Services

At YDT, we use inclusive and regenerative methods, sensemaking, play, scenario planning, systems mapping, and maturity assessments to help individuals, teams, and organizations of any size become more confident in how they create, understand, use, and manage digital experiences, products, and services.

Grounded in the ‘Take CARE to be CALM’ approach, YTD guides critical conversations and learning workshops that help you and your team develop new mindsets, skill sets, and toolsets to better lead and operate within the ambiguity of our ever-changing work environments.

The ‘Take CARE to be CALM’ approach is supported by / organized into three learning pathways: Develop, Dialogue, and Dissension. 

Please review this document for service tiers and pricing information.

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Workshop Facilitation & Teaching

DEVELOP

  • Experience/Journey Mapping: map the front stage and backstage activities for user / persona

  • Digital Ecosystem Mapping: map all tools, platforms, systems

  • Making Space for Listening: learn how to design and hold an inclusive space

  • Digital Maturity Introduction: learn how to choose the right assessment tool and facilitation technique for your organizational design and development needs

  • Scenario Planning Introduction: learn how to use scenario planning to reflect upon and consider digital readiness mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets

  • 6Cs of Community Architecture: discover the people, processes, and technology needed to support community investment

  • Periodic Table of Skills Introduction: learn how to map individual, team/department, and organization skills

  • Making Space for Change: learn how to prepare for individual, team/department, and organization needs in periods of high complexity and change

  • Making Space for Rituals: discover what rituals may encourage a ‘CALM’ approach to digital literacy

  • LEGO Serious Play Intervention: learn how to use LEGO Serious Play to work through complex strategy, communication, and collaboration challenges

  • Aligning Values: learn how to make strategic decisions aligned with individual, team/department, and organization values

  • ‘Take CARE to be CALM’ Introduction: discover how to make the CARE / CALM framework actionable

DIALOGUE

  • Making Space for Digital Emotional Intelligence: learn how to engage in digital spaces

  • Making Space for Agile Ways of Working: learn how to develop and establish agile ways of thinking, practices, and processes

  • Acknowledging Bias Introduction: learn how to consider bias in data and digital readiness

  • Establishing Community Crosswalks: discover how to make your digital ecosystem ‘walkable’

  • Macro Worldbuilding: learn how to develop an understanding of social, technological, environmental, economic, and political trends/drivers impacting your organization and/or community

  • Making Space for Moderation: learn how to consider and prepare for internal/external conflict

  • Periodic Table of Skills Assessment: discover how to use the Periodic Table of Skills to determine what skills need to be developed/hired

  • Making Space for Field Focus Teams: learn how to develop leaderful practices and agency at all levels of the organization

  • Making Space for Empathy Circles: learn how to design and facilitate listening sessions to answer a specific research question, need, or challenge

  • Making Space to Showcase Work: learn how any individual and/ or team/department can begin to develop and make sense of organizational memory

  • Making Space for Rituals, II: discover how to design feedback loops and related practices and processes

DISSENSION

  • Establishing a Community Pact: draft initial expectations for how organizers/members will engage

  • Establishing Community Accountability: draft an initial playbook for how a community will be governed and organizers/members held accountable with grace and compassion

  • Making Space for Coalitions: learn how to build common ground

  • Digital Maturity Assessment: learn how to identify factors, drivers, uncertainties, trends, cycles, and choices aiding in the growth and development of the organization across a range of business process maturity categories and capabilities

  • Making Space for Community Greenspaces: discover how to design communication and collaboration spaces

  • Micro Worldbuilding: learn how to develop understanding and design fit-for-purpose spaces

  • Making Space for Community Management: learn how to consider and prepare for data-informed decision-making and conflict escalation

  • Making Space for Belonging: learn how to make sense of and address where people belong or do not feel as if they belong through the creation of inclusive scaffolding for communication and collaboration

  • Making Space for Citizenship: discover how to develop and deploy co-curation, creation, and design practices and processes

  • Making Space for Supportive Resource Roles: learn how to develop resilient and regenerative practices at all levels of the organization

  • Making Space for Creative Evaluation: discover to design and embed innovative external feedback practices and processes

  • Making Space for Rituals, III: learn how to design practices and processes to assess what ‘success’ and ‘done’ looks like