Much of what we do as group leaders is help our clients make some kind of change. Whether we’re talking about a change to a huge system or a change in a single persons life, the things that stand in the way of change are similar if not the same. The following ten steps will […]
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Celebrate
A personal coach I once had would always begin our sessions coaxing me into celebrating something for the week gone by. Now I’m not one to easily celebrate anything and I often struggle to find something that I think is worthy of celebration. But I’ve since learned that celebrating is simply a matter of choice. […]
Dialogical Listening and Group Development
If we take a thoughtful look under the surface of affairs today at the global, regional, even personal scale, we see that what we once viewed as isolated problems with black and white solutions are actually interconnected webs of cause and effect. We’re beginning to see that our most challenging problems (often emerging from solutions to […]
The Perfection of Imperfection in Group Leadership
Workplace cultures have historically valued objective, tangible, analytical, action orientations while simultaneously undervaluing intangible, subjective, reflective orientations. When this is true, we are rewarded when presenting material evidence, dispassionate, impersonal, “objective” data, and may be discounted, even punished to some extent when expressing subjective, personal, passionate interests and perspectives. In my experience in the workforce, […]
Can Facilitators Claim a Higher Purpose?
History has shown that groups of humans don’t necessarily rise to their highest potential in the presence of the complex environmental, social, cultural, and personal dynamics at play. In the presence of these challenges, facilitation has evolved to become a wonderful tool to help groups navigate the complex task of getting things done together. In […]