PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Intention Tracking

WHAT IT DOES: Monthly coaching sessions offer guided inquiry and instill reflective practices. Intentionality and accountability increase across leadership teams, as strategic plans are brought to life.

HOW IT WORKS: Teams are formed to execute work plans and develop new ideas. A monthly stretch meeting is scheduled as a space for participants to instill effective practices, report progress, renew excitement, address obstacles, explore emerging opportunities, assess results, and realign action items with vision and values. Each team elects a leader to facilitate its monthly "stretch meeting" through the year. SEED and the select leader meet by conference call for a coaching session to prepare for each stretch meeting, and again briefly to debreif it.

UNIQUE FEATURES: Programs benefit from an outside, listening ear, and from inquiry that gets them in touch with what they already know. Teams are challenged to keep stretching their imagination to include new possibilities. Progress is tracked against performance markers that are updated monthly.

SAMPLE OF USERS: Applied to all initiatives that engage in Speed Planning. Also used by some programs as a direct follow-through to the action planning done at the end of the SEED Diagnostic.

Read about seven youth development programs that stretched their program designs via Intention Tracking.

"The value of this process has been naming the intention and then adopting a structured process to consider what is needed and hear from a cross-section of staff.  There is a curiosity and questioning that is taking place. New voices are emerging, and people are thinking differently." Summer Search