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Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions

Idea Architects

Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? Too often strategy conversations are anything but strategic. Participants bring their past experiences and present expectations to the strategy effort.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? Letting ideas flow freely seems like the opposite of the filtering process required for critical thinking.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Timeless Questions, Timely Tactics

Idea Architects

Any answers identified during a planning process are temporary by nature. Over the years, Ive developed a dozen questions to draw on during strategy conversations, ones that while timeless in nature almost always can generate new and timely responses. Labels: facilitation , questions , strategy. Dec 2002 (6). Newer Post.

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Leadership Limerick: Innovation Requires Many Contributions

Idea Architects

Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Instruments like the Team Dimensions Profile or the KAI, Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory , can help assess the contributions individuals can make to the innovation process. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Watch Out for Unintended.

Idea Architects

Your internal processes and procedures for vetting ideas cut off interesting and potentially breakthrough possibilities that the current data doesn’t support or portend? Your dashboard indicators or balanced scorecard become not just metrics for gauging progress, but also mantras by which all strategy and tactics are determined?

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Facilitation Friday #29: Six Questions for Decision-Making

Idea Architects

Managing participative decision-making, particularly with diverse individuals who may come from various departments or functional areas, requires strong group process and facilitation skills. Regardless of the tools used or process selected, some of the core questions facilitators must help groups answer include: 1. Dec 2002 (6).

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Facilitation Friday #19: Resisiting Resistance is Futile

Idea Architects

The process. Sometimes people are committed to the purpose of the gathering, but resist the process. A strategy session with only staff feels different than one including both staff members and board members or other volunteers. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3).