Intent before invent.
Get clear about what matters before falling in love with a solution.
Innovation powered by SHIFT
A way to think.
A way forward.
Do More Good is the professional development platform. SHIFT is the adaptive method that supports our work in innovation and culture change.
Choose the gear your situation needs
Progress takes more than a good idea.
Sometimes you need to see a situation differently. Sometimes you need to listen before you act. Sometimes the most useful thing is to make an idea tangible and try it.
SHIFT gives you five gears to move between. You can return to listening when an experiment changes your understanding, or test something small while the bigger direction is still emerging.
See
Notice what is changing. Look beyond the familiar explanation and make your assumptions visible.
Hear
Listen to the people closest to the work and the people you serve. Let their experience change the question.
Imagine
Explore what could be. Bring different perspectives together and make room for possibilities worth testing.
Forge
Make an idea tangible. Try a small, useful experiment and learn from what happens.
Transform
Help the useful change take root. Build the capability, ownership and habits to sustain it.
Direction. Capability. Conditions.
Read the terrain.
Choose your gear.
Strategy helps you choose a direction. Your people and capabilities supply the power. SHIFT helps you adapt how you apply that power to the conditions around you. Seeing and hearing can also reveal a better direction.
At the end of a piece of work, ask: should we stay in this gear, upshift, downshift or revisit where we are heading? Use what you have learned to choose the next useful action.
The mindsets underneath
Five Imaginactions™.
Created by Jason Borowicz, these mindsets make space for intent, learning, curiosity, purposeful play and alignment.
Invite failure to dinner.
Make it possible to test, learn and talk honestly about what did not work.
Go where others won’t and find what they don’t.
Let curiosity take you beyond the familiar voices and explanations.
A team at play wins the day.
Use purposeful exploration and safe challenge to create possibilities together.
Align to accelerate.
Build shared meaning so people can act together with clearer intent.