Our Philosophy - how does it differ from others?

We help you extend leadership and communication horizontally across your organisation and beyond.  These focus on growing leadership and management skills within project teams that may include customers, suppliers, cross organisational partnerships or program alliances to deliver real customer outcomes.

Our point of difference is that we take participants beyond traditional project and organisational management practices, empowering them both them and these processes with a Kiwi organic leadership model that acknowledges organisations as being living, complex and interdependent; needing collaboration, sharing of information and systems thinking  - essential skills for the future.

We promise that participants will challenge themselves with some fresh and healthy thinking:

• A living systems model that encourages positive individual and organisational behaviours
• Driving action by thinking back from the future we seek; beyond just fire-fighting today
• Respecting our diversity and acknowledging that we all contribute in our unique way
• Proactively seeking opportunity, even in what seems like chaos; far beyond risk management
• Innovation tools to turn ideas into projects, within programs that deliver / lever real outcomes
• Collaborative tools for initiating, planning, implementing and controlling projects
• Growing a thirst for learning and sharing in ways that suit the knowledge economy

Listen to our Living Systems Thinking radio interview and get our Group Complexity Game

For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong - H L Mecken

How we match the business environment and culture we work in?

We use the Cynefin Framework to help us at any time be clear whether we are operating in the Simple, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic or Disorder Domains so we can use an appropriate response. Cynefin is the work of Dave Snowden.and others. View the Videoclip that describes it and it's Wiki. It is mapped onto the Tipu Ake Organic Leadership Model here.

The following table look at the transition path as we move from the Simple (linear cause and effect) to the Chaotic (lots of energy but no growth emerging yet).

The second part of the table gives an indication how each of the common project management methodologies and tools map across the Cynefin domains.