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Facilitating Culture-Defining Meetings

Ronica and I care deeply about shaping organizational culture, as we’ve seen culture shape our own and others’ engagement, creativity, success and joy. We recently ran a workshop to help others shape and improve their culture in meetings.

By Christine Hudson, 8 months8 months ago
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Deliver with Confidence

7 Hidden Benefits of Big Room Planning (BRP)

By popular request: A blog post summarizing the many reasons you might choose to do “big room planning” (BRP) sessions. The secret is that practicing together creates powerful experiences that can change beliefs, actions, behaviors, results and, ultimately, your business culture. What additional benefits has your team experienced from big Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
Practice Makes Culture

How to facilitate leaders without decision authority

Guide to recommendations rather than decisions In a strategy workshop or other big room planning event, we are often trying to help a group of leaders make some hard choices–strategy should clarify what NOT to do as much as where to focus effort. We push hard for the group to Read more…

By Ronica Roth, 2 years2 years ago
Lead with Heart

Using Habit to Combat Fixed Mindset and Imposter Syndrome

Lately I’ve been really appreciating the growth mindset of Eric, my friend, business partner and–this spring–skiing partner. In this, just his second season of skiing, he’s progressing quickly, and now he’s leading us down some of the hardest mogul runs at Mary Jane (where I’ve been skiing the blacks for Read more…

By Ronica Roth, 2 years2 years ago
Deliver with Confidence

A Small, Simple–and Critical–Move Toward Better Meetings

Look in your calendar. How clear is the desired outcome of each meeting you’ll attend today? How is each meeting setting the tone, the culture of your organization? Often our meetings have grown a bit stale; they often need a bit of a re-think and re-design. (And we’re too often Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
Lead with Heart

Icebreakers We Love and Why We Love Them

Not all icebreakers add value to a meeting. Here are some we love and why we love them. We frequently include icebreakers in our meetings, starting with the basic goals: Get people participating Help the humans see each other as humans (vs the various issues or positions they might represent) Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
Practice Makes Culture

20 Questions for Amazing Authors About Their Book Writing Journeys

The Elevate team is lucky to know some amazing humans who have written some of the books we most recommend to help leaders deliver practical, successful, sustainable transformation. What would you ask your favorite business book authors if you had the chance to interview them about the book writing process? Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
Practice Makes Culture

Continuing the Learning

One of the amazing transformation leaders I’ve been working with recently asked for more good ideas for continued learning: “Beyond the SAFe Community are there other national groups or forums you might recommend I get plugged into to keep up to speed on Agile and SAFe? Looking to stay better Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
Deliver with Confidence

Deliberate Empowerment

One of the most common questions I’ve been asked as both a transformation leader and transformation facilitator is “how do I effectively empower my leaders?”. There are some lovely tools for iterating towards higher levels of empowerment and some small but powerful practices (updates to your own behavior and language) Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
Practice Makes Culture

Why the ‘B’ in BRP

Sometimes when I’m working with a client to design and facilitate a Big Room Planning event [see Christine’s post on the various types of and agendas for BRPs], a client tries to segment the participant list. They want to invite certain people only to particular parts. The intent is kind: Read more…

By Ronica Roth, 2 years2 years ago

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