Experiential Growth Method
Chapter 4 - Experiential Growth Method®
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Welcome to the Experiential Growth Method® page
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Experiential Growth Method®
- Experiential: enhance the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments.
- Growth: Growth here is not about economic growth in the neoliberal sense, but about individual and social value creation.
- Method: because “Nothing is as practical as a good theory,” and “the best way to understand something is to try to change it” (credited to Kurt Lewin - Greenwood & Levin, 1998).
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The Experiential Growth Method® is not a rigid structure. On the contrary, it's designed to be a practical tool that helps you identify relationships, discern systems, and effectively manage real flows.
The core question we want to help you with the Experiential Growth Method® is: How can you act today to have the best chance that your practices of tomorrow are sustainable?
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The Experiential Growth Method® in plain words:
- combine
- thinking
- & doing.
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Growth in the Experiential Growth Method® is not so much an economic as an anthropological concept.
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| Toon Hermans, a famous Dutch comedian, once said: "I can only start improvising if my text is entirely written". |
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By analogy, the Experiential Growth Method® provide a scaffold on which you can start with your strategic value realisation.
Practice has always been divided between thinking and doing, emphasising one over the other. For us, business practice is a verb connecting both, summed up in a single sentence:
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The Experiential Growth Method® is easy:
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The Experiential Growth Method® provides you with insights into three distinct steps:
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- First, patterns that steer the interests you have.
- We co-create the basic patterns for growth: long-term thinking, ethical decision-making and innovative- and sustainable (business) model creation in the spirit of the Environmental, Social and Governance goals.
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- Second, principles that arise from the values you hold.
- We provide knowledge about the principles, which are the result of your practices. We make relational thinking for you more accessible, to make clear to you what you cannot see but can experience. EGM® offers you insight into the structure – the scaffolding – on which your relational system thrives.
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- Third, human-based processes you create from the goals you have.
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| Even in strategy, we must look for principle-based models that are empirically adequate. |
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Deep dive
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Patterns: created by 27 action fields
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The primary image of the Experiential Growth Method® is a scaffold. It is what you see and what you experiences.
Your actions ARE the relationships between core elements.
The Experiential Growth Method® defines 27 action fields and draws the relationship we experience as patterns between them.
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Principles: how to think about growth
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When we act, the present situation confines us. Therefore, we must tend to the relationships between ideas, people, teams, or worldviews and bridge across contexts.
We are convinced that we must work here and now with the future in mind.
Therefore, we need expert knowledge, even if it is stationary in an evolving world and subject to progressive insight.
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Processes, who are - by definition - human-based
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You cannot realise the next step in a process without the current step:
The only purpose of the current process step is the success of the next step.
Humans are great at creativity, analysing, decision making and action. These are the four essential elements of every process.
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