DLR Group Invests in Leadership Development
- August 8th, 2009 9:17 PM
The Grove is facilitating DLR Group’s third, five-year strategic visioning process this year and adding an exciting new element – the involvement of their emerging leadership in helping facilitate the process. With DLR’s permission, we’d like to share a bit of the design.
In 2000 we helped this growing architectural/engineering firm’s 40 partners envision their goals for 2005 and key initiatives, using a classic Strategic Visioning process. In 2004 the process repeated and involved about 70 leaders, projecting out to 2010. This year the firm is focusing on 2015 and involving the whole organization.
An earlier goal was to develop a leadership culture within the organization, now in 11 offices in North America. The downturn is hitting architecture firms VERY hard, especially the big ones focusing mostly on corporate work, but DLR Group diversified early and is doing relatively well. In the midst of all of this year’s challenges they are making additional investment in leadership development. They think it’s more important now than ever. (more…)
New Virtual Grove Learning Center
- February 16th, 2009 6:36 AM
Is it possible to experience panoramic visualization without actually participating in a meeting that is graphically facilitated? We’re coming close in The Grove’s new Learning Center in Second Life. For about a year we’ve have been experimenting with how much of The Grove’s work we can portray in this interesting virtual world. We own an island there, called “The Grove.” Just click this SLURL and it will direct you. If you get lost search for “The Grove” under “Places.” Maps on the pier where you land at The Grove have clickable teleports, including up to the Learning Center, shown here.
The Grove Learning Center in Second Life
Bay Area as “Future Center”
- December 21st, 2008 2:27 PM
If bad news were flames, we’d all agree that with the recent economic news we’ve been going through a fire season—the worst kind of fire season. Most of us are in the process of scrambling to respond. Can our organizations adapt to survive? How will we survive? One thing I know from 30 years of organizational consulting is that crisis is truly opportunity. Until people have to change they don’t. Well we all have to now, and we will. The question is to what and how?
As our leadership team addressed these questions in a recent 2009 planning retreat, we realized the Bay Area is uniquely equipped to meet the challenge head-on and The Grove’s role at its heart in these times became more clear.
