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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Just Try Stuff….

“Just try stuff” was about recognising that a key characteristic of a complex situation like a pandemic is uncertainty…

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7 Keys to Co-Design: Lessons from the Pandemic

What are the co-design lessons from the pandemic that can be applied in the workplace and beyond? You will have your…

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Accessing the Collaboration Gold

I've heard many times from clients that they saw the PoC as "gold"........but they really struggled with the "how",…

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The Heart of Collaboration

There is a pathway to follow when collaborating and it begins well before we seek solutions. How are you ensuring you…

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Three ways to take your contractual partnership from good to great

How does my client move from an 'us and them' mindset to a 'we' mindset, in the high-pressure world of project…

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Fingerprints on the bypass

he could live with the decision because of the way he had been involved - and in fact that he was quite supportive…

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There is co-design, and then there is co-design…

When you hear someone say they are running a “co-design process”, you might ask just how much involvement stakeholders…

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The Agony of Silence

...the pain of being silent is one of the keys to listening more effectively. But this insight doesn't make it any…

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A hop, skip and jump into collaboration

Our insight is that we need to treat such situations more like a dance than a climb- taking a flexible approach allows…

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