Purpose Prototyping: Next Steps

Image of wind turbine on the edge of a wind farm as a metaphor for Purpose Driven

Thank you for participating in the Purpose Prototyping Workshop (PPW). We hope that you have found some useful ideas to further both your organisation and its impact.
We also hope that you will want to build on the time that you spent in the workshop and pursue the other ideas within it. If so, the purpose of this webpage is to provide you with additional guidance to get the best from your new whiteboard
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Exploring further options to make a positive difference

Due to time constraints, the PPW is necessarily limited to a subset of the most important areas where you might want to explore new ways in which you can make a positive impact on the planet and its people. However the Purpose Prototyping board has an extensive range of options available for subsequent consideration.
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Aligning with established sustainability/ESG schemes (3)

Some organisations find it helpful to align their efforts with a recognised programme of purpose driven change, wherein they can be formally recognised and benchmarked.
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Aligning with business goals and ways of working (2 & 4)

Whatever your intended focus, or your next prototype, for seeking to make a positive difference in the World, it will inevitably work best, and prove most sustainable, if it is integrated and aligned with your current goals and aspirations. The Strategy Engagement Matrix helps you to do this.
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Identifying and integrating new priorities (5)

Priorities can be drawn from the interactions in the matrix. The criteria for prioritising should be discussed before any voting is conducted, and it may include any combination of impact and ease, such as: customer appeal, staff satisfaction, sustainability, brand impact, cost, difficulty, effort, synergy, etc.
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Strategies to fully engage the wider organisation (6)

Purpose Driven Organizations (PDOs) engage their whole staff, in making a positive difference. It is something they own together. In fact the best PDOs engage beyond that into their larger ecosystem of partners and other stakeholders.
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Ensuring effective motivation (7)

The organisation, its initiatives, and its logic can both appear, and FEEL, dramatically different depending on where you are sat within the organisation. As a result it is far from uncommon for strategies to falter, and for the senior leadership to be totally confused about the lack of motivation in their people. This issue was addressed many years ago by Kurt Lewin using a tool called Force Field Analysis.
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Fixing hidden problems up-front (8)

Often times our subconscious has a better handle on anticipating the future and recognising potential issues than our conscious rational minds. The fact is that all of the possible combinations and permutations are too complex to work out completely logically. But how do we access our subconscious in this way? Turns out we can do it by means of a simple bet.
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Establishing an effective cycle of review and growth (9)

The PPW whiteboard is effectively an Insight Landscape which contains all of the information and decisions that not just fed the start of this journey, but also, over time, fed the subsequent steps and cycles. But that of course depends on you and your team revisiting it, and re-using it, on a regular basis.
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