Across 20 years of consulting I’ve learned a few things. People know what’s wrong with their organizations, but struggle to talk about what’s going on. Figuring out what to do next is harder still. I’ve learned that stillness is a discipline, and that when it’s time to act, the best actions are usually pretty simple.
Improve Something Today is where I share useful methods and human ideas I’ve noticed along the way. Recent topics include ↓
- Group facilitation: liberating structures, how to end meetings
- Organizational change: premortems, strategy and culture planning
- Consulting byproducts: undiscussables, shifting baseline syndrome
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I’ll send you 2 notes a month, each taking 3 minutes to read:
- 1st Tuesday: monthly notes with links and readings.
- 3rd Tuesday: writing on things I’ve been learning about, with practical methods you can use right away. Recent topics included using zines for facilitation and the history of ‘doing more with less’.
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