Breaking Through Constraints (SSIR)

The practice of transformative facilitation involves gradually and iteratively building consensus and clarity about what is going on in the group’s situation (through cycling between advocating and inquiring), where the group wants to get to (through cycling between concluding and advancing), and how they will get there (through cycling between map

Remove the obstacles that slow things down or create roadblocks to progress. Clear the way for people to innovate, work more nimbly across silos, and generate impact quickly.

In transformative facilitation, such responsive improvisation is therefore a sign not of failure but of success.

more fundamental solution of the bottom loop: redesigning the entire project management system, and rethinking the ordinary roadblocks and formalities. But this strategy would take longer, and less attention is…

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Complex facilitation An approach to facilitation designed to encourage emergence and allow for diversity. In contrast, more traditional rules of facilitation create planned activities with no variability in mind. In complex facilitation, we disrupt regular group dynamics, and facilitate through encouraging emergence and flow.

When this happens across teams, organizations become significantly more resilient. But there is a hurdle. There is a significant gap between ideology and implementation that is confusing and difficult to navigate. This gap is preventing teams who would otherwise be high performers from reaching their full potential and maximizing output. Come Up fo