Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness
With innovation and complexity within your work, Nine Windows will develop new paths and emergent strategies for making a change.
When Then Time for personal wellness and progress
The process of choosing a time and looking backward to define what you want to Do More Of, and Do Less Of – then – creating action steps will create a better feeling of control and support your progress to change.
Different Perspectives to Solve Problems
Current Method Better Way supports innovation within a team by showing multiple perspectives on a process or challenge. Building resilient teams.
Team Learning from reviewing what works and how to improve
Team Debriefs help individuals/teams “make sense” of highly equivocal and ambiguous situations, learn from them, and perform better and safer moving forward.
Decision Making Antonyms and Story Telling
Complex decision-making is stronger when the choices and ideas are stretched, manipulated, and challenged – this is how you create psychological-safety in teams.
solution-focused coaching finding what works video
I had the honor of sharing the SOLVEDmethod solution-focused team and leadership coaching with ATD Buffalo Niagara, above is an excellent video they made from our time. What Is SOLVED? SOLVED is an acronym for a process of solution-finding. While using the cards, you can choose to use them in the SOLVED order – initially suggested – … Continued
How do we make bad things in companies discussable?
Images from “Behind You” by Brian Coldrick Bad things happen within your team and company. Plus, the bad stuff hides when culturally and behaviorally, being the bearer of bad news is punished or burdened with management hyperbole, “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.” Working with management teams the surprise or lack of knowledge about potential … Continued
Growth Mindset and Behavior Change
Video of 3-days of design thinking, team building and leadership work with over 200 SUNY Buffalo State College students. Growth Mindset and Taking Actions on Behavior Change: Students will reflect on current behaviors and gain feedback from others (extrospection) on which behaviors are helpful and hurtful to academic success. Students will articulate and develop a small action … Continued
Resilient Organizations Develop With Time
After spending a week in Vancouver, BC, Canada, attending the Cynefin Retreat on organization design for emergence, I was moved to learn new ideas, leave some outdated concepts behind, and reinforce our progress together. This made me think: How can you create more resilience to ideas and innovation within organizations? Using an ecological viewpoint of … Continued
Process to gather what is and is not working within the organization
The more straightforward and understandable the tool or process within organization development, the more likely it will make a difference. The simpler the tool, the greater the requirement of the consultant or expert to suppress themselves and their expertise. When you remove the translator (the expert) from the results and ask people to gather narrative … Continued