Seminars & WORKSHOPS

Utilizing The Natural Step framework, Dia-Gnosis and Insight Strategic Concepts® collaborate to offer 1-3 day seminars on sustainability planning ranging from an overview of the purpose and process to detailed work sessions on how to develop sustainability plans for their organization. The learning objective is to establish and understand sustainability, a common language and framework for approaching the planning process, and practical case studies of companies who have developed best practices in sustainability planning and problem solving. Participants will be trained to lead the sustainability planning process in their own organization.

Content is a mixture of presentation, workbooks, and step-by-step instructions for application in each member organization.

• Sustainability principles
• Introduction to the planning process
• A business case study
• Step-by-step instructions

Market-sensing is a skill that any organization today can’t do without. Fast changing trends, market trends and business models require leaders to have a keen sense of how market and customers’ needs are evolving. The only way to have a pulse on these trends is to develop monitoring systems for the key drivers of your industry impacting the competitive edge of your organization.

In this 1-2 day seminar Insight Strategic Concepts® partners with Dia-Gnosis to share a specific process for engaging market-sensing practices in your organization. Via our templates, online tools, and step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to identify your competitive drivers, monitor them and develop flexible strategic market plans to drive customer relationships and growth.

• Define your competitive advantage
• Identify key market indicators for success
• Develop tracking systems for high impact trends
• Develop cross-functional market growth plans
• Target specific customer needs
• Engage the organization in market-sensing practices

We have been around the block enough to know what feels right and what doesn’t. What is fulfilling and what isn’t. These tough economic times bring us an opportunity to make choices about what we really want. Likely what we thought would “make us successful” has already proven to not work. It is a time for true growth that only comes from envisioning a future that once seemed impossible and now has to be possible to survive.

Scenario planning is a skill and practice required for practicing vision. It is a left and right brain activity that expands knowledge and creativity. It ultimately requires a commitment for the future that will be realized by action. We believe that these practical competencies to envision and act are required for your organizations. The ability to see a vision, articulate a vision, express a passion, act on a conviction, and hold others accountable to your vision, are all required for success. It is this process that makes organizations entrepreneurial and life giving.

In collaboration with Dia-Gnosis, Insight Strategic Concepts® will explain the scenario planning process and engage participants in the development and sharing of scenarios for the future of their organizations. This learning experience will be foundation for introducing scenario planning and your vision to your organization.

• Identify your oracle question for the future
• Identify driving forces within your industry
• Determine the trends that inflict high impacts and uncertainty on your organization
• Create four scenarios for your future
• Write detailed stories describing the circumstances and implications for your organization

Developing an integrated talent management system in your organization requires the right alignment between people and strategy to achieve your desires results. In collaboration with HRchitecture, Insight Strategic Concepts® will outline a framework for strategic alignment with a clear organizational structure that will support growth.

Starting with a vision for the organization, we will demonstrate how the picture of the organization’s business model needs to be supported with talent. From setting clear departmental goals, to role definition and incentive systems, all aspects of the organizational structure must be aligned to support the right strategic action to achieve results. This structure then swims within the cultural dynamics which need to be carefully considered to assure that a performance management system, talent review process, proper metrics and leadership supports an aligned effort.

• Define the organization vision
• Set the picture for the future business model
• Identify strategic initiatives required to achieve success
• Set time frames and detailed action plans
• Define skills and roles required for talent
• Create performance metrics and management system
• Determine cultural dynamics that will inhibit or accelerate growth

Organizations are a collection of people whose activities center on producing a specific result. Within the parameters of that activity, each person can be identified based on a characteristic pattern of behavior that is their individual attempt to find their place in the group. This patterned behavior or “lifestyle” is formed early in life within the context of the family, where the individual attempted to garner their share of the attention and emotional resources offered by parents and/or primary caretakers. As such, it is fundamental to a person’s sense of themselves, while remaining largely outside of consciousness. It forms “reality” as an individual sees it.

These patterns persist throughout life and, while brilliant adaptations useful in early childhood, they often become increasingly dysfunctional outside the family circle. The result can be seen in difficulties in relationships, stunted creativity, a lack of enthusiasm for work and a basic withholding of talents, affect and engagement.

Idios has teamed with Insight Strategic Concepts® to offer an integrated, collaborative program that leads individual business owners and leaders in a small group setting to engage in the dialog of gaining insight into their particular lifestyle patterns as they effect the leadership of their companies. Participants learn not only “who” they are, but “how” they are as they relate to others, as they lead their organizations, and most importantly, how they might be able to express themselves in more fulfilling, creative activities and roles within and without the organization.

• Money
• Relationships
• Adult education and career development
• Spirituality and consciousness
• Parenting
• Goal setting for individuals
• Legacy