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adapt or die.

Adaptation is the adjustment of organisms to their environment in order to improve their chances of survival. Your organizations also has to adapt to your environment–shifting markets, dynamic customer needs,  and changing technologies– or you risk obsolescence. 

To evolve from where you are now into something more nimble, you’ll have to go through an adaptive valley. You adopt new tools, processes, practices, relationships, and mindsets in this phase. The adaptive valley inherently comes with disorder, but the disorder is temporary.

Our evo.IQ Model™ is a structured approach to help you quickly and systematically move through the adaptive valley and evolve with intent. It helps you focus your goals, hone your skills, communicate more effectively, continuously experiment, learn through feedback cycles, and embrace a growth mindset. And don’t worry; it won’t take millions of years.

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Organizational Evolution

Personal Evolution

  • Assess

    Assess is the backbone of the evo.IQ Model™ and provides the foundation for your organizational evolution. Interviews, workshops, and an in-depth analysis provide critical insights into your organization’s people, products, processes, technology, culture, and mindset. With this holistic view, we will recommend learning paths, capability enhancements, and product delivery improvements. This is where we discover and prioritize your organizational goals, outcomes, and strategic direction.

    Align

    Align bonds with Assess to create structure and stability for your organizational evolution. Together, we solidify your strategic plan, organizational roadmap, and operating model and baseline shared language, practices, and processes through targeted training. With a clear collective vision of the future, your team will launch full speed ahead.

    Adopt

    Adopt is essential for reactions to take place. With people and priorities aligned, we coach teams through the problem-solving process of Hypothesize > Experiment > Recalibrate > Repeat. And what is the most volatile element to change? Humans. Humans are messy, and change is hard; skill-building is a must. Our coaches focus on improving communication, alignment, process and practice adoption, and a continuous improvement mindset.

    Amplify 

    Amplify increases the concentration of your organization’s evolutionary efforts. The products of successful experiments can now be replicated and scaled throughout the business, creating new connections and improving organizational plasticity. As customer delivery becomes a holistic capability, you’ll better anticipate and embrace market, technology, and economic changes.

    Accelerate

    Accelerate is the catalyst of the evolve model, speeding up your organizational evolution. By building learning communities, colleagues share valuable experiences, deepen learning, and experiment with new, more advanced tools, practices, and processes. There is kinetic energy in a learning culture that keeps people engaged, interested, and invested in the future.

  • Assess

    Assess is the backbone of the evo.IQ Model™ and provides the foundation for your personl evolution. Self-assessments and colleague interviews will provide you with a 360-degree perspective, helping you gain valuable insights into your leadership style and your impact on those around you. This holistic view will provide an inventory of your capabilities, identify skill gaps, and recommend growth paths.

    Align

    Align bonds with Assess to create structure and stability for your leadership evolution. Together, we solidify your growth paths, learning backlog, and continuous improvement plan and begin skill building. With a clear vision of the future, you will start, succeed, stumble, try again, and gain momentum.

    Adopt

    Adopt is essential for reactions to take place. With your priorities aligned and your first essential skills learned, you’ll step deeper into the discomfort of personal growth. These skills become part of your DNA through purposeful practice and continuous self-reflection, ensuring a genuine, courageous response when the stakes are high.

    Amplify 

    As you hone your skills and broaden your capabilities, your communication with others, approach to challenges, and perspective on the world will mature. Your leadership impact will deepen, and you’ll consciously shape the people and culture around you. By finding potential in others and elevating them, the sum becomes greater than the parts, broadening organizational and relational intelligence while fulfilling your individual purpose.

    Accelerate

    Accelerate is the catalyst of the evo.IQ Model™, intensifying your personal evolution. Mentoring and sharing approaches and insights with others will deepen your learning, strengthen relationships, and have a positive ripple effect across your organization. There is kinetic energy in courageous leadership that keeps you engaged, fulfilled, and invested in your future.

The words: The evo.IQ Process

Our process provides a sustainable course of evolutionary progression for your organization. The continuous improvement process of Asses, Align, Adopt, Amplify, and Accelerate becomes embedded in your culture. Nature never stops evolving, and you won’t either. Are you ready to experiment?

Approximately 1-2 weeks

  • Conduct team and individual interviews and discovery workshops
  • Utilize assessment tools like Team Agile Maturity Assessment, Organizational Agility Assessment, Leadership 360, Daring Leadership, Lectica, and more
  • Understand organizational goals, outcomes, capability needs, and strategic direction
  • Create findings report and debrief leadership: themes, strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities
Light blue circle with a big A and the word Align

Approximately 2-4 week, revisited yearly.

  • Agree on a coaching strategy and training plan
  • Recommend learning paths, capability enhancements, and delivery improvements
  • Establish the Strategic Vision
  • Formulate the Organization/Program/Team Operating Model
  • Train to baseline: trainings and workshops customized specifically for your needs to help create alignment to decided-upon outcomes.
Grey Green circle with a big A and Adopt inside

90-day iterations

  • Execute coaching strategy and training plan
  • Deliver learning paths, capability enhancements, and delivery improvements
  • Operationalize Organization/Program/Team Operating Model
  • Coaching and mentoring for Team and individual growth
  • Additional trainings and workshops as needs arise: improving communication, organizational alignment, process and practice adoption, and a continuous improvement mindset
  • Create continuous learning through rigorous experimentation and adopt successes
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Continuously

  • Invest in developing people, potential, and capabilities
  • Optimize business capabilities and revenue opportunities
  • Continuously evaluate and improve processes and practices
  • Implement and scale successful experiments
  • Maximize organizational and technology capabilities
  • Create an environment and culture for agility and responsiveness to change
  • Data-driven decision-making and prioritization
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Approximately 1-3 months

  • Create a self-healing, resilient organization
  • Create learning communities
  • Build and foster an Organizational Learning Backlog
  • Invest in greatness: Coaching Kata, Human-Centered Design Studio, Business Incubation Lab, or Technology Innovation Center
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