Speed Networking Prompt
• Find someone you do not know in the room.
• Introduce yourself and chat about why you chose to attend this session on Liberating Structures.
TRIZ Prompt
• How can we cultivate an environment in which people do not feel free to express diverse opinions or perspectives? What can we do to make people feel unwelcome and unsafe? Be specific.
• What are we doing in our own practice that in any way resembles this?
• What steps can we take to flip it?
TRIZ Stop counterproductive activities and behaviors
to make space for innovation
1. Make a list of all you can do to make sure that you achieve the worst result imaginable.
2. Go down this list item by item and ask yourselves, ‘Is there anything that we are currently doing that in any way, shape, or form resembles this item?’
3. Go through the items on your second list and decide what first steps will help you stop what you know creates undesirable results?
Is this elephant in your room?
• Deadly boring meetings
• Wondering why people don’t speak up
• Group process that feels like drudgery
• Separating the deciders from the doers
• Excluding people because it slows you down
• Great ideas that never leave the drawing board
Over-Controlled Presentation/Lecture
• Too uniform• Engaging only one
person or a select few in shaping direction
• Flow in one direction
?
Conventional StructuresToo Tight or Too Loose
Presentation
• Too uniform
• Engaging only one person or a select few in shaping direction
• Flow in one direction
Open Discussion
• Under-controlled• Too unstable • Too random to
shape direction
Liberating StructuresDistributed, tight and loose
• Diverse yet interdependent relationships
• Distributed control, flow from any point, any direction
• As the action unfolds, direction is shaped by participants themselves out of local interaction
Liberating Structures Introducing tiny shifts in how we meet, plan,
decide and relate to one another
• Simple• Expert-less• Results-focused• Rapid cycling
• Inclusive• Multi-scale• Seriously fun• Self-spreading
Sources of Knowing and InnovatingThree levels of individual and collective agency
Explicit: What people tell you they know or need in a focus group
Tacit: What you can observe people doing
Emergent: What you can invent together that is not yet enacted
How to Generate
Finding best practices, separating know-how from local context
Drawing out embodied or hidden know-how in a local context
Actualizing what is possible now
Sources of Knowing
Explicit
Tacit
Emergent
How to Generate
Finding best practices, separating know-how from local context
Drawing out embodied or hidden know-how in a local context
Actualizing what is possible now
Sources of Knowing
Explicit
Tacit
Emergent
1-2-4-All Prompt
• On your own, think of a time when you have had success in engaging faculty in relation to your office mission.
• Share your experience with another person.• Now, you and your partner connect with
another pair. • In a group of 4, work together to identify
common themes. What do those experiences teach you about what works?
1-2-4-AllEngage Everyone Simultaneously in Generating
Questions, Ideas, and Suggestions
• Self, pairs, foursomes, whole group• Equal time and opportunity for everyone• Face to face interaction between participants• 1 minute alone, 2 minutes in pairs, 4 minutes in
foursomes, 5 minute for whole group
What, So What, Now What? W³Together, Look Back on Progress and Decide
What to Do Moving Forward
• WHAT? What happened? What did you notice, what facts or observations stood out?
• SO WHAT? Why is that important? What patterns or conclusions are emerging? What hypotheses can you make?
• NOW WHAT? What actions make sense?
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