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Robert coaches you and your team to work better and smarter.

Think Different with Innovative Practices
Robert works with whole organizations and schools on innovative change. His hands-on approach helps you optimize resources and develop sustainable practices to strengthen your organization and the individuals in it. After our initial exploratory meeting, we develop a clear plan with the goals and methods clearly (and visually) outlined and understood. Goals and methods that have us thinking differently and seeing the innovative path.

Robert's method focuses on creating a foundation that supports the various initiatives and practices currently in place. His innovative approaches succeed when we collaborate regularly over a period of time to successfully build capacity within the organization. My goal is develop a sustainable model that is clearly understood and implemented to support the organizations goals and success(es).

Whether working himself, and/or
with team collaborators we are:

• a source of strategic insight and foresight
• develop platforms for consistent development
• an integrator across disciplines and functions/grade levels
• a developer of leadership capability
• a source of innovative best practices

He can:

• implement collaborative practices
• develop a vision and plan that is understood with buy-in throughout the organization
• compliment and support current initiatives
• form collaborative alliances
• developing a reflective practice
• provide professional development for teachers - pedagogical strategies and in class tactics
• support and lead education and non-profit innovation
• lead visioning sessions

His skills include:

• hands-on implementation
• documenting our process
• digital media

His method(s) of working aim at a sustainable model that is built on a systems approach. The key elements that support this model are reflection and community. A brief descriptive of the three key elements - systems, reflection, community - follow:

• Systems - implementing a sustainable model that is both horizontal and vertical in its implementation and practice;
• Community - 1) developing common verbal and visual languages in non-profit organizations and schools, and 2) cooperative learning as a method of building the community and our practice;
• Reflection - is an ongoing analysis of current practice(s) through synthesis and implementation

Within each of key three elements we implement methods that support our whole organization including:

Systems: to support our consistency throughout our organization, we must have an understanding of how our practice is consistent throughout the organization - both horizontally and vertically. We will often use visual tools to understand ourselves, share our thinking with colleagues, and understand the thinking of our whole organization.

Community: we will use specific methods of a visual language such as concept mapping, mind mapping, Thinking Maps, or similar ways of communicating our thinking visually. Verbally, we will develop common vocabulary to assure understanding and avoid assumptions.

Reflection: we will create coaching methods to support mutual learning throughout the organization, use idea platforms to document and reflect on our practices, and develop methods of documentation to support or understanding of how we are doing.

Download a larger view of the above Think Different with Innovative Practice(s) visual map as a pdf file.

updated 28 November 2007