tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.comments2023-07-13T05:50:17.393-04:00Communication :: Collaboration :: ConsensusSandy Schumanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-49448604842820458612022-04-21T13:15:52.533-04:002022-04-21T13:15:52.533-04:00It's important to be clear and direct as to yo...It's important to be clear and direct as to your purpose in accordance with your position. Clarity is a very important factor for understanding.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04681895372012566187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-2570624701227502642015-05-30T09:03:20.754-04:002015-05-30T09:03:20.754-04:00Typos excused. And it's nice to see that the t...Typos excused. And it's nice to see that the the top scoring results in the "serious" list all came from the Statement of Values and Ethics. I hope we'll reconnect before long.Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-39875585942644573082015-05-29T22:17:56.455-04:002015-05-29T22:17:56.455-04:00darn, I can't seem to write unless its with a ...darn, I can't seem to write unless its with a marker. Sorry about the typos. ^life. ^IAFISunny Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173385277375049022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-48235841981641794982015-05-29T22:16:41.063-04:002015-05-29T22:16:41.063-04:00Omg, you nailed my lifr...AND, since you know me, ...Omg, you nailed my lifr...AND, since you know me, you knew that. I think of you every time I hand out the IAS statement of values and ethics. Miss seeing you in person! Big hug.Sunny Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173385277375049022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-29240121003314648662015-05-24T10:05:35.463-04:002015-05-24T10:05:35.463-04:00I think your idea of a list of roadblocks could be...I think your idea of a list of roadblocks could be insightful. As an example, building on your observation that many people do not feel respected by their bosses, how's this:<br /><br />You facilitate a meeting so your subordinates will feel involved and consulted because you want them to buy into the decision you have already made.Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-36400931665601561922015-05-24T09:52:24.696-04:002015-05-24T09:52:24.696-04:00Excellent! I am trying to work up an online superv...Excellent! I am trying to work up an online supervisor facilitation "course" using my Square Wheels theme (now in LEGO!) with the goal of allowing a person to go through the simple course and being prepared to have a meeting with their people. I would suggest that a few of these would apply directly to the supervisor who asks for involvement and engagement of their people in rolling things forward more better faster. <br /><br />I read these as "Professional Facilitator" frameworks.<br /><br />And I wonder what items would apply to a manager or supervisor simply trying to facilitate a group discussion...<br /><br />In a related way, I wonder what a list of things that roadblock organizational facilitation would look like. Seems like an awful lot of managers feel that involving people and facilitating discussions simply cannot be accomplished in their workplaces. 50% of people do not feel that their boss respects them, as one supporting datapoint.<br /><br />Your thoughts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-70584329802322262002015-05-18T18:30:48.956-04:002015-05-18T18:30:48.956-04:00I still have toy frogs! Oh, the things we do for a...I still have toy frogs! Oh, the things we do for a little fun!Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-4384091607149907522014-11-02T17:38:45.219-05:002014-11-02T17:38:45.219-05:00Hi Sandy: As a long time fan of Spock, at work I t...Hi Sandy: As a long time fan of Spock, at work I thought I tried to deal with my staff, and the staff in general that way. <br />In my personal experiemce, how do you deal thst have closed minds and do not want to have a rationsl discussion,?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188145445143533730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-45555303615327085522014-11-02T17:37:00.630-05:002014-11-02T17:37:00.630-05:00I hope you had a positive experience collaborating...I hope you had a positive experience collaborating with me for a session at DDD was a positive experience; we had a tough cynical audience. I still remember the toy frogs. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188145445143533730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-41417976672548658422014-09-24T11:46:35.003-04:002014-09-24T11:46:35.003-04:00Additional comments from the Facilitation Professi...Additional comments from the Facilitation Professionals LinkedIn Group:<br /><br />Geoffrey Manthey<br /><br />Was thinking of more ways and then I got to number 18. LOL<br /><br />Andy Claughton<br /><br />You know how to peel off a Post-It without it ending up curly.<br /><br />Eris Weaver<br /><br />...if you always carry flip charts and easels in your car, just in case.<br /><br />Pam Finnie<br /><br />You redistribute the markers you absent mindedly picked up in one organisation to other organsiations in order to alleviate the guilt of picking them up.<br /><br />Eddie Kerr<br /><br />...if you know when to make a tactical intervention and when to make a strategic withdrawal and of course the best time to say nothing and let everyone else make the comments.......your turn.....<br /><br />Nati Danielson<br /><br />When you dont the answer and instead of parking it, you turn into a game/challenge and first one to find it wins...<br /><br />John Bright<br /><br />When you answer questions with a question even when your not facilitating....that really frustrates my wife an kiddos!<br /><br />Beatrice Briggs<br /><br />Along the same lines of "even when you are not facilitating"...You summarize what others have said and check that you accurately captured their ideas before sharing your own thoughts. Some people find this irritating :)<br /><br />Kymberly Dakin, M Ed. Adult Education<br /><br />You can argue the various merits of Post-it flipcharts over traditional flipcharts. You tend, in conversation, (even though you know you shouldn't!) to "type" people according to their expected roles in a group discussion: 1st/2nd Adaptor, Skeptic, Resistor, AND by their Myers-Briggs Type OR their _______ type......<br /><br />Alton Williams<br /><br />When your family and friends in vole you when they have differences in prospective.<br /><br />Chuck Teegarden<br /><br />Great blog! You could have mentioned something about possessing large and small adhesive dots of various colors!<br /><br />Sandor Schuman<br /><br />Good point, Chuck Teegarden, and the strips of dots are cut to various lengths to limit the number of dots each person gets.<br /><br />Jan Lelie<br /><br />... when you're able just "to be present".<br />... when you understand the answer to a good question is "I don't know".<br />... when you accept the situation is desperate, but not hopeless.<br /><br />Enrique Barajas<br /><br />When you're observing another facilitaor and day dreaming (maybe fantasizing) about how you'd approach a scenario differently throughout the entire process.<br /><br />Nicole Paquet<br /><br />Great list! Here's another one ... When a group is amazed (and very sceptical at first) at your ability to translate all those flip chart notes into a meaningful, coherent, articulate report!<br /><br />Cordell Wesselink<br /><br />When you're at a party or just with a group of friends and you can't help but ask a meaningful question to get the group talking on a deeper level.<br />Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-70465756487523694832014-09-08T23:49:09.563-04:002014-09-08T23:49:09.563-04:00Here goes another one: You know you are a facilita...Here goes another one: You know you are a facilitator, when you enter a meeting/training room and the first thing you look at are the wallsHectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07173296006983136424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-72258605948592584302014-08-27T02:27:26.150-04:002014-08-27T02:27:26.150-04:00You have numerous butchers paper pads in your offi...You have numerous butchers paper pads in your office, in varying states of use & age!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286125156868012751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-55542405376744271722014-08-27T01:55:33.403-04:002014-08-27T01:55:33.403-04:00Love it Sandy. Will post on IAF Oceania LinkedIn a...Love it Sandy. Will post on IAF Oceania LinkedIn and Facebook - also retweeted from @IAFOceania.<br />Another way - was about to add but see 'Anonymous' has covered it.Rhonda Trankshttp://www.illumaconsulting.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-12186060401351422552014-08-26T22:30:25.377-04:002014-08-26T22:30:25.377-04:00These made me laugh, as they are spot on....ANOTHE...These made me laugh, as they are spot on....ANOTHER way you know you are a facilitator, when the group thinks they could have gotten there (the outcome) without you, but it was nice having you. :) (it just seemed so effortless)<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-28986074077284061612014-04-01T11:20:31.048-04:002014-04-01T11:20:31.048-04:00Apparently the Ngram Viewer graphs are not visible...Apparently the Ngram Viewer graphs are not visible in Internet Explorer. Try Firefox or Chrome.Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-53288848435337243362014-03-28T19:30:31.353-04:002014-03-28T19:30:31.353-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963030437033734702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-31068617047012635202014-03-28T05:22:56.395-04:002014-03-28T05:22:56.395-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963030437033734702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-28929022022835115162014-03-16T10:12:34.507-04:002014-03-16T10:12:34.507-04:00"Let me tell you how my father, at the end of..."Let me tell you how my father, at the end of his life, listened to people. He’d sit down with someone and ask them, how are you, and he’d really mean it. My Dad’s ego died a couple of years before he did. His life no longer circled around itself. ..." <br />Read this one: http://peacefulbodyschool.com/2014/02/28/how-are-you/Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-73431272506365427752014-03-16T06:01:45.713-04:002014-03-16T06:01:45.713-04:00Interesting graph and informative. thanks for shar...Interesting graph and informative. thanks for sharing. i enjoyed reading your postSridharhttp://ipersuade.blogspot.in/2013/10/how-to-persuade-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-58866307410934235772014-03-07T13:47:09.244-05:002014-03-07T13:47:09.244-05:00This makes sense to me, Sandy… I tend to think of ...This makes sense to me, Sandy… I tend to think of the general process as a "this, or something better…", where "this" is the proposal that the Decider will be implementing as a default in the absence of "something better", while the "something better" is a shared outcome that everyone, including the Decider, feels is better than the original proposal. <br /><br />I do think this works best, if the Decider is a full participant in the exploration for a "something better." In Dynamic Facilitation, we usually ask the Decided to go first in the "purging" process, since we find that participants tend to be more comfortable participating once they know where leadership stands on a particular issue. Our process is more co-sensing than consensus, yet we share the aim of arriving at outcomes that everyone is truly excited about. Rosa Z.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06865766788759680875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-49295227848485408112014-03-07T13:35:59.815-05:002014-03-07T13:35:59.815-05:00Looks very interesting, Sandy… thanks for posting....Looks very interesting, Sandy… thanks for posting.Rosa Z.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06865766788759680875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-55641191006121235542013-10-27T08:21:43.743-04:002013-10-27T08:21:43.743-04:00Hi Sandor! As a lifelong fan of Spock, I am deligh...Hi Sandor! As a lifelong fan of Spock, I am delighted with having the opportunity to read a letter from him! :-) :-) :-) The only thing that I would add, is that as facilitators, we have the opportunity to exercise the "New Vulcan Mind Meld" with each person present at a meeting. When we do this, other people begin to learn it too... inductively rather than deductively, as attitudes can be caught instead of taught.... As you know, I offer trainings for facilitators, on Advanced Approaches to Vulcan Mind Melding...:-) :-) :-) . www.diapraxis.comRosa Z.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06865766788759680875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-35365573980762047162013-10-27T08:20:02.478-04:002013-10-27T08:20:02.478-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rosa Z.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06865766788759680875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-83806022898288919422013-05-31T11:31:51.170-04:002013-05-31T11:31:51.170-04:00It sounds like you have the abstract but not the f...It sounds like you have the abstract but not the full article. Am I right about that? If so, you should be able to obtain the full article from your local library through interlibrary loan. In a separate blog post I will excerpt Table 1, an overview of the process intervention, although some of it is cryptic without the entire article.<br /><br /><br /><br />Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5133094372127145968.post-39858000452291864232013-05-30T15:50:18.579-04:002013-05-30T15:50:18.579-04:00Sandy, the paper you cite seems interesting but th...Sandy, the paper you cite seems interesting but there are no tables or description of the methodology in the abstract. Could you shed any light on these?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18010076132751286109noreply@blogger.com