Set the Direction
Clear priorities.
Alignment for today.
Custom facilitation for city and county leadership. Take a fresh look at what has changed and what the organization, its staff, and the people it serves need now.
Explore a fresh approachA thirty-minute conversation about current challenges and where alignment would help.
Explore the approachA practical basis for what comes next.
For the decisions ahead.
A planning cycleBring leadership questions into view before larger planning work begins.
A leadership transitionEstablish a starting point for a new leader or changed governing body.
A refresh of prioritiesRevisit what has changed, what still holds, and what needs attention.
Connect leadership
with direction.
Different roles bring different views of what matters.
Make room to consider what has changed, what still holds, and what the organization needs now.
The aim is a shared basis for decisions that respects existing responsibilities and keeps staff and the people served in view.
- The organization
- Purpose and priorities
- Staff
- What staff need to do the work
- People served
- Needs and expectations
A shared basis for decisions
Designed around
the work already underway.
Use existing plans and useful workshop elements as a starting point. Shape the engagement around the situation.
Prepare
Bring priorities, leadership perspectives, and decisions into view. Establish how people contribute and how the work is recorded in the public setting.
Work together
Use facilitated discussion and selected exercises to connect direction with action. Record matters that still need a decision.
Carry forward
Identify responsibilities and a review rhythm. Include further working sessions or support where the scope calls for them.
A full-day retreat can be one part of the engagement, with preparation and follow-through shaped around it.
Explore The Shift That SticksPractice
working together.
A plan matters in the conversations that follow.
Listening, making room for different views, and working through a question together are part of putting direction into practice.
Facilitated exercises give colleagues time to try these behaviors together and consider what they can carry into everyday work.
Grounded in municipal
alignment work.
Imagine That Performance’s experience includes leadership conversations, assessment synthesis, presentation materials, and facilitated work with executive teams.
Rob Duncan has served as program owner and lead facilitator in municipal organizational-alignment work.
Meet Rob DuncanHow scope
and fee are set.
Preparation, participants, sessions, written outputs, and follow-through shape the proposal. The team and timing are agreed for the work at hand.
A focused day or a wider engagement.
A proposal built around what is useful.
Can elected officials and executives take part?
Yes. Participants, preparation, session design, and records are set for the organization’s circumstances.
Does this replace a strategic plan?
The work can precede, refresh, or complement a planning cycle. The proposal sets its relationship to existing plans and any further planning work.
What happens after the facilitated work?
The agreed scope determines whether the engagement ends with a record and next steps or includes further sessions, coaching, reviews, or reporting.
What does the first conversation cover?
The situation, the leadership group, the decisions ahead, and useful work already underway. Then, what a helpful next step could look like.
Start with the situation
on the desk.
A thirty-minute conversation with Rob can help clarify the fit and what the work might need to include.
Open the conversationA closer look
at the workshop.
An anonymous adaptation from an executive-team workbook: develop a goal, review it with peers, and consider the support it needs.
View three workshop prompts
- Develop a goal
- What should this goal accomplish, and why does it matter?
- Review with peers
- What is clear, what could be stronger, and what needs clarification?
- Plan the support
- What leadership behavior would support this goal, and what support is needed from the team?
Adapted prompts, not participant answers. The exercises are selected for each engagement.