SKC facilitates strategic conversations that are interactive, rooted, and, dare-we-say, enjoyable. They help get you to where you need to be… even if you don’t know what your exact destination is yet.

Let us lead your organization through an SKC Clarity Session.

This interactive conversation process will help with strategic planning, board direction, and program ideation.

We’ll explore:

  • What is — context and discussing the complexity

  • What if — new ideas and possibilities

  • What works — what is realistic, what achieves the best outcomes?

  • What next — how do we move forward?

The discussions will be realistic, rooted in the complexity of our world, and avoid simplistic solutions.

We have developed a set of sequential tools to help you have the discussions you need to clarify your goals, plans, and aspirations.

The sessions are one to three days long, and take an assets-based approach. We want to look at what’s strong, not just what’s wrong. These conversations are lively, interactive, and often old school (flipcharts, breakout groups, unique in-person tools).

We take a human-first approach. A.I. can do many things, but it can’t:

  • Read a room

  • Navigate organizational politics & make nuanced judgment calls

  • Facilitate complex discussions

Contact us to discuss a Clarity Session for your organization.

Sean Kelly and SKC associates will guide you through ‘6 Cs’, six sequential discussion areas with tailored activities to focus the conversations on:

Context. Conjecture. Constraints. Choices. Connections. Convergence.

The sessions use our own unique discussion tools, such as:

S.A.G.E. conversations: Situate. Articulate. Generate. Engage.

C.O.I.N. exercise: Constraints. Opportunities. Improvements. New ideas.

(We like mnemonic devices! They help give structure and form to the discussions.)

3-N’s exercise: What are you doing for Nostalgic reasons? What is Noteworthy? Where are you a No-Show?

We are also experienced in using other traditional strategic planning tools such as SWOT, PESTEL, Problem & Solutions Tree analysis, Parallel Thinking, NOISE analysis, etc.