Think Alone Think Together

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1	Think Alone, Think Together: How to banish Groupthink and facilitate creative conversations								A Guide to Facilitating Creative Conversations
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3	Episode	Date	Chapter	Section	Ideas	Tool	Diagrams	Quotes	props	Video

4	Entice	1/5								https://www.facebook.com/theconversationfactory/videos/1790083804628774/
5				What is a Creative Conversation? Ebb and Flow, Engagement and Surprise
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7					Do you Need to create something New?
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9					The need for shaping conversations to be more creative: Business as usual isn't enough.
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11					Facilitation is guiding conversations down a "happy path" that works for all the people involved.
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13				How do Creative Conversations Get blocked, stuck or dead on arrival?
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15					First speaker syndrome: Whoever speaks first sets the tone.
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17					Wrong room syndrome: Solving the wrong problem, asking the wrong question.
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19					The plane can never land: We get locked into patterns and can't budge.			"they run out of gas, the plane can neve land" - They Might be Giants, A shoehorn with teeth
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21				Thinking along before Thinking together can help
22					think alone before thinking together (TABTT) works to resolve first speaker syndrome
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24					TABTT can help you make sure we all see the problem in a shared way
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26					TABTT can break up the patterns of a group dialouge and move towards closure.
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28				What type of Conversations? A Conversation Matrix
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30					Big/Small, Internal/External
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32					Strategy Day, Team Retro, One-on-one, Workshop with Stakeholders, Community Co-Creation, Conferences, Seminars
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34						TOOL: Creative Conversation Matrix
35	Entice
36		1/12		Digging into #fakemeetings
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38					Don't invite people into your challenge if you don't plan to be suprised
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40					Responsiveness to the creative conversation isn't binary: it's the IAP2 spectrum. Be clear and specific about your intentions in the invite
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42					The more power you give away, the more durable the outcome can be
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44	Enter		The Shape of Creative Conversations
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46		1/19		Why we meet: To Open, Explore and Close
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48					We come together, we talk. And....if we're lucky, we leave with something better than we came in with.		Open, Explore, Close
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50					We open with a question, explore it together, and close on a decision or action.
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52				Normal Conversation Modes
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54					Turn Taking, Threading, Repair
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56					Popcorn, Round-Robin
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58				Breaking the Patterns
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60					Think, Pair, Share
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62				Power and Permission: Who's Authorized?
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64					Are you allowed to lead? If yes, awesome. If no, you can still use everything in this book
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66					Manipulation vs asking permission
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68				Molding the Shape of Creative Conversations
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70					Managing energy: Pushing the open wider, Keeping the explore from closing early.
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72					Wider Open means more ideas on the table
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74					Exploring longer gives ideas time to evolve
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76					Dividing time up in a meaningful way
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78		1/26		Narrative Structures for Creative Conversations
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80					Dividing time up in a meaningful way, connecting to a visual agenda, giving logic to structure
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82					Open, Explore, Close
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84					The Heros Journey
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86					The Human Framework: Body, Mind, Spirit
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88					The Four Seasons Wheel
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90					The Double Diamond
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92					The 5Es of Experience Design
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94					Design Thinking Models
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96					Drexler/Sibbet Process Model
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98					The Conversation Design Pyramid
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100		2/2		Implicit vs Explicit Conversation Frameworks