The facilitator’s art of managing time

A great gift we can give a group of people working together on something difficult is the gift of time. But there are always so many competing outcomes to…

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Whose Story Is It Anyway?

Inviting your stakeholders to write their own version of the story can be an essential component of success.

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Oscar Winners, Net Zero and the Skills Gap

What are the skills of doing  everything, everywhere, all at once to meet our Paris commitments?

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Is there something other than ‘othering’

Can anyone point to a single example where positive and constructive outcomes have arisen from highlighting the…

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Diving in to a collaboration mystery

How can organisations best avoid poor meetings and boring talkfests while finding ways to do productive work together?

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The Diamond Ring of Decision-making

Let’s reframe our approach from groaning to growing, from solving to learning, from convergence on the answer, to…

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From Groaning to Growing With Your Collaborators

When collaborating on difficult problems, that groaning you hear is the sound of old ideas fading and new ideas…

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Being comfortable with discomfort

While the group’s inherent desire was to help “fix” the situation, there was a growing recognition that allowing people…

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Resetting your collaboration

The relationship element is harder to see and trickier to deal with, but much more likely to allow smooth sailing when…

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Sure signs it is time to reset your collaboration

How would you recognise that it’s time to reset your collaboration? Take a look at these signs.

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What migraines taught me about overmanaging

I woke with a migraine, and dragged myself to the meeting feeling pretty terrible, so just had to sit there and let it…

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