I don't often participate in listserv discussions but this one seems particularly important. I wanted to bring up the issue of facilitating and using an...
Lynne Wiesman
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Mar 1, 2008 1:19 pm
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Colleagues, Please see the attached vacancy notice for the POD Organizational Development Leader. Please circulate this to those you know who might be...
Mitch Owen
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Mar 1, 2008 1:52 pm
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Barbara, et al. Barbara is correct in many ways, and it is more than a common sense or intuitive approach. The empirical data show that working within "a...
Darrell Puls
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Mar 1, 2008 6:34 pm
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Darrell, et al, Agree with Darrell on the potential 'miracles' (below) - I think the key points are understanding the differences - and as you write, then...
Barbara Pirie
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Mar 2, 2008 4:31 am
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Conference Call, Call for Papers, Reviewers, Chairs, and New Web Site Features The Association of Management (AoM) and International Association of Management...
AoM/IAoM
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Mar 2, 2008 3:59 pm
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Dear reader, I propose to cultivate a vocabulary of irony. (Rorty: 'Contingency, irony and solidarity). We use words in our communicating. The meaning of words...
Jan Lelie
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Mar 2, 2008 10:03 pm
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We are 1048 subscribers in (at least) 36 countries. Last month we received 182 posts from 83 contributors, about 6 posts per day. Thanks to our sponsors: ...
Sandor Schuman
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Mar 2, 2008 11:54 pm
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What I really like about Barbara's post is the obligation for us to do our homework, understand the issues, and make a plan for how to be effective with the...
Mary Jackson
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Mar 3, 2008 3:34 pm
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... I agree with you wholeheartedly about the need to be well informed when designing and facilitating processes. Here is an partial outline of the process...
dorothy@...
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Mar 3, 2008 5:14 pm
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A big ditto! I'd like Barbara to expand on the checklist with a half-dozen or so questions to ask the client; a sort of "cultural landscape" a-la-carte menu ...
Joseph (Rosey) Rosenb...
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Mar 4, 2008 3:36 pm
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Hello All, Mary Jackson wrote: " I can't tell you how many times I have been asked to break down a confusing concept so that other people can understand it,...
Michael Erickson
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Mar 5, 2008 1:33 am
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Rosey, I'm assuming you're referring to Dorothy's process terms of reference (below) in preparation for a project, facilitation plan, etc. If it's something...
Barbara Pirie
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Mar 5, 2008 8:50 am
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My client in the US has a quality problem with a (company-owned) manufacturing facility in Italy. They would like some coaching on who to effectively raise...
Mary Jackson
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Mar 5, 2008 10:17 pm
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Barbara, Always good to compare notes. Checklists and similiar job aids are helpful ways to pass along experience. I was reminded of Gary Klein's "Sources of...
Joseph (Rosey) Rosenb...
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Mar 6, 2008 10:36 am
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Agree that checklists are very helpful/valuable. I think of their use now in intensive care in some hospitals with drastic reduction in deaths, infections,...
Barbara Pirie
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Mar 6, 2008 9:10 pm
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I should have said "my client has a MINOR quality problem." I'm afraid I made it sound like there is something wrong with their product! The issue is not...
Mary Jackson
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Mar 6, 2008 9:45 pm
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*I just had a delightful conversation with a colleague about the online tools we have been using in the last 2 months to co-edit a journal. She never saw a...
Loretta Donovan
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Mar 7, 2008 2:54 am
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Sorry, here comes the correct link: http://visuelle-protokolle.de/english/web/news.html...
Visuelle Protokolle
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Mar 7, 2008 11:02 am
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My business partner and I - two group facilitators working in the UK - have been involved in action research to test out different techniques and approaches to...
Carol Sherriff
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Mar 7, 2008 2:15 pm
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Mar 7, 2008 3:02 pm
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Sheepdogs! Sally ... From: Group Facilitation [mailto:GRP-FACL@...] On Behalf Of Carol Sherriff Sent: 07 March 2008 12:30 To:...
Sally Murfitt
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Mar 7, 2008 3:36 pm
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Dear Carol, Facilitating means catalysing change.We're in the business of emerging change, we're an emergent market. Archetypically (see note) symbolized by...
Jan Lelie
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Mar 7, 2008 5:32 pm
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Good one Sally, but did they come in herds? Dogs were in roedels (?) Who led the sheepdogs out? Jan Sheepdogs! Sally ... From: Group Facilitation...
Jan Lelie
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Mar 7, 2008 5:36 pm
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Rosey and Barbara: When Rosey used the word 'checklist' in an earlier post, I understood that he meant it in a broad sense. However, when Barbara used this...
dorothy@...
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Mar 7, 2008 6:02 pm
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Wow, thank you to Sally, Jan Leslie, Robert and Gary for stimulating my thoughts still further. My father-in-law introduced me to a little ditty - there's...
Carol Sherriff
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Mar 7, 2008 6:49 pm
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... Avoiding the whole thing about science and going straight for the metaphor: I think maybe in pack terms we _are_ leaders. Think of group process as a form...
Ned Ruete
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Mar 7, 2008 7:58 pm
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Wow, you throw us poor facilitators a bone and we really become unglued – to mix a metaphor. BTW, what’s a meta for? And, brother, can you pair a dime? ...
James Troxel
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Mar 8, 2008 6:54 am
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:10:04 -0600, James Troxel ... I'm probably taking you too literally in answering but metaphor comes from the Greek and means to transfer...
Carol Sherriff
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Mar 8, 2008 1:42 pm
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Dorothy! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Rosey Group Facilitation: Process Expertise for Group Effectiveness is a moderated discussion on the practice...
Joseph (Rosey) Rosenb...
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Mar 8, 2008 4:41 pm
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... Instead of a pack of dogs, how about a troop of apes? An anthropologist who now runs a major university laughingly describes the work chairing meetings as...