foster conversations that surface impediments and generate “what if…” possibilities
Move from dissatisfaction to action
Build learning cultures
With these simple but powerful practices, we’ve turned around struggling teams, deepened internal talent benches, and enabled large, dispersed organizations to operate in sync.
We strengthen the fabric of your organization.
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“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”