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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 AI are everywhere—in boardrooms, classroom ...

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 planning: great ambition at the beginning of the ...

Structured dialogue creates more freedom, not less
facilitation

Structured dialogue creates more freedom, not less

There is a common intuition about conversation, particularly inside organizations, that goes something like this: structure is the enemy of openness. ...

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 ...

Human Genetic Material Benefit Sharing

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

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 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

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

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 ...