Peer Coaching and Self-CoachingThe self-coaching approach combines two powerful coaching models into a comprehensive process for self-development. – – – – – – – – – – – … Read more |
9. Commitment – ownership of outcomes/actions
How design thinking transforms the strategic planning process25 years on from when engineers adapted a strategic design tool and applied it to organisation design, it is still the best strategic planning tool … Read more |
AMRC Use Lockdown For Strategic RethinkI was speaking to a friend of mine at the weekend about how he has been using the COVID-19 hiatus to rethink his organisation’s strategy. … Read more |
Tracking Action CompletionIn some organisations, lack of progress on actions between meetings is endemic. In many organisation, it can be quite common, and can be a typical … Read more |
Consensus Reaching in Remote MeetingsConsensus is where every individual member of a group fully accepts the group’s conclusion for the collective benefit of the group, and is fully committed … Read more |
Committing to ActionThe biggest cause of ineffectiveness in meetings is poor progress on actions between meetings, often due to lack of clarity and realism. So how do … Read more |
Ownership CultureManagement want it … Management just want it to happen … Management want us to do it – phrases we should never, ever, hear! And yet, … Read more |
Co-Active LeadershipI am grateful to Andy Denne of Teaching Team Leadership for the following brief introduction to Co-Active Leadership. As we all learn to operate and … Read more |
Action Planning SheetThe Action Planning sheet is a tool for thinking through actions in respect of ensuring they will be effectively implemented. It is particularly useful where … Read more |
Solution Effect DiagramThe Solution Effect Diagram is a very useful variation of the Ishikawa diagram. It is used for exploring the potential implications to an intended change (sometimes … Read more |
The chemistry of inspirationI have long felt intrigued (and somewhat threatened) by the fact that small shifts in the chemistry of our brains can lead to major shifts … Read more |
Meeting Effectiveness Maturity ModelMaturity Models are simply tables that describe the journey between poor practice and best practice across a number of different aspects and levels. – – … Read more |
The $500 betThis particular exercise is based on the results of a survey undertaken by a consulting organisation of failed and delayed projects. In their interviews of the … Read more |
Flow and Employee EngagementThe bottom line is it’s critical to your bottom line … but how do you do it? The following article is the work of Kath … Read more |
Meaningful ConversationThe Vital Role of Inner Condition in Meeting Effectiveness A big factor in the effectiveness of any meeting is the attitudes of the people within it. … Read more |
Scale of CommitmentMeeting design tends to concern itself predominantly with arriving at the right logical outcome; it is focused on the necessity of coming out with the … Read more |
Personal Action PlansPersonal Action Plans are primarily a means of developing ownership for individual or collective behavioural change. They are analogous to normal meeting actions but differ … Read more |
Myers-Briggs model / PsychometricsNot all diversity is immediately obvious. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a well established psychometric tool for assessing peoples preferences in decision making activities. … Read more |
Handling Stress and ConflictIf your meetings are dealing with important issues, then it would be unusual if some of those issues do not on occasion create some degree of stress … Read more |
What sort of meeting do you need?Meetings are primarily about learning, but the work of Jean Piaget, reported by Arie de Geus in his book The Living Company, highlights that there … Read more |
Meeting by DesignWeb-based meetings are often seen as an inferior alternative to physical meetings something to fill in the gaps when travel is too expensive or inconvenient. … Read more |
Planning ChartThe Planning Chart is simply a grid, with either months, or numbers along the top, to represent periods of time into the future, and rows … Read more |
Red Green Cards for Consensus ReachingRed Green Cards are a specific adaptation of Consensus Reaching and help a group arrive at a conclusion and develop a shared commitment to it through … Read more |
Consensus ReachingConsensus is where every individual member of a group fully accepts the group’s conclusion for the collective benefit of the group, and is fully committed … Read more |