Free Graphic: Values > Culture > Performance

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Free graphic: How shared Values contribute to Culture and Performance This is a graphic I created for a client; I was facilitating a workshop where we were exploring organisational values, how they might inform people’s work on a daily, practical level, and helping them choose the top three for internal use (inducting new staff and […]

Building Enthusiastic Teams with Sociocracy, Greece, 2 – 9 Sept 2016

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Want to solve many of the problems commonly faced in the workplace? Want to be more self organised and collaborative? Feel like you’re not getting the best from yourself or your colleagues? 1 week learn & play retreat at the stunning Pelion Centre, Mount Pelion, Thessaly, Greece – part of the Kalikalos holistic education network. Just €400 including food and shared accommodation, and plenty of time for snorkelling and exploring.

Thurs 29 – Fri 30 October ’15: Deep shift and radical innovation with Open Space

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An experiential 2 day co-learning workshop: Brighton, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel. The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter. #OpenSpaceTech

Thurs 20 – Fri 21 August ’15: Deep shift and radical innovation with Open Space

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Experiential 2 day co-learning workshop: Brighton, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel.

The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter.

Do you want a way to rapidly launch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem solving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation?

Learn how to organise and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by which a large group of people can organise themselves into a conference….

Friday 12 June ’15: Unleash the people with Open Space

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Workshop: The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter. An experiential co-learning workshop: London, one day, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel. Do you want a way to rapidly launch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem solving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation? Learn how to design and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by which a large group of people can organise themselves….

4 Tweaks For a Healthier Team

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Dysfunctional organisations cause stress that impacts on 98% of UK employees. Here’s 4 simple tweaks to help your team enjoy work more.

The fierce crucible of respectful communication

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Republished in loving memory of Adrienne Campbell, who wrote this in part inspired by her work with myself and colleagues. Honest, effective and respectful communication goes much further than being nice or polite. It means learning techniques for handling differences constructively, with wisdom, so that conflict need not arise. Difference of opinion is ok, it’s how we handle that which is key.

The Miles Davies approach to facilitation

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The Miles Davies approach to facilitation Co-leading a Facilitative Leadership day last week alongside London Creative Labs, I was enjoying later what we coined the Miles Davis approach to facilitation: bathe in the gaps and celebrate the words you don’t speak. Republished. First published 2011.

FacilitationCamp10

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An article published in IAF reporting on FacilitationCamp, a 2 day event in 2010, and a diverse gathering of people sharing, learning, practising tools for working with groups of people.