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- Identifies real business issues.
- Promotes full participation in an open and non-threatening structure.
- Provides opportunity to be heard and to practice listening skills.
- Quickly moves large groups into focussed smaller groups to surface real issues.
- Removes barriers and encourages cross-functional communication.
- Effectively builds alignment and shared purpose.
- Provides immediate and thorough buy-in of proceedings and resulting actions.
- Requires minimal lead and design time.
- Develops wide-spread involvement and commitment to change.
- Systemically connects choices and consequences.
- Enhances Systems Thinking skills.
- Increases organizational responsiveness and adaptablilty.
- Builds environments conducive to Continuous Learning.
- Teaches and Models Transformational Leadership skills.
- Begins and supports new initiatives.
- Provides ownership of ongoing efforts.
- Surface root causes and fundamental issues.
- Avoids wasting time in treating symptoms.
- Improves decision-making process.
- Creates common ground.
- De-fuses highly charged situations in diverse cultures.
- Builds structures to sustain shared futures.
- Collectively and collaboratively surfaces and addresses complex, diverse issues.
- Gets the whole system into one room -- meaning that everyone who needs to be there to make a decision is either there or is represented.
- Provides the opportunity for hard copy documentation by the end of the event, or shortly thereafter.
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