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Keeping Energies High During Project Lows Learnings from Edmonton’s Integrated Strategic Development Branch

Who We Are: Integrated Strategic Development, Strategic Design Ian Howatt Dallas Dyson Bart Szopiak Sherrill Johnson Roman Eisner Adam Kebede Director Social Planner Supervisor Strategic Planner Data Scientist Social Planner Amanda Rancourt Oksana Niedzielski Cheryl Wickware Amanda Yu Ian Robertson Miki Stricker-Talbot Strategic Analyst Strategic Foresight Research Consultant/ Social Planner Project Officer Intrapreneur and Design Strategic Analyst

Who We Are: Integrated Strategic Development, Strategic Design Ian Howatt Dallas Dyson Bart Szopiak Sherrill Johnson Roman Eisner Adam Kebede Director Social Planner Supervisor Strategic Planner Data Scientist Social Planner Amanda Rancourt Oksana Niedzielski Cheryl Wickware Amanda Yu Ian Robertson Miki Stricker-Talbot Strategic Analyst Strategic Foresight Research Consultant/ Social Planner Project Officer Intrapreneur and Design Strategic Analyst

Agenda Our goal for today: Build Each Other’s Capacity Welcome! ● Our Agreements for Today ● Wicked Problems ● Adam’s Story ● Your Story ● Our Story ●

Today’s agreements: Let’s acknowledge and Let’s act in ways that Let’s be curious appreciate foster trust Let’s be careful of our Let’s go with the Let’s be ourselves own judgements currents Let’s be comfortable Let’s keep the stories Let’s have FUN! with being here and take the uncomfortable lessons with us

Your name Hi! At your table, please introduce yourself

Your name Hi! A single word to describe your favourite city At your table, please in the world introduce yourself

Your name Your name Hi! A single word to describe your favourite city At your table, please in the world introduce yourself Awesome or Brilliant?

Wicked Problems

Wicked Problems Wherein The City of Edmonton meets The stacey Matrix and sh*T Gets Real

The stacey Matrix Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

The stacey Matrix Stacey RD. Strategic Simple decision management and making: organisational Follow the “best dynamics: the challenge of practice recipe” complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

The stacey Matrix Develop common Ground, compromise or compete. Stacey RD. Strategic Simple decision management and making: organisational Follow the “best dynamics: the challenge of practice recipe” complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

The stacey Matrix Learn-by-doing, see what emerges, Develop common adapt. Ground, compromise or compete. Stacey RD. Strategic Simple decision management and making: organisational Follow the “best dynamics: the challenge of practice recipe” complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

The stacey Matrix Create stability, Learn-by-doing, look for see what opportunities to emerges, Develop common innovate. adapt. Ground, compromise or compete. Stacey RD. Strategic Simple decision management and making: organisational Follow the “best dynamics: the challenge of practice recipe” complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

The stacey Matrix Create stability, Learn-by-doing, look for see what opportunities to emerges, Develop common innovate. adapt. Ground, compromise or compete. Stacey RD. Strategic Simple decision Use expertise, management and making: experiment and organisational Follow the “best dynamics: the build knowledge. challenge of practice recipe” complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

The stacey Matrix Where our team works / plays (we also overlap at the edges) Stacey RD. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity. 3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Adam’s Story \\ ●

Adam’s Story Pitch Initiation Information Information Final Report Gathering 1 Gathering 2

Adam’s Story - Information Gathering 1 Many Questions Blue Sky ... Few Answers Pitch Initiation Information Information Final Report Gathering 1 Gathering 2

Adam’s Story - Information Gathering 1 Many Questions ... Few Answers Pitch Initiation Information Information Final Report Gathering 1 Gathering 2 Photo Credit:Thayne Tuason

Adam’s Story - Information Gathering 1 Blue Sky Sessions Pitch Initiation Information Information Final Report Gathering 1 Gathering 2 Photo Credit:Anastasiaka

Adam’s Story - Multidisciplinary Audit Collaboration Deep Listening Pitch Initiation Information Information Final Report Gathering 1 Gathering 2 Photo Credit:Erich Ferdinand

Adam’s Story - Final Report & Insights…& Conflict Pitch Initiation Information Information Final Report Gathering 1 Gathering 2

Adam’s Story & Lessons Learnt ● ● Rethinking My Work Conflict ● Stability ● Success ●

Strategic Design’s Energy Toolkit Accountability Framework: ● B.R.A.V.I.N.G. (Brene Brown) + Team Charter Top Cover ● Blue Skies Session ● Deep listening ● Empathy + Action = Compassion (Dalai Lama / Jeff ● Weiner) Our Environment (embedding fun & levity) ●

Your STory?

What happens when You’re “in it”?

Let’s WoRkshop this thing!

What Kind of Complexity are you facing?

What has helped keep your energy ‘high’?

...And with all of this, How Do you Deliver on projects and expectations?

Report Back: A Highlight from Each Table

Questions? Queries? Contact! Adam Kebede Miki Stricker-Talbot Social Planner Intrapreneur Integrated Strategic Development Integrated Strategic Development City of Edmonton City of Edmonton 780.508.9374 780.508.9377 adam.kebede@edmonton.ca miki.stricker-talbot@edmonton.ca