 What percentage of your time is spent fixing issues? How much energy does your staff spend focusing on what is possible, rather than why things won’t work? In Working for Purpose people create their own destiny, the destiny of the organization.
How?
By bringing together two unique experiences, Appreciative Inquiry, (a ground breaking organizational development approach), and Community Service to create an opportunity for working teams to find their limitless potential and a construct a path to get there.
Appreciative Inquiry (AI): Your focus becomes your reality. Team Ascent’s AI process will help you to develop successful business strategies. Together we will focus on your ability to create solutions. AI is used world wide to strengthen communities and organizations such as the U.S. Navy, the city of Chicago, the country of Sweden. Each of these entities utilized AI to create future development in leadership values, urban development and national tourism. These and countless others have benefited from the AI approach. Through interviews, participants engage in an inventory of strengths and successful experiences focused on a specific business challenge to learn and create a design for an ideal future.
Using Community Service as a venue for collecting success stories in the topic you choose; leadership, customer service, innovation, building morale and many others, group members get a fundamental new perspective of purpose in their learning area. Imagine learning about customer service while serving food at a soup kitchen, or recognizing the power of deep relationships at a fundamental level while working with a village in Costa Rica.
For the second half of the workshop, group members share their experiences from the service component. The team looks for similar underlying themes, which they would like to incorporate into their workplace.
We have seen Working for Purpose change entire organizations. They have a new bond, more respect and more productive conversations, which leads to a more productive work climate.
1-3 days.
- Management Teams
- Work Groups
- Small Businesses
- Business Collaborators
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