❯❯ Our Methodology

The Technology of Participation (ToP®) provides a structured approach to group facilitation and strategic planning. It helps groups move from a diversity of perspectives toward shared priorities and coordinated action.

We don’t start with predetermined recommendations. We create a process through which your leadership examines its circumstances, challenges assumptions, explores possibilities, and reaches informed decisions together.

❯❯ Stage 1: Environmental Scan

Where are we today? A review of plans, financials, and program data, plus facilitated discussions using a SOAR framework: Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results.

❯❯ Stage 2: Practical Vision

What do we want to look like in three to five years? A ToP Practical Vision Workshop helps participants define success and reach consensus on a shared vision.

❯❯ Stage 3: Underlying Contradictions

What is preventing us from achieving our vision? A structured ToP workshop separates symptoms from the underlying obstacles that stand between today and the vision.

❯❯ Stage 4: Strategic Directions

What major actions will move us toward our vision? The group agrees on a manageable number of directions, keeping existing strategies that still work.

❯❯ Stage 5: Focused Implementation

What measurable accomplishments will show progress? Priorities, outcomes, key actions, owners, timelines, and resources, with benchmarks for at least the first three years.