Archive for February, 2008
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.
Facilitating Focus Groups
Posted by Andrew 17 February 2008Interested in facilitating focus groups? Then don’t miss out on our 1 day program “Facilitating Focus Groups” on Wednesday April 16th.
Focus groups are used in many differing contexts. Whether it is for evaluating projects, developing insight and understanding to complex problems through the use of story or narrative, or doing interactive 360 degree feedback, focus [...]
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 [...]