Category: Facilitation Tools
Practical tools for running sessions that go somewhere. Structures, exercises, meeting design and the mechanics of getting a group to think together rather than take turns talking.
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Could Better Questions Lead to Better Organisation Development?
Part 2 of 3 · A series by Brian Hunter Young What If Organisation Development Has Been Looking in the Wrong Place? Could Better Questions Lead to Better Organisation Development? (you are here) Who Decides What Organisational Values Really Mean? What if the greatest contribution organisation development can make is not designing […]
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The Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model
The Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model is a seven-stage framework developed by Allan Drexler and David Sibbet at The Grove Consultants International. It was designed as a visual map that tracks a team’s journey from initial orientation through to high performance and renewal, with each stage having both a resolved and an unresolved […]
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The Four Stages of Competence: From Unconscious Incompetence to Mastery
The Conscious Competence Model describes four stages that people move through when learning a new skill: unconscious incompetence (you do not know what you do not know), conscious incompetence (you become painfully aware of the gap), conscious competence (you can do it, but it requires deliberate effort), and unconscious competence (the skill […]
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Team and Other Meetings: Designing Spaces That Work
Meetings are not just logistical events. They’re opportunities to strengthen culture, connection, and clarity. Different types of meetings (team meetings, project stand-ups, problem-solving sessions, etc.) require different structures and mindsets. Great meetings are intentional, inclusive, and energizing, while bad meetings are draining, confusing and often performative. Leaders shape meeting culture through design, […]
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The Career Life-Line Activity: A Reflective Career Development Tool
The “career life-line” is a reflective activity that involves thinking through your career and drawing a line mapping how engaged you were in work (or another factor) against the time in your career. Career Life-lines Career life-lines are a very simple yet helpful tool for reflecting on what matters at work. A […]
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MORE PIES – Active Listening Skills from Andrew B Brown
MORE PIES is an acronym to remember some active listening best practice as shared by our good friend, Andrew B Brown. It stands for: Minimal encouragers, Open-ended questions, Reflecting / mirroring, Emotional Labeling and Paraphrasing, I Messages, Effective Pauses and Summary. MORE PIES MORE PIES is an acronym to help us remember […]
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Humble Inquiry – Meaningful Connection Through Genuine Interest
Humble Inquiry is a description and phrase brought to life by Edgar Schein. At its core it means adopting a humble approach and asking genuine questions of others in an effort to learn, connect and build a meaningful relationship. Humble Inquiry Humble Inquiry, a phrase coined by Edgar Schein, was explained by […]
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The 4 P’S of Knowing – Per John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist, talks about there being four different types of knowledge: propositional, procedural, perspectival and participatory. The 4 Ps of Knowledge John Vervaeke, (Cognitive Science, University of Toronto) talks about there being four different types of knowledge: propositional, procedural, perspectival and participatory. Propositional Propositional knowledge is the knowledge of […]
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A Group or a Team: What’s the Difference?
There are differences between a disparate group of people and a team. Understanding what these differences are, makes it easier to go from being a group to being an effective team. A Group and a Team Sometimes people assume that if they get together as a group of people that they will […]
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What is Productive Behaviour – A Provocation
It’s easy to only consider activities that immediately result in an output as productive behaviour. However, to succeed, we need to widen our sense of what productive behaviour is, particularly in complex environments and in remote and hybrid teams. What is Productivity? In our work, we often ask people to explore what […]
