The Art of Focused Conversation: Transform Your Meetings with the Four-Level ORID Method
How many hours have you spent in meetings that went nowhere?
If you're like most professionals, the answer is "too many to count." Research shows tha ...
The Art of Focused Conversation: Transform Your Meetings with the Four-Level ORID Method
How many hours have you spent in meetings that went nowhere?
If you're like most professionals, the answer is "too many to count." Research shows tha ...
Shared Understanding of Facts – Starting Point for Consensus
The first step in achieving group consensus is to establish a shared understanding of facts. If a group doesn’t have the same starting point, it is ...
Listening Through Emotion from the "Other Side"
Last August, at a family gathering, my cousin ranted for more than a half hour about politics. His intense anger blew me away and obscured any logical ...
Focused Conversation Method
This is the single most valuable method for any facilitator. It allows any group to have a safe conversation that actually gets somewhere. It is a too ...
Human Genetic Material Benefit Sharing
Pharmaceutical firms get financial benefit from the use of human genetic material while disease and founder populations who provide the genetic materi ...
Consultation on Public Consultations
The City of Edmonton wanted to determine how best to do public consultation. At first: Public consultation was often held on major city initiatives bu ...
Webequie First Nation Ring of Fire
Webequie First Nation is in the mineral-rich Ring of Fire in northern Ontario. At first: Governments and mining companies usually want quick negotia ...
Participatory Strategic Planning
ICA’s participatory strategic planning is well-known around the world in companies, governments, non-profit groups, and communities. For many facili ...
Social Process Triangle
This is the most powerful diagnostic tool for understanding whole system dynamics in society and organizations. With it any size group can get a good ...