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Canyon Leaping™ 
Canyon Leaping™ - Canyon Leaping is our process for strategy
formulation from the “Vision Side”.
Delivered as rapidly as a one day session, or as a detailed process
involving multiple teams working independently within a large leadership
community.
When asked to look at this picture and describe what the two people
representing a team or entire leadership community are talking about, the
answer is consistent. “They are trying to figure out how to get to the
other side.” Instead, consider that they are already standing on the
Vision Side of their Canyon, and they are talking about what they
accomplished.
Canyon Leaping provides the means for leaders to escape the overwhelming
force of their existing momentum, which is the worst place to plan a new
momentum. Rather than trying to plan from the Ending Side, Canyon Leapers
are guided as they confidently leap to the Vision Side and vividly paint
their Shared Vision of success. So equipped and guided, they are able to
see the strategies and tactics they employed to succeed.
Canyon Leaping™ Session – Global Supply Chain
A global supply chain needed to design a new business model. Eighteen
highly competent subject matter experts were convened. Using our Canyon
Leaping Process for strategy formulation from the Vision Side, they first
decided that if fourteen agreed, all eighteen would support a decision.
Then, after identifying the key stakeholders, they were challenged to
“Leap the Canyon” and paint their Vision of success for each stakeholder.
With significant debate and discussion, and by continuously applying their
decision criteria, they utilized anonymity and simultaneous exchange to
rapidly build consensus. They then wielded this Shared Vision to identify
the “Big Ideas” that got them over their Canyon, the “Baggage” left
behind, high level maps of both the “As Is” and “To Be” processes and a
detailed Action Plan with assignments, dependencies, and timeframes.
Now, realistically, how long would such an effort take with traditional
means? This effort took not 6 ½ months, nor 6 ½ weeks, not even 6 ½ days.
It took 6 ½ hours! And now, four years later, this whole process can be
done virtually, though we certainly wouldn’t need to do everything in a
single, face-to-face 6 ½ hour session.
90-Minute Virtual Project Requirements Session
Twenty-six participants from 15 locations of a global healthcare
organization needed to provide requirements for a major, complex
project, and this needed to be done in a timely manner – the day after
we were asked to facilitate the session. With the project’s consultant,
we set-up the participants for each location, designed the session
agenda, imported draft requirements and loaded background documents for
download, review, and commenting before the session.
During the session, we utilized both full team participation on single
activities, and sub-teams to process through a series of topics,
rotating teams for review and follow-up so that everyone had the chance
to have their say – and know they were heard – on every topic. The
session, scheduled for only 90 minutes wrapped up 10 minutes early!
Canyon Leaping™ is a trademark of Dynamic Directions, Inc.
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