IRecently, I’ve been facilitating strategic planning workshops with school leaders and I have found the ‘underlying dynamics’ a powerful lens for understanding what good strategic planning really requires.
Rather than a few people developing a plan on others’ behalf, ToP methods use the underlying dynamics to shift the focus onto the process: enabling genuine participation, drawing out new ideas, and building real commitment.
Faciliate Aotearoa together with our Australian ToP Colleagues are offering online training in Group Facilitation Methods. You will learn and apply two classic Technology of Participation methods that strengthen facilitation practice.
The ToP consensus workshop method brought meaning into end of season debrief sessions, allowing The Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust team members to identify themes, make sense of these and notice changes over 2 years.
Classic ToP strategic processes combined with tools and techniques that responded to the group dynamics resulted in a full and constructive day of shared perspectives, creativity, consideration and clarification of where to go and how to get there.
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵? This was the focus of a recent...
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