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

Focused Conversation Method Instructor
china / rsmi

Focused Conversation Method Instructor

The Focused Conversation Method (FCM) is an important Technology of Participation ToP™ method used worl ...

Guiding a Group To Self-Awareness: The Underlying Thinking Process
group process / ORID

Guiding a Group To Self-Awareness: The Underlying Thinking Process

One of the most common sources of difficulty in creating consensus in a group happens when people in the ...

Guiding Group Awareness Of The Clear Thinking Process Behind Facilitation Design
ORID

Guiding Group Awareness Of The Clear Thinking Process Behind Facilitation Design

A suggestion for introducing ORID as the thinking process behind the agenda: It’s important for the fa ...

A Fascinating Interview about ORID
facilitation / focused conversation / ORID / ToP methods

A Fascinating Interview about ORID

The ORID Method for Structured Conversation Robin Parsons, an ICA Associate, was recently interviewed ...

Decisional Level Questions to Close a Conversation

Decisional Level Questions to Close a Conversation

Sample Decisional Level Questions: Based on the intended results, or the rational aim of your conver ...

Strong Interpretive Questions

Strong Interpretive Questions

Questions at the Interpretive Level probe for meaning, significance and patterns, based on objective ...

Interpretive: Exploring Options and Looking for Patterns

Interpretive: Exploring Options and Looking for Patterns

Western society often uses critical thinking as a tool to understand and move toward decisions. There are ...

Useful Reflective Level Questions

Useful Reflective Level Questions

Reflective level questions are inquiry about internal responses to a situation, or any objective data ...

Objective Level Questions Establish Facts
ORID

Objective Level Questions Establish Facts

  Success in establishing shared facts depends on asking the right number of focused yet open ...