Strategy tools and guidance for changemaking teams
Navigate change. Together.
Productive teams are often buried in emails, chats, and offline conversations, and too overwhelmed with the day-to-day to focus on strategy and coordination.
Team Earth provides sensible guidance, frameworks, and tools to translate ongoing strategy into action.
Is strategy making you talk and walk in circles?
Most teams’ approaches to a changing landscape inadvertently support:
...too many meetings, wandering email threads, waterfall group chats, strategy confined to just a few brains, ineffective messaging to stakeholders, and general confusion.
By the end of the day, you feel like you’ve just been putting out fires.
We get it. Work with us and discover new paths towards the impact you are seeking.
When we work together, we get to know you, your team, your processes, and dig deep.
Identify and invite in stakeholders (this includes your team!) to survey the landscape and learn more about collaborating on strategy.
You’ll come away with next steps, keeping one eye on the horizon, so you’re prepared to respond rather than react to change.
When you translate ongoing strategy into action, together...
...you have more time because you have fewer meetings and you’re spending less time explaining strategy in order to motivate team members.
...you’re more effective because you’ve prioritized your team’s actions and know the next steps to take. You know who to talk with, and how.
...and you’re less stressed because you’re on track with the organization’s 5-year plan (remember that document?) and you’re showing impact that funders or evaluators can get excited about.
In this free 30 minute call, we put every minute to use and talk teams, strategy, goals, and actions. You’ll come away with 3 key insights or clear next steps.
Let's work together:
Schedule a sketch-up call
Talk through the strategic challenges you are facing with one of our guides. Glean three insights or next steps just for you and your team.
Decide on an approach
Bring clarity and action to your team’s vision and goals. Most clients choose frameworks that focus on Network Engagement, Adaptive Strategy, or Community-Centered Design.
Catalyze strategic action
Make our team part of yours with a 3-week, 6-week or 12-week session. Increase understanding, motivate your team, and amplify your impact.
Clients we've worked with
Project Snapshots
Care Coordination in Colorado
Thriving Resilient Communities Map
CO Climate Action Project
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Oregon Coalition for Living Well with Serious Illness
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Navigate Change. Together.
Many of us are motivated to create better futures. But projects lack resources and people are flooded with information. Our current coordination systems create power imbalances which cause misaligned incentives, wasted resources, and success to the successful.
Team Earth exists to help teams get unstuck and expand our collaborative capacity to put strategy into action. We use teaming and a systems approach to help people make sense of and act on wicked problems that threaten human and planetary health. Stay tuned for our collaborative strategy software that will allow more teams to become strategic changemakers.
Our Coordinates
We are a heads-up, open-hearted cooperative that works with humans and tech to support strategic change.
This is how we navigate.
Context is key.
Ecology is another word for “context”. We understand that things taken out of context lead to things tipping out of balance. The world around us informs us. Supporting healthy and strategic collaboration across teams is where we begin.
Natural systems ground our design and process work.
Complex and resilient natural systems activate our understanding of human collaboration and sensemaking. Systems break if only data or only feelings are used for navigation. Wisdom and empathy inform each other. We exist to support all of Team Earth, especially the most vulnerable.
Data is a commons.
In information space, data is the landscape. Our common ground. Information is a shared resource that calls for both generous interoperability and robust security. We empower Team Earth citizen members to make decisions about how our data commons is stewarded.
Cooperation is a practice.
Natural systems interact with other adaptive and emergent systems. We are a co-op that nourishes aligned projects, towards the common health of people and our planet. We embed skills for effective cooperative practice into our learning processes and tool design.
Global problems are often collaboration problems.
What is good locally often causes harm elsewhere, and never more than in our networked and interdependent world. If we can see a few steps out, we might avoid some of the unintended consequences that have so many changemaking projects feeling stuck.
Simple rules help coordination.
Find your context, explore your landscape, pool your strategic knowledge. Act. Repeat. Do this lots, with many collaborators, or do this slowly and extensively with just a few. But do it. The process of navigation is critical to getting us out of the messes we have co-created together.
Stay in the loop
- Fresh Project Snapshots and success stories
- Hand-picked articles from strategy, systems, and climate thought leaders
- Need-to-know updates on our Compass, a tool for collaborative strategy
