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Enhancing skills in Strategic Conversation.

Your choices are:

Going it alone is very affordable. It gives you complete control over the process. 
Getting help when needed may be the best of both worlds for some organisations, because with this option the organisation isn't attempting to 'hand over' responsibility for the effort and success. 
The success of the third option, getting full help, will depend upon where you get that help. If done well, full help should accelerate organisational progress into SC, with benefit from specialist knowledge about both learning (adult & organisational), and about SC.

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NOTE: Deltapoint offers ’skills development’ programs in Strategic Conversation. The programs are in two forms: ‘king-hit’ workshops or development programs. Because the skill and usage level of Strategic Conversation can now be measured, it is possible to monitor uptake of the skill and the impact it is having in real terms. Contact us

Option 1 - Going it alone - learn strategic conversation by yourself

Everything reasonable has been done to provide enough information on this site to help you to 'go it alone' if you wish. One approach is to have the organisation measured for strategic Conversation, and then 'fix' the organisation based on the report you received. To fix from the report, you just address the low-scored items and fix those aspects of organisational performance, structure, or behaviour - depending on what is needed. You could use the report to determine where the SC gaps are by filling out an extra blank questionnaire, but this time you do so with very careful thoughts about how you believe that the people in your organisation 'should' have been able to respond.  By comparing the answers of your 'ideal template' against the scores that are actually returned, you have your SC gaps.

The other approach in going it alone is to elevate SC skills overall, without reference to a report. It sounds like a ‘shot-gun’ approach, but we now know it can work very well. The structure of the Strategic Conversation skills-acquisition program used by Deltapoint is available for you on this site.  The recommended session topics are identified and explained, and some material that Deltapoint uses as handouts to accompany those topic sessions is also on the web-site. You will need to do the research and reading necessary to put the content into each session topic, but you have the session topics, recommended sequence, and recommended learning processes to start with. Assembling the session contents will take considerable effort by someone on your staff, but once you have done it you will always have that resource and can repeat the program to keep people going through it.

The beauty of this option is that Strategic Conversation by its nature is self-levelling. It will, in the course of skills acquisition, challenge itself and seek the most useful ways to develop and practice the skill within the given organisation. There is no other program for change or development that has this property. And once acquired, the skill is always there and always self-examining for effectiveness. 

So if you 'fix' based on the report, you will be able to target the most important obstacles to strategic success. Then take another measurement to see how it’s all going. Or if you prefer the shotgun approach (to include SC broadly throughout the organisation), it will be harder and take longer, but you will have resources and high preparedness for future changes.

Either way, with the understanding that you can get about Strategic Conversation from this site, and the reports you receive if you measure the levels of Strategic Conversation, you will have the information needed to enhance these skills. This site provides printable documents and links to other SC sites. 

If you go it alone, and it seems to be failing, you can still call for help - the earlier the better.

Why would we seem to encourage you to have a go at it alone? Because we think you will begin to understand its full potential - and call us.

Option 2 - Getting some help - as needed

If you wish, you can request help from Deltapoint in interpretation of your report and devising an action plan. That plan can then be run either in-house using your own facilitators and trainers entirely, or with combinations of internal and external resources. It's about your choices.

If you elect for in-house facilitation, Deltapoint can assist, upon request, with key sessions or special sessions that you design but you think that we may be able to add value. We are very flexible about how we help. 

Deltapoint can't make its own session content material available to you on a piece-meal basis because each part of the program is linked to other parts - it's a package. Our program needs facilitation by someone with a known fluency in SC and familiarity with our overall program. The Deltapoint content material is therefore only available through the full-help plan.

Option 3 - Using external resources to develop your Strategic Conversation

Deltapoint can provide programs that are gentle and gradual (Development Programs), or intense and rapid (King-Hit series). In these formats, a relationship is set up between specific members of your organisation and Deltapoint. Using workshops and ongoing phone consultations, the objective is to enhance the development and use of Strategic Conversation throughout your organisation - via the actions of those specific members. Objective assessment is paramount. The program contents are research-based, the outcomes are results-focussed, and done in a way that is people-friendly.

Research into success of organisational change shows that Option 3 is most likely to succeed, and more quickly. Indeed, the comparison figures are startling.

Contact info@strategic-conversation.com.au