The Community Store is committed to inventing and adapting strategies and processes that help to address the predictable, recurring problems that get in the way of group productivity.

Obstacles that get in the way of a group's productivity are common:

Have you sat down at the beginning of a meeting, expecting to get a lot done, but the group gets stuck on the first idea that comes up?  All of the ideas that could (and should) surface somehow don’t.  The group does not accomplish what most of the people attending were hoping they would accomplish.

What do you do when one person dominates a group’s discussion?  You are forced to hear the same stories over and over again.  The group can’t get done what it wants to do because it seems to be continually adjusting to the dominating personality.  The negative impact of such a person is especially difficult when it’s the boss or the most senior member or anyone else who has high status.

Or what about when people with good ideas don’t speak up?  The group doesn’t do as well as it could have done, because not all of the voices in the room are heard.  People are shy or intimidated or believe that someone else is likely to say what they would say, so they fail to speak up and risk being embarrassed.

Maybe the group does bring up and consider a number of ideas, everyone contributes, and no one hogs the air time.  Even then, haven’t you experienced the frustration or people resisting making a hard decision?

Current Projects:

1. •    Grand Canyon National Park Service / Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
   

2. •    North Central Regional Transit District
   

3. •    BLM Permian Basin
   

4. •    Information about New Mexico First facilitation training
   

5. •    Uranium Task Force