Leading Systems Change Through Strategic Dialogue
The best strategic plans fail without the conversations that bring them to life.
Strategic challenges require strategic conversations. This advanced workshop develops the leadership skills needed for strategic thinking and engagement at every level of your organization.
The Challenge
Today’s leaders must handle complexity and continuous change while keeping teams aligned and moving forward. Traditional top-down approaches often fail because they don’t engage the collective wisdom of your organization or build the buy-in needed for lasting change.
The Solution
Strategic Conversations Worth Having combines the power of the SOAR Framework with Appreciative Inquiry principles to create conversations that engage whole systems in strategic thinking, planning, and change.
What You’ll Learn
This intensive workshop provides frameworks and tools for facilitating strategic conversations that drive real results:
SOAR Strategic Framework
- Strengths: Explore and use organizational capabilities
- Opportunities: Identify and pursue possibilities for growth
- Aspirations: Align around shared vision and desired outcomes
- Results: Design measurable actions and accountability
Whole Systems Engagement
- Facilitate strategic conversations at all organizational levels
- Engage diverse stakeholders in meaningful dialogue
- Scale strategic thinking across your entire organization
- Build alignment while honoring different perspectives
Workshop Experience
Learning Modules:
- Strategic Thinking & Mindset: Adopt a living systems perspective and understand the leader’s role in strategic conversation
- SOAR Conversations: Master the framework for fostering strategic dialogue at all levels
- Appreciative Inquiry 5-D Cycle: Learn to engage whole systems in strategic planning and change
- Whole Systems Engagement Processes: Understand key factors for successful large-group strategic conversations
Hands-On Practice
Design and facilitate actual strategic conversations using real organizational challenges and opportunities.
Who Should Attend
Firm leaders and executive teams
Change sponsors or leaders
Team leaders looking to create engagement around strategic team initiatives
Cross-functional collaborators
Anyone responsible for leading systems change
Teams preparing for major transformations or shifts
Key Outcomes
Participants will leave able to:
- Design strategic conversations that generate innovative solutions
- Facilitate whole systems strategic thinking and engagement
- Use inquiry-based dialogue to handle complex challenges
- Reduce costs, misalignment, and conflicts through better strategic communication
- Build organizational capacity for continuous strategic adaptation
The Business Impact
Organizations using strategic conversation approaches report:
- More agile response to market changes
- Increased innovation and creative problem-solving
- Better strategic alignment across all levels
- Stronger stakeholder engagement and buy-in
- Reduced resistance to strategic initiatives
- Stronger organizational resilience
Change Your Strategic Capacity
In an era of constant change, your ability to facilitate strategic conversations determines your organization’s future success. Learn to tap into collective wisdom and drive strategic results through the power of intentional dialogue.
Contact Archos Advisors to bring Strategic Conversations Worth Having to your organization.