Articles: Facilitation Tools
What is Productive Behaviour – A Provocation
It's easy to only consider activities that immediately result in an output as productive behaviour. However, to succeed, we [...]
Tom Wolff’s Power of Collaborative Solutions
Tom Wolff's Power of Collaborative Solutions is a six step process that helps bring disparate groups together in civil [...]
The Wolf Parable – A Parable of Mindset
The Wolf Parable is story about the inner conflicts we face in how we approach others and our personal [...]
The Johari Window: A Helpful Interpersonal Awareness Tool
The Johari Window is a four box tool that helps people think about the differences between how they see [...]
The Ease / Benefit Matrix: A Simple Prioritization Tool
The Ease / Benefit matrix is a simple tool which helps with prioritizing actions. It works by comparing how [...]
The Choulateca Bridge Incident: Lessons on acceptance and change
The Choluteca Bridge is a nearly indestructable bridge comissioned by the Honduran government to cross the Choluteca rivier. In [...]
The Career Life-Line Activity: A Reflective Career Development Tool
The "career life-line" is a reflective activity that involves thinking through your career and drawing a line mapping how [...]
The 4 P’S of Knowing – Per John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist, talks about there being four different types of knowledge: propositional, procedural, perspectival and participatory. [...]
Team Building Activities: A Simple Introduction
Team building activities are designed to help build relationships and understanding within a group of individuals so that they [...]
Silent Brainstorming: An Essential Facilitation Tool
Silent Brainstorming (or silent storming) is a quick way for a group to come up with a lot of [...]
MORE PIES – Active Listening Skills from Andrew B Brown
MORE PIES is an acronym to remember some active listening best practice as shared by our good friend, Andrew [...]
Locke and Latham’s Goal Setting Theory: Set Better Goals
Locke and Latham's goal setting theory details five key principles that support the creation of effective and motivating goals. [...]
Introducing Team Huddles: How To Implement Them
Huddles (short, sharp, focused, daily stand up team meetings) are highly effective. However, introducing team huddles take time and [...]
Humble Inquiry – Meaningful Connection Through Genuine Interest
Humble Inquiry is a description and phrase brought to life by Edgar Schein. At its core it means adopting [...]
Huddles or Stand up Meetings: A Simple Introduction
Huddles or stand up meetings are short, sharp, focused, daily team meetings. They involve the whole team and take [...]
How to run a World Café or Knowledge Café
A world café (AKA knowledge café) is a large group discussion in which smaller sub-groups rotate around tables discussing [...]
How to Chair Huddles Well
Huddles are short, sharp, focused, daily stand up team meetings. They can be highly effective, but they need to [...]
E183 – What Makes A Good Organisational Psychologist? With Dr. Hayley Lewis – Part 2
The workplace is not just a place for us to utilize our technical skills; it is also a place [...]
E169 – Management Challenges: Poor Behaviors In Meetings
Addressing poor behaviors in team meetings is not only important to create a positive work environment, but also [...]
E167 – From Theory To Practice: Applying Evidence-Based Learning Strategies With Helen Bailey
Data-driven learning is not just about improving performance; it's about transforming potential into possibility. In today's fast-paced world, [...]
E133 – Business Reinvention Labs (w Perry Timms)
James and Jane are joined again by friend of the show, author and founder of PTHR to talk about [...]
E129 – Virtual Meetings (W Dr. Joe Allen)
James and Jane are joined by Dr Joe Allen (Psychology at University of Utah Health and Director the Center for [...]
E117 – Agile Working (w/ Sathpal Singh)
James and Jane are joined by Sath to speak about all things agile. The conversation explores what Agile is, where [...]
E058: Career Narratives
In this episode we discuss the power of stories and the stories we tell ourselves both in society and in [...]