Archive for October, 2008
What do your group conversations look like? Do you need a facilitator?
Posted by Andrew 31 October 2008This network map shows a natural (unfacilitated) conversation taking place. I mapped this conversation during a recent highly successful Open Space meeting I facilitated. This social network analysis map brings up some key features.
The links represents who spoke after who. For example – Bill spoke only after both John and Jane. The size of the [...]
No Time? Try Collaborating
Posted by Andrew 31 October 2008This is a great example of the power of collaboration.
With blog posting taking time – it doesn’t get any better than when you find a chance to work collaboratively and have someone else write a blog post for you.
And thanks to Viv – here’s one that came to fruition yesterday – about Fireworks!
What can you do with story and narrative approaches?
Posted by Andrew 27 October 2008In a great Open Space session last week at the ODA conference, Ian Shrives helped to bring forward a great list of benefits and ways of positioning working with story. Here’s the listing, with a few of our own added, of the power of facilitating story – you could utilise story for:
Post-implementation learning review
Myth busters [...]
Off to the Organisational Development Australia Conference
Posted by Andrew 22 October 2008Tomorrow and Friday I’m heading out to the ODA 2008 conference themed around Perspectives-Practices-Possibilities. Check out the program here!
Interested in storytelling?
Posted by Andrew 19 October 2008Then you might love to check out Ashley Ramsden.
Ashley Ramsden is the founding director of the School of Storytelling, the longest established centre of its kind in the United Kingdom and co-founder of Storytelling in Organisations, a pioneering consultancy in the application of story in leadership and change management.
Ashley Ramsden is coming to Melbourne and part [...]
What’s your fear?
Posted by Andrew 12 October 2008Over the past several years I have been interested in other peoples experience of becoming a better facilitator – as well as ways to help them – and myself!
What’s a facilitator I hear you ask? Well – if you work with people, groups of people, teams of people and your focus is to help them [...]
Turning Points – It’s my Birthday
Posted by Andrew 8 October 2008Scarey how fast time goes by.
Even worse when you realise that your birthday is now a milestone birthday. A special birthday. A turning point birthday.
In April this year I begun a project inviting executive women’s stories, and as this project started to mature (now having conducted over 30 interviews) the focus has turned to turning [...]