‘ Each Wednesday we post a photograph that illustrates some of our work. This one shows our combination of two principles: phrasing questions with ‘How Might We…’ stimulates divergent thinking, and inviting groups to self-organize increases the engagement of people in them (which increases performance). In this case, the leader made an explicit grant of authority to the group to determine it’s optimal structure as […]
Each Wednesday we post a photograph that illustrates some of our work. This one shows how we gathered data privately about participants’ openness and willingness at the start of a team-based workshop. We passed a file folder around the room so each participant could answer independently, then posted the results for all to see. Helping a group orient to itself, and itself, is one of […]
Each Wednesday we post a photograph that illustrates some of our work. This one shows summarized a two-week learning journey we took some clients on, and helped them sharpen their sense of where’d they’d been, what they’d gotten along the way, and what they might do next. Participants who expect ‘training’ sometimes are caught off guard by this level of personal accountability. That’s why we […]
We’re digging through the many insights of PSFK Labs‘ 2015 report The Future of Work ($495). Among its four major themes and sixteen minor themes, we recognize many that our clients and colleagues face each day in their businesses. For us, one of the signature workplace questions of this decade is how best to integrate the new generation of professional workers into teams and companies that […]
Each Wednesday we post a photograph that illustrates some of our work. This one shows the connection preferences of a globally dispersed team who, after working together for a year, met for the first time in one room. Despite the barriers of time, distance, role, rank, and culture, they found it gratifying to discover they shared the same wishes for how to remain in contact […]
Each Wednesday we post a photograph that illustrates some of our work. This one shows a workplace joke we found on the ceiling of a meeting room one day during setup for a workshop. We’re always on the lookout for the subtle and sublime clues to how culture gets expressed in the workplace. In this case, we waited the entire day before pointing out the […]