Our ToolBox
Assurance, support and connecting clients with growth resources, that’s how Arkay Solutions makes leaders and their organizations more successful. Business acumen may be a mindgame, but success requires clarity and careful sequencing of decision-making. Pretend, or simulations safely expose your weaknesses, your blind spots and experiences that strengthen your awareness. Playful activities with your team can surface the rich perceptions and knowledge possessed by your teammates, increasing their value and minimizing the collective unknown risks and uncertainty.
Visioning Assistance
Michael Jordan’s achievements required discipline and hours and hours of practice. He never expected every shot to work, but through guided practice he readied himself, strengthened his perceptions and constructed more complex responses. Unconscious muscle memory developed and his confidence grew to that point where presented with the right opportunity, the odds of successfully making the play favored him.
Want to release the power of collective imagination to play out and exploit the knowledge possessed in your teammates? Our Active Play Techniques and Practice:
- quiets fears, calms nerves.
- builds experiences to foster trust
- develops cooperative socialization fostering fairness and altruism
- object play to strengthen identification and solve system problems
- strengthens skills and rapid decision-making confidence.
Framestretching© is our specialty
Motivation, engagement, inspiration that’s our provenance. Changing perception and perspective improves the quality of planning, forecasts and budgeting activities, direct resources and communicate expectations clearly. Success depends on stability and rational assumptions that sadly don’t always reflect reality. Our framework zeros in on perceptions , collectively refocusing understanding, and puts to use assumptions based on fact, not opinion.
Using prototypes to safely test hypotheses about the immediate and wider environment and verify clear reference points. This learning is made to matter. Our process propels improvement and confirms the viability of your chosen approach, saving time and energy and accelerating you to successful outcomes.
Using Imagination often needs a little encouragement, the right setting or environment as well as some helpful cues. Want to try Framestretching©? Learn more? Take a look at Culture-is-King-JPIM-2012 and Ask us about our Starter Seeds.
Communication Tools
Shared Value begins with shared stories. Universal truths result from sharing universal stories that begin with recognizing behavioral similarities amidst the distinct and wide range of people’s experiences, origins and culture. Effective strategies are relatable, and align behavior with shared values held by the organization and its stakeholders. Motivate individuals to turn their frustration into ideas for improvement. Begin by fishing out the stories amidst the chatter, Listening after posing intentionally false assertions statements can do that too.
Encouraging your team to acquire, frame and disseminate the stories that best communicate your intentions, readies and activates your board, recipients of your product or service, employees or investors. Just ask, we’ll be happy to sit and discuss options.
Strength Prospecting
What really makes your organization successful? In most cases, there isn’t a single criterion but a mix of processes, skills, resources, tacit and explicit knowledge. Which capabilities set you apart, expand ever greater advantage? Check out our blog post on Management 2.0, or just Call us.
Decision-Making Tools
Forward facing eyes create natural blind spots. Ever advancing brain research offer greater understanding of how perception and play draw on sensory inputs to create an array of neural pathways that affect the way we move, think, focus and feel. Readjusting our filters and slight alterations in our routines affects our awareness and furthers our ability to prepare for the unexpected. Strategic frameworks, data and activity reports may inform but your decisions drive action. Stop reacting and develop deeper capabilities to be more critical, more questioning and remain nimble when needed.
Our Nimble leader’s checklist--is a simple what else exercise. Designed to activate your curiosity, prompt discover of what more is possible, and inspire action to get you going too.
The Nimble Leader’s Checklist: Thinking Beyond the Framework An Arkay Solutions framework. Schedule a Call and Learn More
The Nimble Leader’s Checklist: Thinking Beyond the Framework is an example of how to put our frameworks to use. Schedule a Call and Learn More