Archive for 'Facilitation in the Workplace' Category
What is Open Space?
Posted by Andrew 9 August 2010
Open Space Intro by Harrison Owen from Harrison Owen on Vimeo.
Want to read a little more? Here’s a quick one-pager.
Can you speak with conviction?
Posted by Andrew 28 June 2010Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.
A tool for provocative contracting…
Posted by Andrew 22 June 2010A quick user’s guide:
Use the scales from 1 to 10 to help gain insight into each of the criteria listed.
Assuming that you are seeking to move towards newness, emergent outcomes and potentially addressing failure, utilise the solutions focus “scaling” technique. Example: “Oh, ok, why did you choose 6 and not 5? What opportunities lay within [...]
Story of a Provocative Facilitator
Posted by Andrew 21 June 2010It’s interesting to reflect on today’s many approaches and tools available for group facilitators. Yet, there is the very relevant question of whether these approaches are making a difference. Here are some initial questions for you to think about regarding the story below. What did Nasreddin actually achieve in his work with this group? What tools [...]
Empty Listening
Posted by Andrew 9 June 2010Last night my wife and I headed off to the Melbourne Playback Theatre industry showcase. It was great!
After the performance, I was chatting with a friend and he said how he had been doing some work around listening and had noticed that there was something different about how Playback Theatre actors seem to “listen”. This got [...]
On the nature of creative problem solving…
Posted by Andrew 8 June 2010A few weeks ago a good friend and very experienced facilitator said to me something that I found both challenging and intriguing: “You need to play more games”. My first reaction was, hang on, you want me to do what? Play more games? Do something that (looks) totally irrelevant to the “work” at hand? Not [...]
Telling the story of a workshop…
Posted by Andrew 6 July 2009Story Of A Workshop
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This is the story of a workshop that I facilitated earlier this year. But its not a story told by me, it’s a story told by one of the workshop participants.
Like they say a picture tells a thousand words…
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.
How can facilitation skills help you be a better manager?
Posted by Andrew 14 May 2007In our survey on effective communication and facilitation skills which we launched last week inviting managers across Melbourne to participate in, one of the questions we asked was “How could improved facilitation skills help you become a more effective manager?”. Two responses which I found interesting were:
“Improved skills could help a manager be more effective [...]
The value of facilitation to organisations?
Posted by Andrew 10 May 2007As a manager or leader in an organisation you might have wondered what the value of facilitation might be to an organisation? On Monday we sent out an invite to managers across Melbourne to be part of a survey exploring effective communication and facilitation skills. The value add of facilitation was one of our questions. With [...]