April 30, 2025
Am I Getting My Ducks in a Row, or Collaborating?
How do I know when I'm over-thinking and over-planning my engagement with stakeholders?
March 21, 2023
Is there something other than ‘othering’
Can anyone point to a single example where positive and constructive outcomes have arisen from highlighting the…
August 10, 2022
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…
August 4, 2022
Being comfortable with discomfort
While the group’s inherent desire was to help “fix” the situation, there was a growing recognition that allowing people…
June 7, 2022
How to Disappear Completely
Rather than seeking more control to wrangle your stakeholders, it often pays to disappear, if not completely, then just…
May 24, 2022
Overcoming the inertia- just try stuff
Perhaps just ‘trying stuff’ (and living with a degree of uncertainty) can overcome that frustrating feeling that we…
March 15, 2022
Trusting the data in co-design
....they had been focused on the data, and rather than the less obvious contextual issues that were also critical to…
February 16, 2022
Take a different viewpoint
the importance of seeing more than one viewpoint when tackling a complex situation to build a clearer and more complete…
October 20, 2021
Just Try Stuff….
“Just try stuff” was about recognising that a key characteristic of a complex situation like a pandemic is uncertainty…
September 27, 2021
Turn rejection into collaboration
.....an example of ‘weaponizing’ rejection or disagreement..... And while rejection is frustrating, it’s still an…











