Canyon Leaping Collaboration Vastly improve the work of your teams
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John Carroll Canyon Leaping Guide, Strategist, & XLeap Advocate
Acknowledgements Thank you to my review team including colleagues at The Parker Wright Group, Cornell Wright, Karen Whitney, and Blake McMorris, as well as Mick Blasik, Peter Beck, Todd Youngblood, Jim Sullivan, Brayden Carroll, Faraz Ahmed, Tom Klonoski, Stephen Widmer, and Mitch Grossman. Thank you to my Canyon Leaping colleagues and supporters, including Riki Merrick, Paul Dobson, Paul Cormier, Bob Antes, Amy McKinney, Jack Lord, Erik Vonk, Matt Tarkenton, Jeff Amershadian, Tom Rowles, Tom Williams, Tom Noonan, Tom Robertson, Tom Judd, Chris Bogaiges, Witold Zabinski, Joan Knapp, Guy Tessler, Tracy Vance, Bob Kramer, Liz Richards, Jack Gilbert, Dennis Monts, Mike Baer, Genia Kelly-Spencer, Kyle Bryant, John Brinkworth, Dave Jones, Paul Kurtin, Michael Glaza, Bob Farley, Joel Coulter, Connie Sinclar, Al Holbrook, Mike Reeves, John Nofsinger, Dick Ward, Larry White, Brian Peabody, Mike Wien, Brian McGann, Chris Barnes, Jay Moore, Michael O'Bannon, Rick Gilkey, Barbara Maaskant, Marshall Corson, Jay Schaudies, Heather Watson, Barbara McGill, Jon Berger, Henry Whitlow, Tammy Adams Spann, Steve Hinrichs, Scout, Roger Nopper, Amar Challa, Alex McManus, Harry Powell, Jim Seligman, Theresa McPhereson, Andrew Bate, Marty Zobel, Jennifer Bonnett, Peggy Joyner, Bill Miles, and Stephen Schwab. Thank you especially to Jerry Cybulski who taught me how to facilitate strategic planning sessions when we were at IBM, and to Professor Brown Whittington who gave me my first opportunity to author with him a paper on strategic planning. My admiration to Jay Nunamaker, Benn Konsynski, and colleagues who developed the first group decision support system (GDSS)what I now term facilitation tools that became the original IBM TeamFocus. My admiration as well to Neal Bastick, Wolfram Hoegel, and the team who developed the latest version, XLeap. iv
Introduction Canyon Leaping is my alternative to traditional strategic planning for entities that must transform. Instead of planning from where you are, you can use the XLeap platform to provide the safe environment needed for your leadership team to leap your canyon to plan from the Vision Side where you are already successful. Canyon Leaping Collaboration takes what I have learned and packages it with team processes already mapped to XLeap for facilitating everyday collaboration and decision making. This is different. Your teams need different. Teams getting work done more rapidly, accurately, and successfully. A Canyon Leap from what your teams have been doing.
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1. Gain the attention of owners, CEOs, and other leaders by declaring that you can VASTLY improve the work of all your teams using XLeap and team processes templates. v
XLeap – the latest version of facilitation tools for collaboration and decision making. Facilitator – a person who makes an action or process easier.
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This means that human collaboration and decision making occurs in a walled garden with only the prompts posted to the chatbots. The results are imported into the session with group ids citing the source with their own citations. This safe, private environment created by XLeap is further enhanced with anonymity elevating everyone above friction. Taking what I learned from Peter, I have begun updating my “Aging and Your Mind” seminar to turn it into another dynamic and continuously updatable flip book published on Issuu. A small team is helping me to craft the prompts that we are then using with the chatbots. Once completed for my existing and proposed top strategies I will engage a diverse team of SMEs to augment my existing content with what we have generated from the chatbots and then work to vet and distill to consensus text, with citations. This will then be further distilled into the much requested 1-page summary updates.
As stated on the welcome page, Welcome to Aging and Your Mind, a seminar designed to ignite conversations we should all be having with family and friends yet aren't. The existing seminar handouts are available for download. 103
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Both IBM and Deloitte brought John back twice. At IBM to figure out what to do with the original TeamFocus and to facilitate Canyon Leaping strategic planning for the IBM Innovation Center. At Deloitte, he served as the lead instructor to partners and senior managers on client satisfaction and risk. John’s focus now is on expanding the use of XLeap by mapping processes to the platform and teaching others how to facilitate successes, and, of course, to guide more successful Canyon Leaping efforts.
John has been a leader in group processes for quite some time - since his IBM days. He is thoughtful, creative, resourceful and is quick to grasp the needs of his client organizations. I know of none better at the effective leverage of technology to serve small groups or large communities. Several large enterprises and agencies owe a lot of their group creativity and consensus to his efforts. Benn Konsynski Professor Goizueta Business School Emory University
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Canyon Leaping Collaboration Vastly Improve the Work of Your Teams
Canyon Leaping Collaboration
Canyon Leaping is my alternative to traditional strategic planning for entities that must transform. Instead of planning from where they are, the XLeap platform provides the safe environment needed for leadership teams to leap their canyon to plan from the vision side where they are already successful. Canyon Leaping Collaboration takes what I have learned and packages with team processes already mapped to XLeap for facilitating everyday collaboration and decision making. This is different. Your teams need different. Teams getting work done more rapidly, accurately, and successfully. A Canyon Leap from what your teams have been doing.
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