It encourages us and our clients to ask deeper questions before jumping to answers.
AYA is the thinking that sits behind how we work. Rather than beginning with a predetermined solution, AYA creates a structured way of exploring an organisation, team or individual from different perspectives – understanding the environment, the people and relationships within it, and what is required to move forward.
Through AYA, we explore three interconnected dimensions.
Understanding the wider context.
Stepping back to see the landscape you are in more clearly, with a sense of direction for how you want to navigate it and what you want to achieve in it.
What is happening in the environment in which we operate? What forces, opportunities, constraints and perspectives are shaping its choices?
Understanding ourselves.
You are your most important tool. We help you deepen your self-awareness and self-management, so you can act with intention and in line with what matters to you.
What capabilities, behaviours, assumptions and ways of working are helping or hindering progress? What might leaders and teams need to strengthen or change?
Understanding how we work with others.
Relationship is everything. Leaders achieve through others and with others, so we pay attention to the quality and health of your key relationships and networks.
How do relationships, networks and organisational dynamics influence what is possible? Where do relationships need to be strengthened to enable progress?
We work on the three dimensions in relation to the specific issues and questions you bring, keeping three things constantly in focus.
Three attention points are constantly in focus.
Being clear about what you mean, what you want, the perspectives you are taking and the ones you might be missing.
Every conversation ends with action: what you might do next, and the help you can call on.
You bring your whole self to your work, so we pay attention to being in balance.
AYA is not a rigid methodology. It is a way of seeing, questioning and working that helps us understand what is really happening before determining what should happen next.
We think of our work as a walk: we walk with you for a while, for as long as you need, and then you continue on your way with greater clarity, intention and impact.
