Posts Tagged ‘systems thinking’
Facilitating Strategic Planning for Social Impact
. Over the last few months, I have posted a series of articles on strategic planning for nonprofit and social sector agencies. Not surprising, a number of potential client calls are from folks looking for facilitation and process support for strategic planning. Indeed in this anemic economy, many nonprofit agencies find ...Read More
Facilitating Beyond the Crisis in Thinking
. Typically, my posts try to capture original thoughts related to facilitation and process. This week, however, has been one of rich discovery and learning from the words of others. In this post, I am lacing together the knowledge of others in a synthesis of ideas to reinforce my practice foundation ...Read More
Facilitating for Simplicity and Clarity
. I have been using Twitter in my practice for about six months now. My account @facilitationpro is primarily a place where I promote and cultivate the practice of information scanning and knowledge management. To stay current in the fields of performance improvement, nonprofit management and trends in philanthropy, I scan ...Read More
Constructivism in Facilitation
. Once a couple of years ago, I was in a car listening to my sister swear at the voice on her car’s GPS system and I once rented a car with the sometimes handy device. Until recently, that was the extent of my expertise with car directional GPS systems but ...Read More
Facilitating for Government & Governance
. Over the course of my career I have studied with many talented facilitation mentors from both the organizational development world and the world of community organization. Studying and, more importantly, practicing in both worlds has helped me develop an understanding that there are two facilitation disciplines that require different sets ...Read More
Using Taxonomies in Facilitation
. Thinking ahead to the new year? Check out the services Facilitation & Process, LLC offers. Also follow the Resource of the Day on Twitter . If you have been following this blog, you likely already know that my goal is to move beyond “Facilitation 101” and focus on the deeper context of facilitation, which I ...Read More
Facilitating Models of Social Impact
. I will confess that I am a visual learner. I like to not only see the big picture but to be able to draw it as well. This inclination towards a visual process has served me well in facilitation. In fact, I have staked out the position that visual learning is ...Read More
Measuring Network Effects in Community Engagement
. At the most basic level all facilitated group processes can and should be measured across the two dimensions of process and outcomes. Process examines the road you took to get to where you wanted to end up, and outcomes measure whether or not you got to your destiny. In one ...Read More
Facilitating Community Engagement: Skills and Competencies
. I have been fortunate enough through my career to have sat as a member of community coalitions and advisory groups that were highly effective. In my Master's degree program I studied community engagement processes and been mentored by some very skilled community leaders. I have also had the fortune of ...Read More
Strategic Planning: Accountability Matters
. This is the final post in a four part series on creating the right context for strategic planning. In the first post I outlined the need to match strategic planning process to your organizational culture. In the second post discussed the need to have a clear and focused change or ...Read More