Archive for October, 2007

To be a better facilitator – Know the sunk cost fallacy

One of the unique disadvantages that we (adult) humans have over animals and young children is the sunk cost fallacy. The sunk cost fallacy is about our (mistaken) tendency to consider in our decision making processes, invested time and efforts put into a project over and above the expected future benefits and gains. How does this apply [...]

What have we been up to lately?

Over the last 3 weeks we’ve been involved in a whole bunch of interesting projects that have included:

Facilitating a 2 day Open Space Technology for a large scientific organisation
Facilitating a 2 day team building retreat for a fast growing consulting start-up company
Travelling out into regional Victoria and collecting neighbourhood noise stories for a community wide engagement around reviewing [...]

Four techniques for working with Story

Many 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 [...]