Why ActionMap Is Different
ActionMap combines high-powered process engineering techniques with high energy group sessions.


If you want to change results, you need to change the activities that produce the results, as well as how people think and feel about those activities.  That means process analysis, design and planning, all the way to detailed actions to make change happen.
With scores of major process development projects in our backgrounds,
we take on the toughest business and technical challenges.
Having conducted hundreds of group work sessions, we know that such sessions are among the best opportunities available to accelerate process development projects.
Please see our "FAQ" entry on "Why the ActionMap Toolkit Is Different"
 
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ActionMap uses proven procedures to structure and drive the work.
"Operating the Procedures" and "Facilitating"

 From the point of view of "facilitating":
It's important to know when to direct and when to observe when managing a meeting.
It's critical in group decision making to account for individual roles, sensitivities and interests.
Sometimes major breakthroughs can be produced by having insights about what the client "really" needs.
However, part of the bottleneck in collaborative solutions development and
decision-making is that good facilitators are often hard to schedule, their skills are often difficult to reproduce, and they may have limited experience in process development.

While we bring ample facilitation experience to sessions, our approach is to provide a group with the right tools and procedures, and to assist the group in driving the session with those procedures. We find that this provides all of the benefits of a good facilitator without having to depend on an individual facilitator's personal ability, judgment, energy and attention.  

This makes "operating the procedures" more reliable and scalable than "facilitating" alone, and more appropriate when the results center on fast, effective business/IT process development.
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ActionMap provides a "utility" that your team uses to rapidly create high quality development results.
Subject matter expertise is important, and we encourage clients to include third party experts in sessions when needed.
More important is applying subject matter expertise in the right places. 
We can help you quickly identify the specific areas where expertise is
needed, to help you target your consulting budget.
Most important is the capability to combine, leverage and amplify your team's collaborative solutions development capability, in terms of both knowledge and skills. That's what ActionMap Toolkit sessions provide.
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ActionMap follows a flexible work plan that says "do this" during every minute of a session.
Exploration of alternatives is a necessary part of process development.
Cross-education and sharing of interests and priorities are major foundations
of teamwork and change.
ActionMap Toolkit procedures include these activities automatically while making minute-by-minute use the most valuable resources in the session, which are your team's time, energy and attention.
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ActionMap focuses relentlessly on getting to better action faster.
There are three  "people" results that are critical to producing effective, reliable change action.
Shared understanding, of the current activity, the proposed new activity, and the change plan
Agreement, based on understanding, cross-education, negotiation and conflict resolution
Commitment to action, based on understanding, agreement, assignments, due dates and public statements
The ActionMap Toolkit systematically develops these critical "people" results while at the same time systematically building detailed action plans backed by fully reviewed process models, evaluations and priorities.


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