DLR Group, Named #1 U.S. Design Firm, Says Big Goals Led the Way
The Grove has worked on strategic planning for many years with DLR Group, a national architectural firm. Recently one of our close collaborators at the firm got in touch to share wonderful news: Architect Magazine named DLR Group the #1 design firm in the United States. “Your process has helped us transform our firm,” he wrote.
We called Jon Pettit and Griff Davenport, DLR Group’s managing principals, to learn more about their firm’s journey to excellence. This article is adapted from those conversations.
Decision Rooms: Making Choices in a Big-Picture Context
Excerpted from Visual Leaders by David Sibbet (John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Seeing the forest and the trees is vital to effective decision making. Much of this involves thinking through what needs to be compared with what.
You as a leader can ask for functional plans to be presented to you in ways that aid you in comparing and prioritizing activities using whole-system vision. These types of environments are called decision rooms, project rooms, or rapid decision support centers.
Visual Leaders Now Available – An Interview with Author David Sibbet
This article is drawn from an interview with The Grove’s founder and president David Sibbet. He discusses visual facilitation and his recently-published VISUAL LEADERS: New Tools for Visioning, Management, & Organization Change, the third book in Sibbet’s three-part series on Visual Leadership.
HealthEast Care System: Storymapping the Quality Journey
Betsy Stites and Pam Hull had a problem. They had completed a focused strategy process in their organization, the HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, MN. Now the big goal for HealthEast was “to be the benchmark of quality in the Twin Cities.” The problem was how!
“There had been a lot of uncertainty,” Betsy reflects. “Quality is so ethereal. We had to figure out a way to integrate things from an organizational and cultural standpoint.”
Sparking Conversations That Lead to Change: The Team Performance Online Survey
If you have been fortunate enough to be part of a high-performing and well-aligned team, you won’t soon forget the experience. Unfortunately for most of us, this is all too rare an occurrence.
If your team is flailing, divided, or lacking clarity, The Grove’s newly released Team Performance Online Survey (TPOS) can help. read more…