Discussion Notes by Monica Lee

2025-02-19 19:30:00 UTC

Product roadmap: complex and academic language: need a crisper connection on how these things relate and fewer frameworks
Capacity Building Channels? confusion
Different Portfolios connect to strategy? lack of clarity
IMPACT: concrete data on young learners and adult learners -exps and outcomes
Return back to our Capacity 3 yr vision and then org strategt

2025-02-19 19:30:30 UTC

I'd love to dig into the strategy probing questions in 1:1s and as a group -- I want to understand what's underneath this high level rating for each of us.

ashleymcham — 2025-02-19 19:30:53 UTC

I have questions about how we went up in people being proud to work at Transcend and then would not recommend it as a place to work. Not sure how you can be proud of a place that you would not recommend. And then on top of that people could see themselves here 2 years from now.

2025-02-19 19:33:08 UTC

Blue sky/change anything:

- leadership dev in every DJ

-internal leadership dev for school design partners

monica633 — 2025-02-19 19:33:25 UTC

We are slightly above org avg. (66) but I do wonder if this has to do with a lack of clarity around growth pathways

2025-02-19 19:33:37 UTC

How are we ensuring the vision is aligned and incorporated throughout the org? "Integration" has been a key word. Do we feel integration is maximized throughout the org?
Political/policy implications on strategy and DEI work.
Feel most connected to broader purpose through individual and org storytelling.

monica633 — 2025-02-19 19:34:19 UTC

Wondering: Are people unclear about org strategy or about how our team fits into that strategy/supports with achieving our orgs strategic goals

2025-02-19 19:34:36 UTC

Curious about what contributes to understanding of strategic direction. With mixed results, what making folks clear? unclear? I wonder if we can tease out the org vision vs our specific team vision with more clarity

2025-02-19 19:35:25 UTC

I want to dig into the f/u questions here with our team and/or in 1:1s and then come back together to see if this sparks changes we may want to make together. This feels very important.

sarahnager — 2025-02-19 19:35:52 UTC

I was out when we administered this, but the difference between pride and understanding of strategic direction actually makes sense to me. Broadly, we all feel like the org is doing admirable work. But this is a team that has gone through a lot of change and the changes relate directly to our overall strategy. That is not a bad thing--it just makes sense to me that this team might feel more ambiguity than say, someone on a portfolio whose work is largely the same as last year

ashleymcham — 2025-02-19 19:35:57 UTC

This making me think about the comments around POC leaving the org. How do the numbers stack up? What are our attrition rates by race, ethnicity, age, gender, etc.?

2025-02-19 19:36:02 UTC

Wondering: for prof dev growth: could we have more rituals about our goals and competencies. E.g. I'd love to know everyone's goals on the Capacity team. Would love some sort of 360 survey on my competencies/goals from folks I work closely with.....thought of creating that as part of 2x2 process but don't want to not follow Transcends way of doing annual review/2x2

2025-02-19 19:36:31 UTC

PD: LD, Session design, facilitation, and project management
Not always clear on pathways within the org and what that means for allocation, salary, etc.

ashleymcham — 2025-02-19 19:36:46 UTC

Yaaaaay!

2025-02-19 19:37:11 UTC

More protocols: equity of voice and meeting needs of diff learning styles in spaces

LGBTQ2 group

monica633 — 2025-02-19 19:37:49 UTC

Did people conflate disagreement with our strategic direction with understanding of it? Maybe people get it but don't necessarily agree its the right direction?

2025-02-19 19:38:04 UTC

I also wonder if people understand the strategy but don't understand the why of the strategic direction.

2025-02-19 19:38:18 UTC

Curious if feeling like there isn't transparency into the decision-making process about how strategy changes is part of lack of clarity

2025-02-19 19:40:28 UTC

I wonder if this has something to do with people not being sure about the world of education.