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STRATEGIC PLANNING / BETTER STILL TOOLKIT—CHART THE FUTURE TOGETHER
BETTER STILL TEAMWORK TOOLKIT®

Chart the Future Together

Elicit smart thinking and make excellent decisions together, as you design your organization’s next era of success.

A powerful pathway and 14 tools to shape the future

It’s a volatile time. You and your fellow leaders must determine where to take your organization, team, or initiative next, and where after that. To get there, you’ll need to generate smart thinking and make excellent decisions, together.

Given the stakes, it’s wise to have support as you and your colleagues think, analyze, and decide your future course. Your ally is this Better Still Teamwork Toolkit, a strategic-planning process with a six-phase digital pathway and 14 powerful step-by-step tools.

The pathway

Better Still Chart the Future Together six-phase pathway

Chart the Future Together provides a facilitator and project team with six smart, well-organized, easy-to-follow phases:

PREPARE

ASK STRATEGIC QUESTIONS

IDENTIFY THE FACTS

ANALYZE THE FACTS AND CONSIDER SCENARIOS

GENERATE OPTIONS AND EXAMINE PROS & CONS

DECIDE AND COMMUNICATE

Each phase provides specific activities for the facilitator to lead with team members or sponsoring executives, supported by two or more Better Still Tools. The Chart the Future Together toolkit will support you as you and your colleagues reinvent or renew the entire organization, create new directions for a team, or plan an initiative.

The toolkit

Your Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Chart the Future Together provides everything you’ll need to successfully facilitate all six phases of the pathway, as you chart your future together.

  • An easy-to-follow orientation and onboarding experience
  • A high-level overview of the six-phase pathway
  • Step-by-step instructions for every phase
  • Time estimates and activity plans
  • Better Still Tools to use in each phase, with introductory videos
  • Clear outcomes for each phase
  • An easy-access library of 14 Better Still Tools and more

Here’s a sampler of what’s inside Chart the Future Together:

Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Chart the Future Together Tool Plan Example

Onboarding and valuable context

Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Chart the Future Together Tool Plan Example

At-a-glance pathway overview

Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Chart the Future Together Tool Plan Example

Instructions for every phase

Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Chart the Future Together Tool Plan Example

Recommended tools in each phase

Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Chart the Future Together Tool Plan Example

Tool library with 14 Better Still Tools

The tools

As you think and decide together across the six phases, you’ll be supported by these 14 Better Still Tools:

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Agree on the intention and process of what you’re discussing together.

Better Still Tool 2.5 How to Advocate to Create Better ideas image

Influence others in a way that brings the best ideas forward.

Better Still Tool 2.6 How to Listen Well image

Improve joint thinking by becoming a powerful, purposeful listener.

Better Still Tool 2.7 How to Ask Questions to Deepen Understanding image

Enrich dialogue by asking questions that promote better thinking.

Better Still Tool 3.1 How to Strengthen Decision-Making with Strategic Questions image

Become smarter together with 25 strategic questions.

Better Still Tool 3.2 How to Figure Out What You're Deciding image

Reach agreement about what you’re trying to decide together, and why.

Better Still Tool 3.3 How to Use Relevant Facts to Tackle Your Problem image

Understand the facts of the situation.

Better Still Tool 3.4 How to Create and Explore Multiple Scenarios image

Become smart together about what might happen, so you’re better prepared to respond.

Better Still Tool 3.5 How to Generate Great Options image

Develop excellent and energizing options together.

Better Still Tool 3.6 How to Weigh Benefits and Risks When You Make a Decision image

Understand the pros and cons before you decide.

Better Still Tool 3.7 How to Transform an Impasse image

Find a path forward together if you should become stuck.

Better Still Tool 3.8 How to Choose the Best Decision-Making Process image

Determine who will make the decision, and how.

Better Still Tool 3.9 How to Communicate Your Decision image

Communicate your decision so others can support and take action on it.

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Communicate smart requests that result in effective action.

Every Better Still Tool includes:

  • A short video introduction
  • Easy-to-follow scripts or steps—many with examples
  • Tips
  • A quick quiz to lock in new habits
  • Information about skill sets each tool supports
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What’s in a Better Still Tool?

This is a time to get smart, together.

Mapping the smartest, most sustainable way forward requires intelligent and wise contributions from the people who know your organization best, as well as from those whose views challenge conventional thinking. Especially in a volatile, complex, fast-moving world, the roadmap to your organization’s or team’s next era of success calls for outstanding thinking, communication, and collaboration from multiple contributors.

Call on the Chart the Future Together toolkit to help you.

Subscribe now, and receive:

Questions? Please contact us to learn more.

On-demand digital access to the Chart the Future Together six-phase pathway, with step-by-step instructions

Access to 14 Better Still tools, available for mobile devices, tablets, and desktops 

An online onboarding experience to help you gain value quickly, and maximize the toolkit’s use through your subscription

Regular suggestions from Better Still about how and when to use your toolkit to gain the most benefit from it

 $525 per subscriber for a 12-month subscription, billed annually

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