decision making
Making strategic decisions in the context of COVID-19
The tools of scenario planning can help social sector leaders better prepare their organizations for the different, possible futures that may unfold. Scenario planning is an approach to thinking about the future that is rooted in the recognition that even in the best...
Collective Intelligence Collaboratory | CICO
Making sense of the huge array of organizations, software and concepts pushing to “change the world” is nearly impossible, as long as we remain unable to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. We are putting together a highly improbable mix of people...
Our Wise Democracy Pattern Language
This is exciting. Tom Atlee and the Co-Intelligence Institute team have developed a terrific collection of 96 patterns they describe as… “features or design principles that we believe would show up repeatedly in a democracy characterized by collective...
Nine common listening mistakes that sabotage your collaboration
Sarah Norton (Groupwork Centre) writes: Serious about leading or working collaboratively? Everyone you work with needs to know that their input is valid and valuable. Regardless of our situation in life, most of us want to feel heard. In fact, it requires conscious...
Thinking outside the circle | George Woods
In our hurly-burly times, it seems that the circle is no longer the shape to form in decision-making, or in organising social change. As an alternative, activism might instead adopt structures, tactics and decisions that accommodate the ideas, experiences, prejudices,...
Spokescouncils: Learning from Stop New Nukes
By the time I arrived at the camp the first spokescouncil meeting had already taken place… Everyone was welcome and affinity groups sat behind their spoke in the traditional ‘pizza slice’ formation with spokes effectively working in a fishbowl. However it was...
Collective book on collective process
A handbook on group process for egalitarian collectives. Its focus is on the often unrecognised negative dynamics that can occur when people try to work collectively. it is a collaborative work-in-progress, and everybody is invited to contribute.
Activists and difficult people
Brian Martin (2001): All of us encounter people whose behavior we find difficult, and many of us are difficult ourselves, at least at times! Some people might imagine that there are fewer problems in groups that are concerned with “good causes,” such as...
Meetniq | Activists, get organised
Meetniq is a group-organising tool for grassroots campaigns and community groups. It handles the boring and time-consuming bits of organising a group, so you can get on with the real work. Functions include compiling and distributing agendas, tracking group tasks and...
Loomio: collaborative decision making
Loomio is a fantastic (and free) online collaborative decision-making tool combining discussion and voting.