We covered 50 titles in my no-reading-required book club for busy leaders in 2024.
Continue reading “My top Wiser by Choice titles from 2024”Learning our Way into 2025
Even though our priorities should flow from our values, when I help clients articulate their values, I don’t start there. I’d rather get to know them a bit first, individually or as an organization, and then reflect back to them what seems to be important to them so that their values are highly personalized to them. (Otherwise, if you ask folks what they value right up front, they’ll always say “integrity, accountability and respect.” Who doesn’t??)
Continue reading “Learning our Way into 2025”Vanilla Strategy
In this last installment of my mini-series on ‘facilitation tips from the trenches,’ I’m turning my attention to how the feedback elicited shapes the decisions we make.
Remember that I am a fan of collaborative strategy building. Multiple perspectives are protective. They reduce blind spots and build buy-in.
Except…
…when they encourage us to play it too safe.
Continue reading “Vanilla Strategy”A Topic I’m Tired Of
In this next installment of our mini-series on running better meetings based on what I’m learning as a facilitator lately, we’re going to focus on meeting formats.
It’s a conversation that I’m really sick of, but it keeps coming up in my work, so I guess it needs to come up in my writing too. Because it’s a decision that can make or break your meetings.
Continue reading “A Topic I’m Tired Of”Less Consensus Makes for Better Meetings
This week, I’m shifting gears from “curated content” to “facilitation tips from the trenches,” to catch you up on what I’m learning in the rooms I’m leading.
As a facilitator, I find it much easier to help groups articulate their divergent ideas than to converge around a single idea. So maybe I’m just taking the easier road, but I find myself delaying the search for convergence these days. Here’s why:
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