Five top tips from our Fabulous Facilitators

If you run meetings at work or spend time in front of the room running workshops, these tips came from people just like you.

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Are you managing risks or managing outrage?

There is only a low correlation between the actual level of physical risk in a situation and the amount of concern it…

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Vote ‘Yes’ to Listening and Curiosity

When collaborating, don’t set up situations that become referendums on the question at hand. Rather, set up…

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Down with Difficult Debates

With some simple skills and processes we can get out of our adversarial thinking and start learning together about what…

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Do Be Do Be Do Collaboration

Authentic collaboration requires us to do and be and do and be and do collaboration.

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Isn’t it great that we disagree?

We often see divergent views as a barrier to collaboration, but I believe that the much bigger problem is that we see…

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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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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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