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5i Strategic Affairs is a global expert in leading and facilitating the strategic planning/decision-making  process in all types of organizations.

It seeks to works with leaders and their teams who face uncertain futures and major strategic dilemmas and who are open to exploring “new ways of knowing” in order to generate and to capture emergent visions, strategies, innovations and exploratory ways to move forward.

5i’s approach is unique in that it prioritizes tapping into a team’s full senses and intuition, its physical, social, emotional and worldly wisdom, and its global consciousness (all of the “warm data”) by using embodied, social presencing techniques. At the same time, it never ignores the value of information gathering and analysis (all of the “hard data”).

5i believes that when "hard" and "warm" data meet in the right 5i "social presencing" context, true emergence is induced and the appropriate "true move" can emerge to mobilize and energize the team forward.

In short, 5i delivers:

  • higher quality decisions;
  • better team engagement, and
  • all in a shorter period of time

In over 30 years of existence, 5i has successfully lead numerous strategic planning/decision-making exercises from launch to completion around the world and trained individuals and facilitated team retreats and workshops in North America, Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Thanks to experience perfected since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,  5i can now offer its exceptional level of both horizontal and vertical training and facilitation anywhere and anytime around the world through on-line delivery to your organization or team members.

Since, March 2020, the beginning of the COVID era, 5i has already delivered:

  • A strategic planning exercise involving over 40 key employees for a major engineering company with 8 different business units which ran from April to October 2020 (on-line).
  • Two complete on-line (with synchronous and asynchronous components) “Strategic Planning & Execution” training programs (with coaching sessions) over five weeks to two groups of individuals from different organizations in diverse, locations across Canada;
  • An intensive, two-day, fully on-line, “9-to-5” “Strategic Planning” workshop to twenty-five employees of the same organization all located in their individual home/office environments
  • Online offerings of a 3-credit "Strategic Management" course at McGill University
  • A strategic planning process to launch a new business entity in the "Circular Economy/Net Zero" space (2021-2022 online)
  • A 3-year strategic plan for a leading LGBTQ2S+ rights organization (2022) (on-line & in-person)
  • A consul-training mandate for the Department of Urban Roads (DUR) in Ghana (2021 in-person)
  • Weekly 90-minutes on-line social presencing practice group sessions (free-of-charge) via Zoom (for more information contact info@5istrategicaffairs.com)
  • Strategic Planning Training for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Baku, Azerbaijan as part of the UNDP Azerbaijan Project "Developing an innovation-driven and sustainable civil society in Azerbaijan" (in-person and virtual) February 2023

Want to learn more about how we might work together?  Please contact us today!


Strategic Assumptions

The Hidden, Yet Powerful Beliefs That Control Every Decision You Make

Why are Strategic Assumptions important?

"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions." - Stephen R. Covey from The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

"People often form big assumptions in their lives and then seldom, if ever, examine them. They're woven into the very fabric of our lives. But only by bringing them into the light can people finally challenge their deepest beliefs and recognize why they're engaging in seemingly contradictory behavior." - Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey from The Real Reason People Won't Change

"The ExCom members - the CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, and head of HR had grown tired of sitting through endless Powerpoint presentations that provided them few opportunities to challenge the business unit's assumptions or influence their strategies." - Michael Mankins from Stop Making Plans

What assumptions are you making about your life, your organization or your career that are fueling your decision-making? Are they well-founded, or totally off-base? How will you know?

How can you be assured that you are making the best decisions in an uncertain world?

This book offers practical strategies for making important decisions with greater clarity and confidence, regardless of the accuracy of your underlying assumptions.

 

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