Why learning to facilitate is becoming a core leadership skill
Something has quietly shifted in what it takes to lead. A generation ago, leadership was measured largely by how decisively a person could direct, del ...
Facilitation Tool
Reject the “Sticky Note Contest”: How Can the Consensus Workshop Method Produce a True Collective Soul?
Are you doing a Consensus Workshop, or just making a hodgepodge?
Many facilitators or HR professionals find that when they organize a team ...
Leading with Care: The Story of Lindsay Humber
Facilitation has been at the center of my work for over a decade – supporting communities and organizations to navigate complexity, listen ...
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
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 ...