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Gaming Change: Four Enablers of Implementing Disruptive Change appreciative inquiry blog change disruption emergence entrepreneurship feedback focus organization design Jun 28, 2013

I recently facilitated a one-day change readiness workshop for an organisation embarking on a significant organisational change initiative. In essence, the change initiative invited the organisation to shift is cultural mindset from one of ‘problem finding, solution identification‘...

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Collaborative Conversations for Change appreciative inquiry blog change co-creation collaboration commitment communication conversion dialogue Jun 24, 2013

The conversations a social system has about itself – who it is, what it has, and what it wants for itself into the future – will impact its current level of viability determine its future potential. Collaborative Conversations involve the intentional use of conversation as...

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The Chaordic Stepping Stones as a Tool for Designing Large-scale Interventions appreciative inquiry blog chaordic organisation community of practice design emergence powerful questions purpose social change wisdom Mar 12, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I was having dinner with some friends and chatting about a colleagues upcoming UnConference in Adelaide. Together we were exploring some potential design elements for the conference and how these might be stitched together to form a cohered whole that would deliver the...

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How Can Your Organisation Also be a Community of Practice appreciative inquiry blog cofp community of practice evolve harvesting purpose Mar 12, 2013

Last month I was invited by a friend, Peter McDonald, to spend a day with him establishing a new Community of Practice (CofP) focused on Community Development. His organisation is Uniting Communities and it works with some of the more disadvantaged elements of society...

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A philosophy on strategy development offered within the emergent ‘frame’ of Appreciative Inquiry appreciative inquiry blog complexity emergence precencing strategy Oct 12, 2011

Earlier this year I was invited by the Leaders Institute of South Australia to facilitate an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) grounded cross-organisational Think Tank to identify and prototype ‘lighthouse initiatives’ for  enhancing employee and workplace wellbeing (for more information...

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How can Appreciative Inquiry be embodied as a practice of Inner Leadership? appreciative inquiry blog leadership self-development Aug 09, 2011

Last week I hosted an Open Space Technology (OST) session as part of a leadership development program I am facilitating with a colleague, Diana Coverdale. I love OST not only as a process, but also as a set of guiding principles and philosophy for how leaders could lead and how...

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Appreciative Inquiry and the experience of meaningful work appreciative inquiry blog cofp evolve four fold path harvesting organisational design Jul 29, 2011

Imagine working in an environment where waking up each morning to go to work made your heart sing. And imagine a working environment where everyone else felt the same.

Now imagine working in a role that fully utilised the very knowledge, skills and experience that you most loved about yourself...

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