I'm customizing Action Learning programs for several clients, each of which will have about 100 Action Learning (in-company, multi-project) groups across the...
Carter McNamara
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Dec 4, 2007 7:41 pm
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Hello -I'm new to the group and was hoping I could get some help with resources for facilitating for children. I work for a non-profitagency whose focus is on...
Danielle Chekaraou
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Dec 4, 2007 10:14 pm
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A couple of weeks ago, I sent round a request for examples and wisdom about setting up units in organizations to internalize facilitation and participation....
James Wiegel
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Dec 6, 2007 9:50 pm
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Thanks Jim for such a good summary. I have learned a lot more from your summary than the individual responses. What if every question posed in this group had...
Tony Osime
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Dec 7, 2007 9:32 am
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Thanks, Tony. And for the additional thinking. A lot of the questions that do get brainstormed also get summarized, I believe, though not always sent around....
James Wiegel
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Dec 7, 2007 3:59 pm
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As Jim pointed out, we do have a number of compiled threads (and other compilations) on the website: ...
Jim Weigel's summary of the discussion thread on institutionalizing a culture of participation is now available on the website in the Resources section. Should...
Sandor Schuman
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Dec 12, 2007 6:17 pm
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Dear colleagues, A UK client wishes to start working to adapt its managerial culture (technical, male, private sector) to better cope with its client base...
Dave Burton
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Dec 13, 2007 12:36 pm
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An organization (College Summit) that I've contracted with for the last 7 years is drastically expanding their facilitator body and asked If I might know of...
Jeremiah Ashbaugh
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Dec 13, 2007 12:39 pm
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I am designing/facilitating a senior staff retreat in my agency and have been asked to include meal preparation as a team building exercize. I have Googled...
Nancy Barrett
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Dec 14, 2007 6:02 pm
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I have used the children's story Stone Soup to illustrate what team members bring to a group endeavor. Each person, symbolically adds to a real pot in the...
fredda merzon
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Dec 14, 2007 7:36 pm
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... Process the learnings, a la the ToP ORID process or the experiential learning cycle (Porter, Lawrence C., “Game, schmame, what have I learned?” ...
Ned Ruete
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Dec 14, 2007 7:56 pm
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Dear Nancy My parents used to do their annual clients meeting by inviting everyone to their house to cook dinner. They would assign teams of people who did...
Lawrence Philbrook
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Dec 15, 2007 6:21 am
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I actually designed and facilitated one of these several years ago. It was the highlight of a five-day teambuilding retreat for a globally scattered high-tech...
Clarity (Corvallis) -...
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Dec 15, 2007 7:26 pm
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... Yes, I've done a fair amount of it in my former life as a social science researcher. It looks to me like you've covered it off so well and succinctly, I...
Robert Bacal
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Dec 15, 2007 8:37 pm
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Allan, I have used categories that I develop to push teams to a broader focus, but never would I sort their data.. I agree completely that either the entire...
Mitch Owen
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Dec 15, 2007 8:37 pm
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We are 1016 subscribers in (at least) 37 countries. Last month we received 47 posts from 37 contributors, about 1.5 posts per day. Thanks to our sponsors: ...
Sandor Schuman
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Dec 15, 2007 8:37 pm
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Last year Jon C. Jenkins and Maureen R. Jenkins published a book entitled "The 9 disciplines of a facilitator," sponsored by the International Association of...
Russell, Keith
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Dec 16, 2007 1:20 am
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I don't know why more organizations don't focus on facilitative leadership. I do know that when I wrote my book, The Facilitative Way, Leadership That Makes...
Wilson Priscilla
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Dec 16, 2007 5:23 am
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I would argue that Servant Leadership tends to be the more widely known term that sometimes embodies the same concepts of facilitative leadership. The modern...
Mitch Owen
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Dec 16, 2007 2:52 pm
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... Others have suggested different terms by which "facilitative leadership" might be known. Tom Peters called a similar idea "Managing Downwards." As ...
Ned Ruete
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Dec 16, 2007 4:21 pm
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Tony, I don't believe i'll be inundated with requests but that would be an interesting situation to have. I believe that things have changed dramatically since...
Wilson Priscilla
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Dec 16, 2007 6:19 pm
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Dear reader, Ned, Keith, Thanks for raising the subject. ... 'Why', i think, is a ambiguous question; as is facilitative leadership. Are you refering to...
Jan Lelie
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Dec 16, 2007 10:52 pm
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Leadership Consulting Group in Houston has a series of cooking exercises. I took one group through it and recommended it to another client, who was happy with...
Mary Jackson
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Dec 17, 2007 3:25 pm
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The "Competing Values Framework" of organizational effectiveness and leadership explicitly identifies the "facilitator role" as one of the key leadership...
Sandor Schuman
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Dec 17, 2007 4:46 pm
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Am seeking information that would help me understand BPR and Process mapping. I will be having a conversation with a consulting company whose client has a need...
cheryljohnson
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Dec 17, 2007 5:58 pm
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Great insight and it is also shows that there is as much variation in our field as in many manufacturing processes. Sticking to the original question, it also...
Joseph Bailey
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Dec 17, 2007 6:57 pm
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Cheryl: There are numerous books on BPR and process mapping. The two I am recommending are "how to's" which I think would be of immediate benefit. The one is...
Bernard Liebowitz
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Dec 17, 2007 7:07 pm
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Dear all, In "Thinking outside the box by looking inside the box: extending the cognitive revolution in leadership research" (Leadership Quarterly 11(4) 51 -...
Jan Lelie
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Dec 18, 2007 12:04 am
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I wonder what would happen if some enterprising member of IAF collected 15 or more good examples, from our work, with an emphasis on examples of the leader vs....