That Moment Before Starting: The Joys and Pitfalls of Team Check-ins
“For our check-in, I invite you to answer this question with a single sentence: ‘How do I feel about our objective?’” The first time I encountered the practice of the check-in was about twenty years ago, during seminars rooted in the US-UK tradition. At the time, it seemed unusual to me: in most seminars, participants […]
Gen Z vs. Gen X and Y: the Diversity Wheel as a tool to facilitate intergenerational dialogue
The Diversity Wheel is a very interesting tool for exploring the different identities that make us who we are. And particularly effective when used to activate conversations, for example between people participating in DE&I training. The tool was published in the book ‘Workforce America! Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource’ by Loden & Rosener […]
Ethnic differences: the case of a sensitive conversation
Conversation about ethnic differences is never easy within a group. On the other hand, after the #blacklivesmatter movement, having these kinds of conversations and acting on them has become a necessity and a starting point for creating organisational environments in which fairness and belonging can acquire concrete meaning, beyond declarations of intent and hashtags on […]
Generative Dialogue: the 4 fields of conversation
Better known for his “U Theory”, Otto Scharmer has also worked extensively on Dialogue, together with his MIT colleague Bill Isaacs. In his pre “U Theory” days, he developed a very useful matrix to map out the various conversational fields that we could find ourselves in. For him, there are 4 such fields: Field #1: […]
