SOAR: Building Strategic Capacity

SOAR: Building Strategic Capacity CHAPTER EIGHTEEN by Jacqueline M. Stavros and Patricia Malone  SOAR is “a profoundly positive approach that allows an organization to construct its future through collaboration, shared understanding, and a commitment to action” (Stavros and Hinrichs 2009, 3). The SOAR acronym stands for strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. SOAR is best understood as a strengths-based framework with a participatory approach to strategic thinking, planning, and leading “that allows an organization’s stakeholders to co-construct and execute its future through collaboration, shared understanding, and a commitment to action” (3). SOAR is a generative framework that supports and accelerates building strategic capacity, ultimately transforming individuals and organizations (Malone 2010; Stavros 2013)....