Archive for September, 2007

How to have a focussed team conversation

Posted by Andrew 30 September 2007

One powerful and yet simple model for having productive focused conversations with your team is through the Technology of Participations’ ORID model. ORID is an acronym which stands for:

O- Objective: Get the facts
R – Reflective: Acknowledge the feelings
I – Interpretative: What does this mean for us as a group?
D – Decisional: What [...]

 

Facilitator Fairy Tales

Posted by Andrew 25 September 2007

Many of you might remember how, as kids, you learnt about the world through fairy tales.
What better way might there be then to learn about facilitation through facilitator fairy tales?
Simon Kneebone and I started collecting facilitator fairy tales at the Australian Facilitator Network conference held in Geelong, Victoria, November 2006. With the great interest and [...]

 

Free Teleseminar on Facilitator Archetypes and Fairy Tales

Posted by Andrew 18 September 2007

On Wednesday 25th Simon Kneebone and I have been invited to be part of a Leading Lights teleseminar exploring our work around facilitator archetypes and the use of fairy tales.
The session will explore:

A new archetype model for reflection on facilitation practice based on Angeles Arriens four fold way
The results from a global survey on this [...]

 

Perspectives on the art of facilitation

Posted by Andrew 16 September 2007

A couple of years ago I conducted an Australian wide Delphi study of facilitation within an Natural Resource Management setting. The good news is that our publication has finally been published in the Australian Journal of Environmental Management. You can download a copy from our website: here
A clip from the abstract:

A Delphi survey technique was [...]

 

Want to learn to Juggle?

Posted by Andrew 11 September 2007

With juggling being a great activity for many different purposes, I have been working on a system to get people to learn juggling even quicker. This has been based on my own experience teaching people to juggle as well as some great resources like:

More balls than hands: Juggling your way to success by learning to [...]

 

Esool Gnah – A story about leadership

Posted by Andrew 6 September 2007

Some time back, I collected this great fairy tale from a very creative group of facilitators. I’ve mentioned before about the power of fairy tale as a way of working with story. Fairy tale is a simple story genre. People just get it. Not much explaining to do. A fairy tale has a beginning and an [...]