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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When groups get stuck in conflict: how facilitated conciliation moves them forward
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When groups get stuck in conflict: how facilitated conciliation moves them forward

Every group runs into disagreement. Most of the time, disagreement is healthy. It is how a team tests ide ...

What makes strategic planning actually stick: a facilitated approach
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What makes strategic planning actually stick: a facilitated approach

Most organizations do not have a strategy problem. They have an ownership problem.   A leaders ...

Structured dialogue creates more freedom, not less
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Structured dialogue creates more freedom, not less

There is a common intuition about conversation, particularly inside organizations, that goes something li ...

Can AI Replace Facilitators?
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Can AI Replace Facilitators?

Artificial intelligence is developing at a speed that often feels beyond imagination. Conversations about ...

The Strategic Spiral: How Can We Help Rigid Strategic Planning Grow as Naturally as a Plant?
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The Strategic Spiral: How Can We Help Rigid Strategic Planning Grow as Naturally as a Plant?

ToP Tools Breakthrough Series 04 Many organizations fear the same pattern when doing strategic pla ...

Certification protects the integrity of facilitation as a profession
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Certification protects the integrity of facilitation as a profession

Of all the disciplines that quietly carry organizational life, facilitation is one of the most exposed to ...

Participation must be built into how work gets done
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Participation must be built into how work gets done

There is a familiar pattern in organizations that have decided to take participation seriously. A worksho ...

The future of leadership is participation, not position
participation

The future of leadership is participation, not position

For most of organizational history, leadership has been understood as something that comes with a positio ...

Why consensus is about shared ownership, not compromise
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Why consensus is about shared ownership, not compromise

Somewhere along the way, the word "consensus" got damaged. In most organizations, when people say "we nee ...