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SOAR is a positive affirmative process that generates new ideas that will deliver sustainable results.
SOAR asks:
What STRENGTHS we can build on?
What are the OPPORTUNITIES that our stakeholders are asking for?
What do we care deeply about? What are our ASPIRATIONS?
What do we need to do to get the RESULTS and how will we recognise our success?
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Managers, Change Agents
and Executive Coaches
What you learn in a single day
can change everything.
SOAR stands for:
Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results.
SOAR is a strategic thinking, strategy formulation, and planning framework that allows an organisation to construct its future through collaboration among its stakeholders.
It is an appreciative alternative to SWOT
4 Workshops
Sydney July 20th
Melbourne July 22nd
Canberra July 26th
Brisbane July 28th
Jackie Stavros
In Australia. You can not miss out!
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Overview
SOAR is an exciting strengths-based model that facilitates positive change.
This SOAR approach puts something powerful and full of life deep inside the heart of business growth and organisational change.
Learning how to SOAR will enable everyone interested in leading with hope and optimism to lead successful and sustainable change initiatives.
Participants in this workshop will learn how they and their organisations can soar to great heights winning the future through the highest engagement of human strengths.
Getting all on board
The SOAR framework and its approach build strength on strength in a practical proactive way. Strengths-based strategy puts right brain and left brain together with a whole brain-whole system approach for planning in business, government, education and non-governmental organisations.
Create energy
You will learn to use the appreciative SOAR approach which will generate the energy & creativity required to achieve innovative sustainable outcomes
Program Agenda
Morning
- Creating Strategic Inquiry with Appreciative Intent: Integrating the Theory and Practice of Appreciative Inquiry and Strategy
- How SOAR Framework Emerged
- Introduction to SOAR and Positive Strategy
- SOAR Illustrations: For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Government Organisations
- The Art of Strategic Inquiry
Afternoon
- SOAR and the “5-I” Approach
- Strategic Impact: Alignment of Values, Vision, Mission and Strategy
- Quick SOAR: Creating a Strategy
- SOAR Applications: strategy, strategic planning, team building, coaching, leadership development, and strategic summits
- Putting it all Together: A Professional Global Service Firm’s Story
- The Sustainable Elements of SOAR
Jackie Stavros is the co-creator of SOAR, a strengths-based approach to building strategic capacity and co-author of the "Thin Book of SOAR, The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, and Dynamic Relationships.
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Practical Tools
This workshop about SOAR and how to use it will equip you with practical tools that will help you and your organisation or community move in the direction of its strengths to make a positive impact!
Participants will learn and experience the methodology and come to understand the principles that underlie Appreciative Inquiry and SOAR.
In particular Jackie will explain and demonstrate the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a person's or system's capacity to come alive to the positive potential and possibility within.
SOAR Applications:
Strategy, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Coaching, Leadership Development, and Strategic Summits
Jackie StavrosJackie has had extensive experience both teaching (Program Chair and Associate Professor, College of Management, Lawrence Technological University) and working with individuals, teams, divisions and organisations in the development of strategy, strategic planning, organisational development and change, marketing, teamwork and leadership.
Jackie is co-author of the Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, The Thin Book of SOAR (each participant will get a copy), and Dynamic Relationships, which is about unleashing the power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living.
At the conclusion of the workshop –Participants are invited to stay and informallychat with Jackie till about 6.00 pm
Jackie’s Bio
What is Strategy?It is the positioning of an organisation for how to best sustain a competitive advantage. It involves making choices about:
- Which industries (markets) to participate in
- What products/services to offer
- How to integrate functional decisions into a coordinated strategy
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The powerful combination found within SOAR of traditional strategic planning and Appreciative Inquiry has created a way for organisations to tap into new levels of strategic opportunity. Organisations have begun to discover that the old strategic planning methods of focusing on the negative aspects of the business lead to a downward spiral of countermeasures, instead of the upward spiral of potential opportunities and growth provided by SOAR.
The motivational aspects of SOAR are also incredibly powerful, as employees and stakeholders find their voices resonating in the future plans of the organisation. This makes implementation work. It would be a mistake to underestimate the potential of SOAR to dramatically change the strategic planning landscape as we know it.
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Where: NSWTF Conference Centre 37 Reservoir St Surry Hills (edge of the city)
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Program Time Table
Arrival time at 8.30 am
Workshops start 9.00 am finish 5.00pm
Morning tea, Lunch and Afternoon tea included
Price:
Standard fee $660
Early Bird (before July 12th) $495
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Where: Ether Conference Centre 265 - 285 Little Bourke St
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Program Time Table
Arrival time at 8.30 am
Workshops start 9.00 am finish 5.00pm
Morning tea, Lunch and Afternoon tea included
Price:
Standard fee $660
Early Bird (before July 12th) $495
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Where: Forrest Hotel Conference Rooms 30 National Circuit Forrest Canberra
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Program Time Table
Arrival time at 8.30 am
Workshops start 9.00 am finish 5.00pm
Morning tea, Lunch and Afternoon tea included
Price:
Standard fee $660
Early Bird (before July 12th) $495
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Where: AIM Management House Cnr Boundary and Rosa Streets Spring Hill Brisbane
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Program Time Table
Arrival time at 8.30 am
Workshops start 9.00 am finish 5.00pm
Morning tea, Lunch and Afternoon tea included
Price:
Standard fee $660
Early Bird (before July 12th) $495
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SOAR to Greatness with Jackie Stavros 2010 Workshop
