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Keeping Energies High During Project Lows

Learnings from Edmonton’s Integrated Strategic Development Branch

Bart SzopiakSupervisor

Dallas DysonSocial Planner

Roman EisnerData Scientist

Sherrill JohnsonStrategic Planner

Adam KebedeSocial Planner

Amanda RancourtStrategic Analyst

Ian RobertsonProject Officer

Miki Stricker-TalbotIntrapreneur

Cheryl WickwareResearch Consultant/ Strategic Analyst

Amanda YuSocial Planner

Ian HowattDirector

Oksana NiedzielskiStrategic Foresight and Design

Who We Are: Integrated Strategic Development, Strategic Design

Bart SzopiakSupervisor

Dallas DysonSocial Planner

Roman EisnerData Scientist

Sherrill JohnsonStrategic Planner

Adam KebedeSocial Planner

Amanda RancourtStrategic Analyst

Ian RobertsonProject Officer

Miki Stricker-TalbotIntrapreneur

Cheryl WickwareResearch Consultant/ Strategic Analyst

Amanda YuSocial Planner

Ian HowattDirector

Oksana NiedzielskiStrategic Foresight and Design

Who We Are: Integrated Strategic Development, Strategic Design

AgendaOur goal for today: Build Each Other’s Capacity

● Welcome!● Our Agreements for Today● Wicked Problems● Adam’s Story● Your Story● Our Story

Today’s agreements:Let’s act in ways that

foster trust

Let’s be ourselves

Let’s be comfortable with being

uncomfortable

Let’s be curious

Let’s be careful of our own judgements

Let’s acknowledge and appreciate

Let’s keep the stories here and take the

lessons with us

Let’s go with the currents

Let’s have FUN!

Hi!At your table, please introduce yourself

Your name

Hi!At your table, please introduce yourself

Your name

A single word to describe your favourite city

in the world

Hi!At your table, please introduce yourself

Your name

A single word to describe your favourite city

in the world

Awesome or Brilliant?

Your name

Wicked Problems

Wicked Problems

Wherein The City of Edmonton meets The stacey Matrix and

sh*T Gets Real

The stacey Matrix

Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

The stacey Matrix

Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Simple decision making:Follow the “best practice recipe”

The stacey Matrix

Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Simple decision making:Follow the “best practice recipe”

Develop commonGround, compromiseor compete.

The stacey Matrix

Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Simple decision making:Follow the “best practice recipe”

Learn-by-doing,see whatemerges,adapt.

Develop commonGround, compromiseor compete.

The stacey Matrix

Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Simple decision making:Follow the “best practice recipe”

Learn-by-doing,see whatemerges,adapt.

Develop commonGround, compromiseor compete.

Create stability, look for

opportunities to innovate.

The stacey Matrix

Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Simple decision making:Follow the “best practice recipe”

Use expertise, experiment andbuild knowledge.

Learn-by-doing,see whatemerges,adapt.

Develop commonGround, compromiseor compete.

Create stability, look for

opportunities to innovate.

The stacey Matrix

Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Where our team works / plays (we also overlap at the edges)

Adam’s Story● \\

Adam’s Story

InitiationPitch Information Gathering 1

Information Gathering 2

Final Report

Adam’s Story - Information Gathering 1

InitiationPitch Information Gathering 1

Information Gathering 2

Final Report

Many Questions

...Few Answers

Blue Sky

Adam’s Story - Information Gathering 1

InitiationPitch Information Gathering 1

Information Gathering 2

Final Report

Many Questions

...Few Answers

Photo Credit:Thayne Tuason

Adam’s Story - Information Gathering 1

InitiationPitch Information Gathering 1

Information Gathering 2

Final Report

Blue Sky Sessions

Photo Credit:Anastasiaka

Adam’s Story - Multidisciplinary Audit

InitiationPitch Information Gathering 1

Information Gathering 2

Final Report

CollaborationDeep Listening

Photo Credit:Erich Ferdinand

Adam’s Story - Final Report & Insights…& Conflict

InitiationPitch Information Gathering 1

Information Gathering 2

Final Report

Adam’s Story & Lessons Learnt●●Rethinking My Work

● Conflict● Stability● Success

Strategic Design’s Energy Toolkit● Accountability Framework:

B.R.A.V.I.N.G. (Brene Brown) + Team Charter● Top Cover● Blue Skies Session● Deep listening● Empathy + Action = Compassion (Dalai Lama / Jeff

Weiner)● Our Environment (embedding fun & levity)

Your STory?

What happens when You’re “in it”?

Let’s WoRkshop this thing!

What Kind of Complexity are you

facing?

What has helped keep your energy ‘high’?

...And with all of this, How Do you

Deliver on projects and expectations?

Report Back:A Highlight from Each Table

Questions? Queries? Contact!

Adam KebedeSocial PlannerIntegrated Strategic DevelopmentCity of Edmonton780.508.9374adam.kebede@edmonton.ca

Miki Stricker-TalbotIntrapreneurIntegrated Strategic DevelopmentCity of Edmonton780.508.9377miki.stricker-talbot@edmonton.ca

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