P2T Sensing Exercise
A 15-minute organisational stock-taking
Before strategy, before workshops, before transformation — start with a sense. The P2T Sensing Exercise is a lightweight, fifteen-minute stock-taking that invites your team to look honestly at where your organisation stands today, and to surface the questions worth taking into the Pathways to Transformation Guide.
Transformation does not begin with a plan. It begins with a clear-eyed look at where your organisation actually is — its strengths, its fragilities, the unspoken assumptions about what it is for, and the parts of its work that have quietly drifted out of step with the world around it.
The P2T Sensing Exercise is an entry point. In about fifteen minutes, it walks individuals or small teams through a structured set of prompts drawn from the Pathways to Transformation method: questions about leadership readiness, organisational identity, partnerships, and the relationship between your organisation and the communities it exists to serve. There are no right answers, and there is no score. The point is not to evaluate — it is to sense: to notice where the conversation gets quiet, where it gets heated, and where the honest answer differs from the official one.
The Exercise is designed to be used in three ways:
As an individual reflection — for a leader, board member or senior staff member preparing to open the transformation conversation in their organisation.
As a small-group conversation starter — at the beginning of a leadership retreat, board strategy day, or staff away-day.
As a pulse-check — by an organisation already engaged with the Pathways to Transformation Guide, to track shifts in collective readiness over time.
At the end of the exercise, you will receive a short summary highlighting the P2T stage most relevant to your starting point — and a clear pointer to the chapter of the Guide that takes you further.
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