Strategic Planning: Achieving Breakthroughs & Commitment through Co-creation

Conventional strategic planning can cause disconnects between the people making decisions and the employees who have to implement them, which can cause issues around motivation, implementation, or even missed opportunities

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Recognize and Redirect Tangents
facilitation

Recognize and Redirect Tangents

IAF Competency D3: Recognize and Clarify Tangents Once I had a very creative and energetic group that ...

Sequencing Approaches in a Session
session design / session plan

Sequencing Approaches in a Session

If you have a session that requires more than one method or topic, you will need to discern the sequence ...

“Wave” Analysis of Trends
trend analysis / trends

“Wave” Analysis of Trends

Using Wave Analysis to Understand Trends   Wave Analysis Overview This is a quick way to reveal e ...

Slide Show: Discerning Trends with Social Process
trend analysis / trends

Slide Show: Discerning Trends with Social Process

This group used the Social Process Triangles to plot observations from province-wide consultations to dis ...

Understanding Trends
trend analysis / trends

Understanding Trends

For a version of this post with a visual layout, click this link: Understanding Trends for Web Post U ...

Ensuring Productive Small and Large Group Processes
large groups / small groups

Ensuring Productive Small and Large Group Processes

Recently I was a participant in an online session where the facilitator sent participants to breakout gro ...

Integrating Small Group Work into a Whole Group
small groups

Integrating Small Group Work into a Whole Group

Reports from small group work can be interminable if given verbally and linearly. But there are great too ...

Elements of Setting a Comprehensive Context for a Facilitated Session
facilitation / facilitation design

Elements of Setting a Comprehensive Context for a Facilitated Session

The following are some important elements of setting a context for a session. They may not be presented i ...

Establish a Clear Context
facilitation

Establish a Clear Context

It sounds so simple: Establish a clear context. At the same time, it is critical to the success of group ...