Organization Capacity Builders

Coop Di Leu has a long history of contributing to the data that helps organizations. We are responsible for the first-market appearance of nationally recognized research tools, such as Viewfinder, faculty, staff, and student surveys, and the coveted Driving Organizational and Institutional Transformation (DOIT) survey, which resulted in national recognition of several schools' efforts to advance their diversity agendas.

We are still at it!

See below two of our latest assessement projects - Awareness & Readiness for Engagement Audit (AREA), which targets division/area circumstances that would preclude from satisfactory larger scaled climate research activity, and the Inclusive Survey for Innovation, Diversions, and Equity (INSIDE), which examines the nexus between organizations' their publicly declared values for human engagement and the structures people are expected to engage in. Both of these instruments are in beta testing, and YOU can help Coop Di Leu by taking the surveys and allowing us to compile information that will ensure they are both valid and reliable for their purposes. See below, and thank you for helping us help you. :)

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Coop Di Leu Awareness & Readiness for Engagement Audit (AREA) for Transformative Diversity Leadership & Education

Purpose

The AREA is an inquiry experience that helps the respondent envision and identify institutional behaviors that help or hinder transformative and inclusive progress. It targets essential components of infrastructure that propel or paralyze mission-specific productivity, instruction, navigation, and retention benchmarks. A battery of questions helps institutions conceptualize pathways to conversion by identifying causes and assessing the resources available for change. The answers to these questions are revealed in digestible frames and in real time.

Rationale

Many factors influence progress and paralysis. The discovery process rarely yields findings in a linear form or a prioritized display. The discovery effort offers a profound ROI potential when factors relative to infrastructural transformation are found and afforded direct and focused attention. Factors such as human nature, overt and implicit biases, traditions, and community have invisible but tangible impacts on the speed of transformation. These and other aspects affect infrastructure alignments, ultimately dictating who gets recruited, hired, promoted, retained, and dismissed.

The impetus behind the development of the AREA instrument is not based on adverse experiences caused by the historical lack of access experienced by underrepresented groups. Instead, relevant auditing is essential for leadership awareness and empowered decision-making against traditional and well-ingrained processes and procedures that adversely operate against expansion with new talent, technology, and demographics.

Coop Di Leu endeavors to catalyze higher education about the cause and effect of climatic and infrastructural circumstances. We strive to focus on specific components of infrastructural assessment that impact efforts to transform traditional and well-ingrained patterns of thought and the resulting functionality. The AREA represents a truth-seeking method of inquiry in the same way truth was discovered after the windspeed over airplane wings was adequate to produce flight. The technique helps us rethink why organizations behave the way they do, where staple behaviors exist, and how to transform them into futuristic paradigms.

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