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Organizational Journey Map part 2: After Seeing the Gap Clearly, How Do You Design an Action Path with “Soul”?
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Organizational Journey Map part 2: After Seeing the Gap Clearly, How Do You Design an Action Path with “Soul”?

ToP Tools: Breaking Through the Tough Spots • Series 06 — Part 2 By Huiying You Many facilitators, after helping a group align its c ...

Land Resources IT Cluster

Land Resources IT Cluster

A strategic plan was needed to consolidate IT departments from four ministries into one, envisioning a new e-service where people could access governm ...

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

The new Dean wanted to involve all faculty and large numbers of staff, students and external stakeholders to diagnose the current situation, define th ...

Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration Board

Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration Board

The board works on social services, housing and childcare services for an area almost the size of Italy. ICA Associates Inc. facilitated a 4 year plan ...

Consensus building: practical approaches for real agreement and shared action
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Consensus building: practical approaches for real agreement and shared action

Why consensus building matters in complex work Most decisions worth making in an organization do not have a single correct answer. They involve peopl ...

The Art of Focused Conversation: what ORID means and how the method works
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The Art of Focused Conversation: what ORID means and how the method works

What ORID means ORID stands for Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, and Decisional. It is the four level question sequence at the centre of the Art ...

Consensus Workshop Method: Facilitation Tool | ICAA

Consensus Workshop Method: Facilitation Tool | ICAA

Every facilitator needs to know how to build a consensus within a group. This method has forty years of practice, in person and online in groups from ...

The Art of Focused Conversation: Transform Your Meetings with the Four-Level ORID Method

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 ...

Focused Conversation Method

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 ...

Participatory Strategic Planning

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 ...