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Strategic Doing

Strategic Doing Practitioners' Training


By Zoom on January 4th, 5th, 10th-12th, with each day from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm EST (New York) or 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm CET (Brussels)

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About The Strategic Sandbox, LLC

The Strategic Sandbox is a collaborative consulting group in performance excellence and agile methodologies surrounding strategy development. 

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Brian Kolenich


Brian Kolenich has over thirty years in nonprofit leadership, with the last 16 years serving as an executive director. He is a Fellow in the Strategic Doing Institute.  In addition, Brian is a Master/Alumni Examiner with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, serving the award since 2003. He brought innovations to the Mahoning Valley, which includes co-creating TEDxYoungstown in 2014 and founding the Mahoning Valley Lifelong Learning Institute in 2013.  He has a master’s in management from The McGregor School at Antioch University.

What is it?

An outcomes-oriented collaborative

for strategic action plans.

What Is It?

Who Needs it?

The answer is simple, anyone!  Anyone

working in collaborative settings.

Who Needs It?

Strategic Doing Overview

What is Strategic Doing


Strategic Doing:

  • It is a systematic, agile strategy development method that enables civic and business leaders to quickly form collaborations to guide change.
  • Is action oriented and highly scalable methodology.
  • It is highly collaborative and based on the idea of pulling a team together quickly to leverage their assets and talents to find new opportunities.
  • It is outcomes oriented. Unlike strategic planning, strategic doing is based a 30-day cycle of thinking and doing, thinking and doing in quick cycles.
  • It is set in a simple yet complex set of questions and rules that guide conversations to achieve strategic outcomes and action plans in a more organic manner.
  • It is based on over 20-years research at Purdue and the University of Northern Alabama’s Agile Strategy Labs. 

What to Expect from a Workshop


During a Strategic Doing Workshop, participants are led through an agile set of structured conversations and guided through workshop exercises, to define five things:

1.      New opportunities to address the complex challenges at hand.


2.      At least one approach with outcomes and metrics that define success.


3.      At least one initiative or project.


4.      Strategic plans that are ready to implement that day.


5.      A plan to meet again to monitor progress. 

The process focuses on four key questions:

1)     What could we do together?

  • Look first at the assets within the group at the table.
  • Next look to see how combining the known assets might offer new opportunities.
  • Evaluate who is not at the table but might have an interest or resources helpful to the solution.

 

2)     What should we do together?

  • Evaluate the options for action and help the group to narrow the scope of activity by suggesting the group focus on no more than three goals initially.
  • Analyze the opportunities to see which one will make the biggest impact and be the easiest to implement.
  • Define an outcome with specific characteristics of success and metrics.

 

3)     What will we do together?

  • Draft a strategic action plan that includes short-term action steps that includes deliverables and due dates.
  • Everyone participates in the strategic action plans by making “micro-commitments.”
  • The team makes public commitments to “do” the action steps.

 

4)     What’s our 30/30?

  • Decide how the group will communicate (face-to-face, virtual, email, weblogs, etc.)
  • Set a date to meet as a team in the next 30-days, for follow-up, report outs, and making course corrections, if needed.


Strategic Doing is a tested methodology that allows for your community, organization, or network to create innovative, strategic action plans, while building agility, accountability, and trust in a half day workshop.

Workshops to create, redirect, and drive strategic action plans for your community, organization, or network. In addition, training to learn how to practice Strategic Doing is available individually or for your group.

 

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