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Organizational Excellence Resources

Self-serve tools, guides, and learning pathways to help you build stronger teams and better results.

Whether you're starting a new project, managing change, or seeking to enhance team collaboration, these resources are designed to support your growth—on your own schedule. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Toolkits & Worksheets

Change Management

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What:

  • Structured approach to proactively address the impacts of change both at an individual and institutional level.
  • Incorporates strategies for successful transitions and results in the positive adoption of change.

Why:

  • To develop an intentional strategy for all change management activities.
  • To implement successful projects and changes in an organization for sustained impact.
Frameworks and Tools
Change Management at CSU
ADKAR
Accelerating Implementation Management (AIM)
Accelerate’s 8 Step Process
Force Field Analysis
Project Change Triangle
Pragmatic Leadership Model
The SCARF Model
SY Partner Tools

Professional Organizations
Association of Change Management Professionals
The Change Management institute
Network for Change and Continuous Innovation

Collaboration and Innovation

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What:

  • Structured approach to proactively address the impacts of change both at an individual and institutional level.
  • Incorporates strategies for successful transitions and results in the positive adoption of change.

Why:

  • To develop an intentional strategy for all change management activities.
  • To implement successful projects and changes in an organization for sustained impact.
Frameworks and Tools
Conversation Cafes
DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats
Design Thinking
Gamestorming
Golden Circle
Liberating Structures
Mindmapping
ORID
Session Lab
SY Partner Tools

Professional Organizations
International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
Network for Change and Continuous Innovation
The World Cafe

Strategic and Operational Planning

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What: 

  • Define a unit’s mission, vision, goals and priorities for the next five to seven years, taking into account from where an organization is starting, where it wants to be, how it will get there, and how it will measure and monitor progress. 
  • Embed organizational direction in everyday decisions and actions. 
  • Provide an actionable roadmap with assigned responsibilities and timelines.

Why:

  • To provide clarity, direction, and focus for your organization
  • To drive organizational alignment and commitment 
  • To deliver measurable results and outcomes
Frameworks and Tools
Balanced Scorecard
Excellence in Higher Education
Gamestorming
Golden Circle
Guiding Principles
Liberating Structures for Strategy
Liberating Structures
SOAR
Strategic Doing
Strategy Map
Strategic Resource Allocation

Professional Organizations
Network for Change and Continuous Innovation
Society for University and College Planning
Worldwide Performance Excellence Solutions | The KPI Institute
Association for Strategic Planning

Organizational Effectiveness

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What:

  • Create organizational value through people contributing together.
  • Co-creation is made possible through broadening participation and an appropriate level of guidance and structure
  • Foster better outcomes together than could be achieved alone.

Why:

  • To leverage diverse perspectives and experiences and tap into collective wisdom.
  • To engage and empower all in a high-trust environment.
  • To promote an atmosphere of exploration, experimentation and learning agility.
  • To strengthen an organization’s ability to perform.
Frameworks and Tools
AI at CSU
Conversation Cafes
DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats
Design Thinking
Gamestorming
Golden Circle
Liberating Structures
Mindmapping
ORID
Session Lab
SY Partner Tools

Professional Organizations
Network for Change and Continuous Innovation
The World Cafe

Project Management

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What:

  • Apply knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.
  • Structured approach to facilitate the entire project life-cycle:
    1. Initiating
    2. Planning
    3. Executing
    4. Monitoring and Controlling
    5. Closing

Why:

  • To provide common processes for the work, set clear expectations, establish accountability, enable effective decision-making, and therefore reduce unnecessary project delays.
  • To control project scope, a common cause of cost and time over-runs.
  • To monitor progress, anticipate and manage risks, and effectively deliver the project.
Frameworks and Tools
Creative Problem Solving
Free Project Management Templates
Microsoft Planner
Project Management at CSU

Professional Organizations
Project Management Institute | PMI
Network for Change and Continuous Innovation
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