Practice Resources
Learning from Practice
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Action Learning - a developmental approach to change - the ins and outs of this central approach and tool of a developmental practice.
Surfacing and deepening your question - working with questions lies at the heart of development - this quintessential exercise can be used in many processes and settings.
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Four Case Study Methods for Practitioner Learning - Four different approaches to using case studies for practitioner learning.
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Intervening developmentally
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The Developing Of Capacity, by Allan Kaplan, CDRA, 1999
originally published as a Development Dossier by the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service. Organisation biography development exercise - a powerful process to help an organisation to understand itself through exploring its story. The reading The Phases Of Organisation Development can be used to accompany the process.
Conflict Handling - A Map For Facilitators - a guide to help facilitators understand and work with conflict.
Counselling exercise - The aim of the exercise is to let participants experience an authentic helping relationship within a counselling framework and to learn from their experience.
A Brief Guide to Open Space - Open Space is a conferencing process that operates without a pre-determined agenda. It seeks to maximize participation and minimize input. Capable of incorporating between 15 and 1000 people it is a unique self-managing process that can be used to explore almost any theme.
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Listening at 3 levels - reading and exercise - we have already published this as a Nugget, an old favourite. Useful for teaching about listening more deeply for thoughts, feelings and intention. Can also be used to help small groups of 3 or 4 to work with issues at a deeper level.
Turning points exercise - coupled with the reading on the The Phases of Individual Human Development - this exercise helps people to explore and understand aspects of their own development and therefore of development itself.
Developing mandate groups - a different way of making decisions and encouraging authentic initiative in organisations.
Surfacing and deepening your question - working with questions lies at the heart of development - this quintessential exercise can be used in many processes and settings.
Creative Conversations Exercise - an engaging and enjoyable process exploring communication, creating consciousness about 'listening' and 'speaking' in situations of non-verbal communication.
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Thinking about development
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The NGO as a unique organisational type - a simulation game - an engaging game to help people grapple with some of the more difficult issues of practice and organisations.
The Phases Of Organisation Development - organisations, like people, develop organically through phases of development - an insightful description and analysis of three phases.
Strategies of development - a map of several different strategic choices used by development practitioners.
Barriers and Resistance to Change - what makes change so difficult and how can these difficulties be faced?
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A Framework for Leadership Roles and Qualities - Six roles that lie at the centre of facilitative leaderships as well as the qualities that must accompany these.
The Phases of Individual Human Development - a map of how individuals tend to develop over their lives - useful for helping a particular person (especially self) to identify the challenges of their age. Useful as a reading to accompany the Turning points exercise which helps individuals to better understand their own development and therefore development itself
The Organisation biography development exercise can be used to help an organisation understand its own development and phases.
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