Sevenfold

04/14/2023

Working on designing a strategy for a new future often invites us into communities and organizations that are facing large and complex challenges, such as workforce development. At Sevenfold, we enjoy addressing the messiness of bringing leaders and organizations in communities together to think differently and design new ways forward.

Butler County, Butler Community College and area school districts and chambers of commerce were involved in effort.

03/14/2023

Our Principal Consultant Brandon Gaide completed Kansas Leadership Center's Advanced Leadership Development Intensive. With this four-day program, Brandon was given the opportunity to learn and practice incorporating transformative techniques into his teaching, training and consulting. Congratulate Brandon in the comments on his continued pursuit of growth.

01/24/2023

What's in the way of your organization making change?
Our work with leaders and teams to design new futures brings excitement into the room (some might even call it hope), fuels curiosity, and inspires enough enthusiasm to see change through.
But without the tools or mechanisms in place to create change, it can feel hopeless.
This article does a great job of suggesting how to navigate change when it feels like quicksand.

What to do when you’ve already committed time, money, or power to make change—and it feels like things are only getting worse.

12/30/2022

Today marks the 2nd birthday of Sevenfold. We're grateful to Ben Hutton for his vision to launch a strategy firm from within Hutton, and to our clients for their insistent belief that there's a better way to grow. Here's to many more years of helping leaders and organizations defy the status quo.

12/28/2022

Tis the season for strategic planning and goal setting. While goals support accountability, are they aligned with your strategic choice?

We believe that strategy is a set of integrated choices. And that in order for your strategy to be effective, it must be clear and shared throughout the organization.

What choices will you make in the new year?

12/05/2022

Jordan has always been about people. This passion led her to become an intentional advocate for Kansas students, ultimately resulting in her being elected vice president of the Kansas Association of School Boards Region Six. This election provides her the opportunity to work alongside the state’s legislators to improve the education experience for students across the state.

11/21/2022

We work differently.
We believe that PEOPLE are an organization's greatest asset. Our work with leaders and organizations is designed to embrace the ability of PEOPLE to foster growth and change

11/16/2022

Before you commit yourself to another round of strategic planning, consider this.

In most organizations, the tool of strategic planning is accepted as gospel. We might scrutinize the use of all our other organizational tools, but conventional strategic planning—including its SWOT analysis, stakeholder interviews, themes, goals & objectives—is almost never challenged.

But conventional strategic planning overlooks a HUGE piece of the puzzle: thinking.

It’s not difficult to update goals and objectives. Nor is it difficult to make operational plans that appear to turn these goals into a reality.

The hard part is figuring out HOW to connect goals with plans.

This is what we call The Missing Middle. The Missing Middle is the part where companies must collectively THINK about HOW to meet a new goal.

All your competitors are updating their goals, too, using the same tool you’re using. So unless you can THINK differently from them, the best you’ll do is keep on pace.

To grow faster than your competitors, what’s needed is a mechanism to create stronger ideas.

Want to grow sales? So do your competitors. Before you make plans, THINK harder about HOW you’ll do it differently.

Want to capture a new market segment? So do your competitors. Before you make plans, THINK harder about HOW you’ll do it differently.

Before you commit to strategic planning, ask: will this tool really make us different than our competitors?

11/03/2022

We are looking to create our next Roundtable with Sevenfold. If you are a leader that is experiencing the weight of leading through complexity and uncertainty - we have designed a space and tools for you to reflect, share, learn and grow with other leaders in similar roles or responsibilities.

RoundtablesRoundtables are a fresh approach to executive peer groups. We help create a place where leaders can be known and belong. From that context, participants collaborate around difficult issues.  This combination of communal belonging + intellectual collaboration is very powerful and contains...

10/10/2022

Welcome to Sevenfold.
We are a strategy consulting firm inside of Hutton, that offers clients and companies a better way to grow by unlocking the intelligence and creativity in people.

We believe the best strategies are not built from an impersonal analytic approach, but from a much more invigorating approach. That's why we built our brand around a paper airplane. It's a symbol of art and science, right-brain and left-brain thinking, imagination and ex*****on.