Isn't it just a fad, like so many animated GIFs? Au contraire, here's why the Venn does not look set to do a 180 anytime soon if we are to believe Google Trends.
Author: Michael Ambjorn
Founder @AlignYourOrg | Past Past Chair @IABC + espresso user & occasional photographer/timelapser
See us in action
“How might you creatively engage a diverse, international group of around 120, both face-to-face and online, to reflect, learn and bond together in celebrating 20 years of collective achievement?” Here's how we did it with the European Training Foundation, an agency of the European Union: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVjcbO-KqUI The project was recognised by the International Association of Facilitators … Continue reading See us in action
Only half of communicators say all their work is aligned to corporate strategy and goals
Benchmarking survey reveals that high performing organizations, when compared to their peers, are: Twice as likely to keep language simple and jargon-free 80% more likely to have a process for creating great corporate stories. Twice as likely to make emotional connections to their audiences 60% more likely to think about communication from the audience perspective. … Continue reading Only half of communicators say all their work is aligned to corporate strategy and goals
#11ways @ #IABC14 – TUNE IN
Are you in? The #11ways benchmarking database linking comms to org performance has 73 orgs. http://t.co/fazIuhfrmG If yours isn't one of … — Stephen Welch (@StephenWelch11) May 22, 2014 Hwæt! Whether you’re in Toronto in person – or attending remotely via Twitter – we would love for you to pitch into what @StephenWelch11 and I … Continue reading #11ways @ #IABC14 – TUNE IN
Facilitation case study: Celebrating 20 years with the European Training Foundation in Turin – #ETF20
Nicely summarised case study of the work Martin and I did with the European Training Foundation just recently. Check out the full post below...
#ETF20 – Celebrating 20 years with the European Training Foundation
Martin Gilbraith and I are off to Torino this week to help one of the European Commission's agencies look back at the twenty years since their founding in 1994. The world has changed considerably since then so it is safe to say that we're looking forward to learning more about the journey the team has taken … Continue reading #ETF20 – Celebrating 20 years with the European Training Foundation
Celebrating the development of facilitation – world-wide and history long
Looking forward to contributing to the reflections and celebrations of IAF’s first twenty years. Here’s Martin Gilbraith’s useful overview of what’s coming up in that context.
Martin and I are incidentally en-route together on a gig for one of the European Commission’s agencies – which is also turning 20 this year. We’re helping them reflect and celebrate… Stay tuned for more on this.
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Michael Ambjorn is founder of // Align Your Org and a member of @IAFacilitators
As the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, join us in celebrating the power of facilitation by exploring, sharing and reflecting together on its history worldwide – past, present and future.
We are inviting facilitators everywhere – and everyone with an interest in facilitation, professional and otherwise – to join together in a six-month collaborative process to develop our collective story of facilitation, culminating during International Facilitation Week 20-26 October 2014. Our aim is to strike a balance between honouring the past, celebrating the present, and envisioning the future – and to learn and have some fun together in the process!
We invite you to share key events & milestones in the history of facilitation, from your perspective and in your experience, and links and resources on how facilitation has developed and where it might be heading – share and discuss online at Facebook,
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Could Smart Simplicity be the business model wave of the future?
As we’re warming up for the upcoming #responsiveorg event which will take place in London this May (come along if you’re not already signed up) I’m going to take a stab at collating some of the thoughts and approaches that might help us have a more productive time.
As you might expect, I’ll be coming at it from an alignment angle – yet, that is of course ultimately semantics. As a practical example, here’s a brief but interesting article that relates to what we call #ALIGN without directly using the word. Enjoy.
Follow the bouncing ball here:
1. The Fortune 500 was created in 1955; since then, you can argue that the business environment is six times more competitive + complex than it was.
2. As the complexity of a business has increased, most management philosophy still comes from 1911 (pre-WWI) and 1924 (the alternating “hard” and “soft” views of management). Different models have cropped up over time, including stuff like what Zappos is doing right now, but by and large, we see this situation playing out in many workplaces:
As they have responded to each new challenge, managers (as Taylor recommended) have introduced new structures, processes and systems. When this happens year after year, there is a damaging accretion of structural fixes — we estimate that the number of these has grown by a factor of thirty-five over the past 55 years. The consequence is what we call “complicatedness,”…
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#11ways to under-perform? Take the survey
Cross-post from today's Simply Communicate: At the IABC World Conference, Michael Ambjorn and Stephen Welch will run a session on the #11ways communicators can contribute to organisational under-performance. To add some spice to the presentation, they've knocked up a little survey. The 2014 IABC - International Association of Business Communicators - World Conference will take place in Toronto Canada … Continue reading #11ways to under-perform? Take the survey
Collaborative leadership in the boardroom?
Earlier this week I attended the 2014 Socia Collaborative Leadership briefing, which this year focused on Collaborative Leadership in the Boardroom. (Last year's saw the launch of Messrs Archer and Cameron's book Collaborative Leadership). Who better to share practical experience on boards than the Chair of super-sized global recruitment firm Harvey Nash plc: Julie Baddeley. In case you … Continue reading Collaborative leadership in the boardroom?
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