Category: Facilitation

Ask about the implications of their answer. When people answer a question without being particularly revealing, or by giving a very safe answer, what do you do? For instance, when ...

I wonder if there is "scouting" fatigue?  Does this suggest a two half-day format might yield better implications than a day-long event?  We certainly know that participants report "mental exhaustion" ...

If all the viewpoints we hear come from people who are like us, we assume that we have the same information and the same perspective. We think we have the ...

Some observations and insights on "paper-based" explorations.  Including some insights on using "paper arcs" for demonstrations -- and some observations from an exploration conducted in November 2014 with 160 participants ...

Writing in Libraries: Processes and Pathways to Inquiry and Learning A very interesting article because of our focus on "paper-based" explorations ...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90237319/how-to-solve-complex-problems-by-not-focusing-on-them ...

It's an "approved" item on the list for upgrades. And I'm going to add it to Facilitator Training and Highly Facilitated Workshops. +50's and -50's are going to require a ...

For the occasional situation where a team asks about adding a "4th Order" implication, I've created one of the "cards" -- like the Contributing/Scoring Cards -- that shows a "workaround" ...

Very interesting article related to our use of the "Scouting" metaphor for explorations. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidden-metaphors-get-under-our-skin/ ...

The teams we create for strategic exploration (Implications Wheel, Strategy Matrix, T.I.P.S. Tracking, Vision) can be either diverse teams of "strangers" (in a community) or diverse teams of co-workers.  In ...