Our Direction Setting process has been developed over the past 25 years and, therefore, is a highly proven approach - in whatever circumstance a team operates in, e.g. from high-tech to science to manufacturing to education to health - which enables teams to develop real clarity about what they are trying to achieve, what needs to be done and who is responsible for which tasks. We call the process ‘Direct Setting Workshop’ (or DSW).
DSW begins by walking a team through the Glowinkowski™ Integrated Framework so they may understand how they shape the culture of their organisation and how this culture impacts and creates the Climate, which differentiates superior organisational performance from the average and mediocre.
Another critical component of DSW concerns helping the team to understand the natural or preferred styles of everyone in the team, which is achieved through using GPI™. GPI™ reports showing the team composition as well as individual reports are utilised. GPI™ team reports show the extent to which the team is naturally diverse or has a certain skew to a particular preferred approach. Diversity can bring conflict when it is not appreciated and understood. Skewed teams may manifest a ‘group-think’, which causes them to get locked into issues and not to appreciate alternative approaches.
Having understood the ‘landscape’ of the team, DSW facilitates the team to generate a purpose statement and a range of critical goals (CSFs) that need to be accomplished for the purpose to be fulfilled. Finally, DSW enables the team to identify what needs to be done, i.e. the tasks, to accomplish the goals, who will be responsible for which task, and the priority in which these tasks need to be undertaken.
As a result of DSW, teams possess real clarity about what they are being asked to do. As such, this represents a very significant contribution to their possessing a strong, high-performance oriented Climate. They have laid down what they are there to do and it is in their hands to do what is required to achieve their goals.
