Archive for 'Facilitation Research' Category
What can Organisations learn from Natural Resource Management?
Posted by Andrew 30 November 2008Having just returned from a fantastic facilitation conference in Bathurst, I’m reflecting on some work I completed a few years ago. This piece of work explored Perspectives on the art of Facilitation: A delphi study of natural resource management facilitators and was published in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. You might ask – what does [...]
The Language of Leadership
Posted by Andrew 7 July 2008Having a wife who is doing her PhD in linguistics sure tunes me in – to language.
The other night – I was watching a movie called “Stranger than Fiction”. If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend it.
Anyway – there was a great scene where the protagonist, on meeting with Dustin Hoffman (who’s playing a Literary [...]
Media Release: Executive Women’s Stories Hold the Key to Business Success
Posted by Andrew 5 May 2008Understanding how and why women succeed in senior management is the focus of a new research project being conducted by the Babel Fish Group and supported by the Gaia Retreat.
Women across Australia in executive and senior managerial positions are being invited to share their stories of business success as part of a unique initiative looking [...]
Mindfulness and Facilitation
Posted by Andrew 29 February 2008I’ve been a fan of Karl Weick’s for a while now and I reckon he’s spot on when he says our struggle for alertness often hinges on our*:
Temptation to normalise unusual events
Temptation to search for confirmation rather than disconfirmation
Temptation to feel one has experienced it all and there are no surprises left
My view: Paying attention [...]
How stories can change social networks
Posted by Andrew 24 February 2008Here’s a paper I’ve just finished exploring the role and change of stories and social networks within organisations. Download a copy here.
Don’t have time to build a great team? Why not steal one?
Posted by Andrew 10 February 2008This from last fridays Australian Financial Review Boss Magazine:
“It looks as if the team had simply gone to lunch, as they had dozens of times before. The difference was that the team leader, a Melbourne-based partner in a major legal firm, was considering a job offer from another firm. She wanted to take her team [...]
Working with story for organisational inquiry
Posted by Andrew 6 February 2008Hot off the press, here is a paper which we’ve just had published in the Appreciative Inquiry Practictioner Journal. It is titled “Fairy Tale – A Form of Organisational Inquiry”. Here’s what it’s about:
Having started working with fairy tales by inviting groups of facilitators to use them as a way of chartering their journeys and [...]
What Freud knew about Facilitation
Posted by Andrew 10 January 2008No I’m not going to go and provide some of the possible humourous quips of taking a Freudian view to facilitation. What I am going to share however is a great quote from Freud which I came across which seems to encapsulate (for me at least) some of the ‘being a facilitator’.
This quote* was with [...]
What’s the value of facilitation?
Posted by Andrew 27 November 2007Early this year we surveyed over 200 managers across Melbourne, inviting them to provide what they’ve found the value of facilitation.
Download our findings here.
Four techniques for working with Story
Posted by Andrew 9 October 2007Many organisations seem to be using story and narrative these days. And with good reason I reckon. The power of working with story is, in my opinion (and shared by others too I think), that story gives you the ability to look into the values and behaviours that people have in their day to day [...]