Most team SWOT analyses produce a list, but very little change. The difficulty isn’t the framework; it’s the lack of ownership. Discover how to transform your next SWOT session into a powerful conversation that moves beyond description, reveals hidden patterns, and shifts how your team shows up for each other.
Interruptions in meetings are common but often poorly handled. Discover five practical leadership tactics to manage interruptions, protect speaker airtime, and improve the quality of team discussions.
Flawless Consulting by Peter Block is a foundational work on building trust-based partnerships with clients. This practical summary highlights the key ideas, mindsets and behaviours that help consultants, facilitators and leaders create sustainable results through authentic partnership.
This is my third session attending Connecting for the Common Good with Peter Block. As always, some great conversations and ideas. There are two more in the series. See HERE to attend. Here is my sketchnote summary of the session:
Yesterday I attended a session by Peter Block on "Connecting for the common good". As always engaging, energising and motivating. There are four more in the series. See HERE. Here is my sketchnote summary of the session:
The book in 3 sentences Peter Block challenges the dominant “business perspective”, built on scarcity, consumption, and institutional control, and offers a new story: the common good perspective, where citizens reclaim agency through trust, local action, and relational care. He argues that real change happens when neighbours gather, share power, and co-create community well-being, rather than waiting for systems to fix [...]
The full title is "The Answer to How is YES: Acting on what matters." The book in 3 sentences Peter Block argues that our obsession with asking “how?” masks a deeper avoidance of personal responsibility and purpose. Instead of chasing solutions, we should begin by saying “yes” to what truly matters and commit to it without waiting for permission or certainty. [...]
Stewardship by Peter Block is a foundational work on shifting leadership from control to service. This practical summary highlights the ideas that support trust-based partnership, shared accountability and long-term responsibility in organisations.
» The IPK Design Kit — Read on www.i-p-k.co.za/ipk-design-kit/
Maturity Mapping overview and its connection to cynefin and Wardley mapping
www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_redquadrant-the-left-hand-column-exercise-activity-6767713555874742272-M8yo Classic exercise based on similar in Senge's Fifth Discipline. This is by Benjamin Taylor.
Saving this planning ' reviewing too here for later. Read on blog.agendashift.com/2021/02/08/eating-our-own-dog-food-our-outside-in-strategy-review/
Article on decision making by Amazon CEO
Link to article on Customer value charting
Video on "MA" the art of Japanese silence
Link to some nice visual templates on storytelling
Article link that explores "Connection before content"
A hub of resources related to Design Thinking
Saving article for future reading https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
Article saved for later on facilitation. Via Scott Gould...By focusing on strategy instead of tactics, content can come and go, but the foundation will stay solid for the long-term. — Read on www.gatheringeffect.com/blog/how-to-create-gatherings-that-scale
Interesting research on change design, support and evaluation
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MG Taylor Modeling Language — Read on legacy.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/glasbead/expmodel.htm
Interesting tips on virtual facilitation
Link to a PDF on a Visual Facilitation Process “graphic gameplan"
Sketchnotes from chapters 1 to 13 of Flawless Consulting
Link to resources for online Open Space sessions via Zoom
Full article in pdf: www.cecan.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-03/PSM Workshop method.pdf
A link to the work done by Michelle Buchholz on Visual Policy Analysis
A link to the work by The Value Web on exploring the role of facilitation in change
Art of Hosting guide developed by the AoH community
A short presentation delivered to Nedja Petranovskaja's Remote Cafe Session on Face to Face versus Remote Facilitation?
This is a curation of Visual Templates I have found: either by being sent them or on my travels on the internet
My very brief thoughts on what makes a canvas
A sketchnote from a session by Pierluigi Pugliese
Interesting article: Sensemaking Under Pressure We have all been challenged to rethink the way we work; at the organisational, team, program and evaluation level. More than ever, we — Read on www.artd.com.au/news/1570/
A curation of resources for collaboration tools by Robin Good
Saving for consumptions later. A framework for planning a harvest – Chris Corrigan — Read on www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/a-framework-for-planning-a-harvest/
A link to resources on Social Learning by Wenger-Trayner
A double sized document to help trainers and facilitators get the best out of Zoom
A series of sketchnotes from a session by Ia Brix on designing and using visual templates.
A sketchnote on the role of fear in facilitation from the book The Collaboration Code
A sketchnote on the role of trust in the process of facilitation
The Scan Focus Act facilitation model in a sketchnote summary - Taken from The Collaboration Code book series
A sketchnote on how to do solid co-facilitation from the book series The Collaboration Code
A sketchnote on an approach to facilitation outlines in The Collaboration Code book series
A series of sketchnotes on the role of the physical environment in facilitation and how to design for its use
Lauren Green has created an editable collection of icebreakers for virtual meetings HERE Worth a look!
Resources for effective collaboration
