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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Vote ‘Yes’ to Listening and Curiosity

When collaborating, don’t set up situations that become referendums on the question at hand. Rather, set up…

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Down with Difficult Debates

With some simple skills and processes we can get out of our adversarial thinking and start learning together about what…

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Do Be Do Be Do Collaboration

Authentic collaboration requires us to do and be and do and be and do collaboration.

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Isn’t it great that we disagree?

We often see divergent views as a barrier to collaboration, but I believe that the much bigger problem is that we see…

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Diving in to a collaboration mystery

How can organisations best avoid poor meetings and boring talkfests while finding ways to do productive work together?

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The Diamond Ring of Decision-making

Let’s reframe our approach from groaning to growing, from solving to learning, from convergence on the answer, to…

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From Groaning to Growing With Your Collaborators

When collaborating on difficult problems, that groaning you hear is the sound of old ideas fading and new ideas…

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Resetting your collaboration

The relationship element is harder to see and trickier to deal with, but much more likely to allow smooth sailing when…

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Sure signs it is time to reset your collaboration

How would you recognise that it’s time to reset your collaboration? Take a look at these signs.

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