Human-Centered Strategic Planning
Moving higher education organizations from ideas to action
Facilitated Planning
Are you at a critical juncture with your organization? Do you need help facilitating important questions, gathering perspectives, visualizing contexts, prioritizing opportunities, and defining a path forward?
Opportunity Areas
Our clients come to us with many strategic needs. Here is a sample of the opportunities we have facilitated through workshops:
A newly formed team is exploring and codifying its identity, mission and values
A department wants to clarify and define the scope and approach for an important initiative
A service organization is examining how they deliver a new or existing service for students, faculty or staff
Leaders need to determine strategic priorities for the coming year and beyond
What is your opportunity?
Example: a client planned on conducting research and wanted to gain clarity on the problem hypothesis and research questions.
At Power of Design Services, we believe an organization’s success is contingent on key stakeholders' active participation and alignment in planning and where the value of ideas and knowledge sharing are actively practiced, contributing to the best possible outcomes. Colleges and universities serve people in a variety of ways. Understanding these relationships and touchpoints is core to the institution’s success.
“You guided us through understanding and mapping our needs. It was so pivotal in the thinking of the team. There were a LOT of ah ha’s!”
Human-Centered
Participatory methods, facilitated by skilled workshop leaders, engage participants' heads (thinking), hearts (feeling) and hands (doing) in a selection of activities.
Engage your whole self in problem finding and problem solving
Human-centered design methods engage people in sharing vital perspectives and insights and help them feel more connected to the mission and goals. We also help you hold in mind and center on the needs of those you serve.
Workshop Overview
Our workshops and activities are customized to each organization’s specific opportunity area or need. In general, in this workshop series, participants will engage in activities aimed at reflection and future thinking, in framing the context and needs more clearly and defining a path forward. Our human-centered tools and methods will help you clarify the opportunity area you wish to address.
Who Should Attend
Executives, key stakeholders, and team members
Workshop Activities
Activities from this list below will vary depending on the opportunity area being addressed, and the specific goals of the workshop sponsor
Team building and sharing activities
As-is situation and needs articulation and mapping
Mission, vision and values alignment and in action
Framing the problem - converging and diverging on a problem statement and research opportunities
Ecosystem mapping of stakeholders, systems and other contextual considerations
Journey mapping
Future state success visualization
Benefits
Elevation and exploration of voices and ideas
Clarity around a problem area or initiative needs through notes and visualizations
Engagement and alignment of team members
Direction setting and a path forward with the next steps
Deliverables
Workshops report out that may include the following
Synthesis of findings from the workshops
Journey map or other visualizations developed in the workshop
Design brief with an opportunity hypothesis and questions for discovery research
For more information and to schedule a workshop, email: info@pod.services