Flawless Consulting – Peter Block – Book Summary
Explore key insights from Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting, The trusted guide for consultants seeking to build trust, solve problems, and drive sustainable client results.
Activating the common Good – Peter Block – Book Summary
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 [...]
Stewardship – Peter Block – Book Summary
The book in three sentences Peter Block’s Stewardship redefines leadership as a choice to serve rather than control. It challenges traditional models of power, accountability, and ownership, arguing for organisations built on partnership, transparency, and shared purpose. The book is a call to abandon patriarchal governance and become stewards, that is, people who are deeply accountable without needing to dominate. Who [...]
The Empowered Manager – Peter Block – Book Summary
The book in 3 sentences The Empowered Manager is a practical guide for managers who want to lead with integrity, not control. It shows how managers can choose partnership over hierarchy, service over self-interest, and accountability over compliance. By making these personal shifts, managers can foster trust, ownership, and meaningful change, regardless of the system they work in. Who should read [...]
Resource – The IPK Design Kit
» The IPK Design Kit — Read on www.i-p-k.co.za/ipk-design-kit/
Exercise – left hand column
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.
Template outside-in strategy review
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/
Sensemaking wiki – Cynefin dot net
Cynefin.net a resourcing for sensemaking tools and techniques: — Read on wiki.sensemaker-suite.com/index.php/Main_Page
Video – Japanese Art of silence
Video on "MA" the art of Japanese silence
Article – How to create gatherings that scale
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
Article: Leadership and the small group
Link to article: Leadership and the small group
Document: PDF on graphic gameplan visual template
Link to a PDF on a Visual Facilitation Process “graphic gameplan"
Open Space via Zoom
Link to resources for online Open Space sessions via Zoom
Article: A heuristic framework for reflecting on joint problem framing – Integration and Implementation Insights
Interesting read, held for later: What is joint problem framing? What are the key issues that joint problem framing has to address? How can joint problem framing be improved? What is joint problem framing? A key aspect of tackling complex problems is effectively bringing together differing points of view. These points of view are… — Read on i2insights.org/2020/06/23/framework-for-problem-framing/
Link – Recode Facilitation Framing
A link to the work by The Value Web on exploring the role of facilitation in change
Art of Harvesting guide
Art of Hosting guide developed by the AoH community
Face to Face or Online facilitation
A short presentation delivered to Nedja Petranovskaja's Remote Cafe Session on Face to Face versus Remote Facilitation?
Article: 5 STEPS TO STAY FOCUSED WHEN TEACHING ONLINE
Link to article on 5 STEPS TO STAY FOCUSED WHEN TEACHING ONLINE
Host Leadership – Sketchnote
A sketchnote from a session by Pierluigi Pugliese
Sensemaking Under Pressure by ARTD
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/
Resources for social learning by Wenger-Trayner
A link to resources on Social Learning by Wenger-Trayner
Ia Brix – Visual Templates webinar
A series of sketchnotes from a session by Ia Brix on designing and using visual templates.
Conscious co-facilitation
A sketchnote on how to do solid co-facilitation from the book series The Collaboration Code
Facilitation physical environment
A series of sketchnotes on the role of the physical environment in facilitation and how to design for its use
A collection of virtual icebreakers
Lauren Green has created an editable collection of icebreakers for virtual meetings HERE Worth a look!
Collaboration tools
Resources for effective collaboration
Online service scope
An overview of my online / remote service offering in a simple PDF.