Category: Strategic Exploration Tools
Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team
We’ve discussed the value of having three different strategic thinking perspectives in any strategy work. These three strategic thinking perspectives include people with front-line experience, others with functional expertise, and ...
Tactics for Asking Good Follow-Up Questions
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 ...
What Believing in the Possibilities Can Do for Learning and Teaching
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/38757/what-believing-in-the-possibilities-can-do-for-learning-and-teaching ...
Diversity Is Good: Why Doesn’t Everyone Agree?
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 ...
Paper-Based Project – I-Wheel
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 ...
How to Solve Complex Problems by Not Focusing on Them
https://www.fastcompany.com/90237319/how-to-solve-complex-problems-by-not-focusing-on-them ...
Civil War Boundary in U.S. Affects Trade to This Day
How interesting that my long term interest in the Civil War connects in this find with a "thought" for the Implications Wheel. The implications of the Civil War are still ...
Hidden Metaphors Get under Our Skin
Very interesting article related to our use of the "Scouting" metaphor for explorations. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidden-metaphors-get-under-our-skin/ ...
Building Trust Inside Your Team
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 ...
Introverts: How to Unleash the Powers of Thinkers
https://www.tlnt.com/introverts-how-to-unleash-the-powers-of-thinkers-in-the-workplace/ Another great piece for facilitators -- our job is to be aware of the dynamics in our teams. Over the years, some of our classic facilitator stories revolve around ...