Clarity, Momentum, and Better Ways of Working

Short, thoughtful pieces designed to spark insight, support meaningful participation, and strengthen how people collaborate.

Post-it notes are great!
belonging, business, business planning, complexity, consulting, conversation, design, dialogue, discussion, feedback, fun, in-person facilitation, inclusion, intersectionality, lessons, listening, nonprofit, planning, reading, simplicity, strategic planning, team building, teamwork, trends Barbara Pedersen belonging, business, business planning, complexity, consulting, conversation, design, dialogue, discussion, feedback, fun, in-person facilitation, inclusion, intersectionality, lessons, listening, nonprofit, planning, reading, simplicity, strategic planning, team building, teamwork, trends Barbara Pedersen

Post-it notes are great!

Post-it notes (and index cards) on a wall sometimes get a bad rap as a facilitation method. It’s not deserved if they’re facilitated properly using a process such as the Technology of Participation (ToP) Consensus Method, which follows patterns of thinking, feeling, intuiting, analyzing, synthesizing, and deciding.

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“If we hadn’t done that, I couldn’t have done this.”
business, business planning, collaboration, complexity, consulting, conversation, discussion, facilitation, in-person facilitation, inclusion, lessons, listening, online facilitation, planning, process, reading, simplicity, storytelling, strategic planning, team building, teamwork Barbara Pedersen business, business planning, collaboration, complexity, consulting, conversation, discussion, facilitation, in-person facilitation, inclusion, lessons, listening, online facilitation, planning, process, reading, simplicity, storytelling, strategic planning, team building, teamwork Barbara Pedersen

“If we hadn’t done that, I couldn’t have done this.”

“That” was a Historical Scan activity; “this” was goal setting during a strategic planning session. The individual who said this pointed to the wall chart showing four decades of their nonprofit organization’s history and said that knowing their history helped them understand their current situation and plan for their future.

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