participatory leadership

Everywhere participatory meetings are used, skeptics shift to tentative engagement and then to lively creativity. The power of collective imagination is waiting in every room.

Every organization is already a learning organization. The real question is whether people are learning things that benefit the work – or things that don't.

Mastermind groups rise and fall. Understanding what makes the difference between one that thrives for decades and one that fizzles in weeks is worth knowing.

The Medicine Wheel Tool functions as a navigational compass for leadership and organizational development – one simple tool that works across coaching, problem clarification, project development, and more.

Everyone wants things to be better – and yet change isn't happening. Four organizational change barriers appear in nearly every organization, and all four must be addressed.

The best way to begin building a culture of leadership is with a meeting. Open Space Technology lets you start exactly where you are.

A well-designed retreat needs a cohesive operating matrix that holds all activities together. Without one, cognitive dissonance replaces the energy needed for real innovation.

Whole system meetings involve everyone with a stake in the change – and accomplish in hours or days what conventionally structured processes take weeks or months to achieve.

After three decades of practice, eleven factors consistently appear in change efforts that succeed. The more of them present, the greater the likelihood of achieving the desired outcomes.

Engagement in a change process means commitment to the entire journey. Aborted processes – especially those with real staff involvement – leave damage that takes years to heal.