Design action plans that confront reality, engage resistance, and provide hindsight.
- What to do when there is nothing apparent to do? Where to head when everything seems temporary, uncertain, chaotic, un-clear?
- What to do when there is everything to do? A vast possibility for taking action. Where everything is a priority.
- What to do when impaled on the proverbial horns of a dilemma? Where either choice is equally the right choice?
- Where either choice is equally the wrong choice?
The above conditions challenge us to find a new perspective on things. To rise above the apparent dilemma, to act on some deeper faith that things work out. To clarify our intentions, and take action in the midst of uncertainty. To act out of the reality of what confronts us, rather than acting out of past experience.
Implemento combines a rigorous situation analysis with an opportunity for innovation and ‘making it up.’ These two activities generally reveal a surprising perspective and clarity in the matter. The ‘what we know’ that we did not know we knew. Implemento prompts us to create scenarios for the future based on an action which we believe would be best given the conditions at hand. ?
If it’s a dilemma, we take one side and go with it. Then take the other side. If there are a million choices, we take a couple. If there are no choices, we make up something and run with it.
The trick with Implemento is not to second guess what will happen. Take the plunge. To let our imagination run riot. To take the time to reflect on the sum of our stories and build a comprehensive, multi- faceted, strategy for taking a first step.
Implemento offers the curious possibility of beginning with a molehill of directions and plans, giving that molehill to Implemento’s structures and your imagination for an hour or so, and discovering a mountain of purposes, insights and steps to get on with the right stuff.
Acknowledgements
Education Scotland has licensed the Transition Leadership tools and the Three Horizons toolkit for the specific and sole purpose of improving Scottish Education and the partner services that support it. We are delighted to have partnered the following people and organisations in this venture: Executive Arts Inc.; James R. Ewing, ForthRoad Ltd.; International Futures Forum and Graham Leicester.
