When Celine used the tool identify your competency pattern she saw her strengths were future possibilities and wholeness. She was known as a determined person, once she had made up her mind, she followed-through. Her training as an engineer helped her in planning and monitoring. Nothing got lost from Celine’s to do list. The downside of being so organized was that she often ran meetings in a very formal way. She noticed that people did not engage. She identified wholeness as her second strong area, because it was easy for her—with her international experience—to see the larger picture, the global context in which she acted. She realized she needed to develop her skills in engagement and collective intelligence. In relation to the challenge she had defined, she applied the assessment tool identify a challenge pattern in order to find the starting points for change. 

The results were clear: despite the fact that all members of the committee would agree on the goal of safe drinking water for all, there was no collective action, no engaging process for better collaboration in place, and no dialogue and learning mechanisms that would truly inspire people to share experience and improve delivery. Everybody was driving his or her own agenda. She identified the dimension of engagement as a starting point and decided she needed to create an engagement process that mirrored the way a future dialogue and coordination platform would work. With the tool action plan she identified selected dimensions and aspects as starting points for the most important steps of a 6 months action plan. With focus on the aspects of connectivity and dialogic quality, she set up interview appointments with the most relevant stakeholders involved, not only in government, but also international NGOs and donor organizations who had projects in water. Keeping the aspects of empowerment and future orientation in mind, she trained herself to make these conversations inspiring and solution-focused. With attention to the aspect of iterative learning she brought the results back into the next meeting of the water committee. She engaged the members into a conversation on how – with attention to the aspect of mutual support – they could improve collective action between the ministries as well as the international implementing agencies. When she suggested creating a dialogue and coordination platform for all relevant stakeholders, they were still skeptical, but not opposed. Celine got the mandate to test the resonance for such an exchange structure with stakeholders.