by Laurie Durnell | Oct 16, 2019 | Team Performance
Why do teams so often fail to achieve the results they were created to accomplish? We sat down with Laurie Durnell, The Grove’s director of consulting, to get her thoughts regarding the team challenges she sees most in the field. The following is a distillation of...
by Gisela Wendling, Ph.D. | May 16, 2018 | Organization Change, Storymapping, Strategic Visioning
Recently the dean of The College of Business Administration at Cal Poly Pomona called The Grove for help. The college of six academic departments and more than 5,000 students needed to move beyond a culture of silos, update some of its administrative processes, and...
by Laurie Durnell | Jan 12, 2018 | Strategic Visioning
What can you do to get your team in sync for 2018? When people get lost in the details of week-to-week implementation, it is easy for them to get disconnected from the big-picture strategy. Early in the new year is a natural time to reconnect, review, and renew....
by Laurie Durnell | Jan 27, 2017 | Team Performance
The landscape of teaming no longer centers around just a single team working on one challenge for a period of time. Yes, such teams still exist, yet increasingly teams are as fluid as flocks of birds that fly through the sky, separate into pods, swirl back together...
by Laurie Durnell | Feb 9, 2016 | Strategic Visioning
Is strategic planning on your horizon? In my consulting work with organizations over the years—across sectors and from a single team to enterprise-wide—I have seen extraordinary results using Strategic Visioning (SV), a Grove visual-planning system. I have used it to...