A little while ago my colleague Dr Garth Britton and I began thinking about the ways in which our work as consultants and coaches had changed over the past five years. At the time we developed a very rough description of an approach we called Open-Ended Consulting based on some broad broad patterns we had …
Recently I had the pleasure of introducing Jennifer Garvey-Berger, co-author of the book Simple habits for complex times: powerful practices for leaders[1], before she led a workshop for coaches, consultants and organizational development leaders on the topic, “Supporting our clients in an increasingly complex world”. What follows is a modified version of my introduction. For more than …
In my a recent post I explored what kind of practice might support “rapid and fluid midcourse correction”. During last week New Zealand based consultant, Stephen Billing, posted a short video on his Changing Organisations blog. In it he explored the idea of joint enquiry. I liked the video because Stephen speaks about joint enquiry …
“In participating, if we do so fully, we encounter the otherness of others, and if we can remain open to this otherness, this difference, we are offered a glimpse of our own limitations. By finding ways of rubbing along with those who are like us but are not us we can experience the possibility of …
Several weeks ago I facilitated a full day meeting of a policy/strategy division of a larger organisation. While this meeting was “named” as a planning day in fact, as we discussed what we would do and what people wanted out of the meeting, it became much more of a day of “thinking out loud”. Most …