Our Approach
Biography Work
- Biography work is essentially about interest in the human being and the great mystery of existence we call human life. It is an active practice for developing self-knowledge. It is a search for meaning out of which may arise greater social understanding—deeper, genuine interest in one's fellow man.
- Biography Work is a human development framework based on 7-year development phases. A developmental milestone occurs at the end of each phase.
- One of the goals of Biography Work is self-knowledge. Another goal is to live with consciousness. While doing Biography Work, the individual is able to integrate the thinking, feeling and willing aspects. This helps an individual to understand what is needed to be done and to take responsibility for doing it.
- Biography Work helps people to look at life holistically and understand the meaning as well as the learning behind experiences. It helps them in finding a harmonious balance between their various roles in life. The impact of this is that it enables people to build their perspectives and positively engage with the world at large.
Design Thinking
- Design Thinking provides a solution-based approach to solve problems. It’s useful in tackling complex problems by understanding human needs and re-framing the problem in human centric ways. It helps to adopt a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing.
- While Biography Work helps the human mind find its balance in this chaotic environment, Design thinking provides a map on how to address issues, capture opportunities and build platforms, processes, and spaces to address both talent and customer requirements.
- Design Thinking provides a solution-based approach to solve problems. It’s useful in tackling complex problems by understanding human needs and re-framing the problem in human centric ways. It helps to adopt a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing.
- It revolves around a deep interest in developing an understanding of the people for whom we’re designing services. It helps us observe and develop empathy with the target user. Design Thinking helps us in the process of questioning: questioning the problem, questioning the assumptions, and questioning the implications.
- Design Thinking is extremely useful in tackling problems that are ill-defined or unknown, by re-framing the problem in human-centric ways, creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and adopting a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing. It also involves ongoing experimentation: sketching, prototyping, testing, and trying out concepts and ideas
A consulting company that enables people in organizations to be the best version of themselves.
Our Approach
Our Approach
Design Thinking
- Design thinking provides a map on how to address issues, capture opportunities and build platforms, processes, and spaces to address both talent and customer requirements.
- Design Thinking provides a solution-based approach to solve problems. It’s useful in tackling complex problems by understanding human needs and re-framing the problem in human centric ways. It helps to adopt a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing.
- It revolves around a deep interest in developing an understanding of the people for whom we’re designing services. It helps us observe and develop empathy with the target user. Design Thinking helps us in the process of questioning: questioning the problem, questioning the assumptions, and questioning the implications.
- Design Thinking is extremely useful in tackling problems that are ill-defined or unknown, by re-framing the problem in human-centric ways, creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and adopting a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing. It also involves ongoing experimentation: sketching, prototyping, testing, and trying out concepts and ideas
Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
At its very core, AI is about the search for the best in people, their organizations, and the strengths-filled, opportunity-rich world around them. AI is not so much a shift in the methods and models of organizational change, rather AI is a fundamental shift in the perspective with respective to the change process to ‘see’ the wholeness of the human system and to “inquire” into that system’s strengths, possibilities, and successes.
AI advocates collective inquiry into the best of what is, in order to imagine what could be, followed by collective design of a desired future state that is compelling and thus, does not require the use of incentives, coercion or persuasion for planned change to occur.
The five principles of AI are:
- 1. The constructionist principle looks at what we believe to be true determines what we do, and thought and action emerge from relationships. Through the language and discourse of day to day interactions, people co-construct the organizations they inhabit. The purpose of inquiry is to stimulate new ideas, stories and images that generate new possibilities for action.
- 2. The principle of simultaneity focuses on how we inquire into human systems we change them and the seeds of change, the things people think and talk about, what they discover and learn, are implicit in the very first questions asked. Questions are never neutral, they are fateful, and social systems move in the direction of the questions they most persistently and passionately discuss.
- 3. The poetic principle proposes that organizational life is expressed in the stories people tell each other every day, and the story of the organization is constantly being co-authored. The words and topics chosen for inquiry have an impact far beyond just the words themselves. They invoke sentiments, understandings, and worlds of meaning. In all phases of the inquiry effort is put into using words that point to, inspire the best in people.
- 4. The anticipatory principle posits that what we do today is guided by our image of the future. Human systems are forever projecting ahead of themselves a horizon of expectation that brings the future powerfully into the present as a mobilizing agent.
- 5. The positive principle proposes that momentum and sustainable change requires positive affect and social bonding. Sentiments like hope, excitement, inspiration, camaraderie and joy increase creativity, openness to new ideas and people, and cognitive flexibility.
- 2. The principle of simultaneity focuses on how we inquire into human systems we change them and the seeds of change, the things people think and talk about, what they discover and learn, are implicit in the very first questions asked. Questions are never neutral, they are fateful, and social systems move in the direction of the questions they most persistently and passionately discuss.
Appreciative Inquiry
1. Define – What is the topic of inquiry? – It is important to define the overall focus of the inquiry (what the system wants more of). Definition is used to clarify the area of work to be considered.
2. Discover – Appreciating the best of ‘what is’ – Discovery is based on a dialogue, as a way of finding ‘what works’. It rediscovers and remembers the organization or community’s successes, strengths and periods of excellence.
3. Dream – Imagining ‘what could be’ – Imagining uses past achievements and successes identified in the discovery phase to imagine new possibilities and envisage a preferred future.
4. Design – Determining ‘what should be’ – Design brings together the stories from discovery with the imagination and creativity from dream.
5. Deliver/Destiny – Creating ‘what will be’ – The fifth stage in the 5Ds process identifies how the design is delivered, and how it’s embedded into groups, communities and organizations.
