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Facilitation Friday #9: Build Capacity to Accomplish More

Idea Architects

Its definition of success also includes helping a group or team learn together so they might be more productive in the future. A great resource for this work is Norman Kerth's Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews. Thanks for the suggested resource Adrian. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2).

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Facilitation Friday #29: Six Questions for Decision-Making

Idea Architects

Absent this collective definition of success and individuals (and individual department areas) participate in the discussions trying to affect a decision that supports what they believe success to look like. When definitions of success compete, thoughtful deliberations of the issue at-hand often degenerate into protecting self-interests.

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Conferences Aren't Serious About Networking Unless

Idea Architects

For smaller conferences, have an area with games, puzzles, books and resources similar to what you find in the lobby of an old-fashioned resort. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3). Jun 2002 (2). May 2002 (4). May 2004 (5). Jan 2004 (3). Oct 2003 (1).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Quotes About Change, Resilience.

Idea Architects

Whether the scarce resource is money or love or power or words, the true law of life is that we generate more of whatever seems scarce by trusting its supply and passing it around.". “An organization should, by definition, function organically. . “An organization should, by definition, function organically.

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New Style Guide Helps Journalists Cover Diversity Topics More Accurately

Associations Now

While CIIJ released a diversity guide in the 1990s that covered ethnicity and disability, it had not been updated since 2002. The new guide expands coverage to include immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, religion, and geography, in addition to race, ethnicity, and disability.

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It's good to step back every now and then

Idea Architects

Looking back If I judged my success since founding Idea Architects in 2002 by business volume alone, it’s been a nice decade for the most part. C ontext and connections for the abundance of content : more sense, connections, and deeper meaning made of the reading and resources that are just being skimmed, if noticed at all.

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Thinking and thriving

Aaron Wolowiec

After serving as an association executive for more than 10 years, De Cagna launched his company in 2002 to challenge association boards, CEOs and executives to build their organizations to thrive in an uncertain future. Simply doing more of what your association has always done definitely is the wrong answer,” De Cagna said. “It