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When participating
in groups, people often behave in ways that undermine their own productivity.
The following are strategies, processes and approaches THE COMMUNITY
STORE uses to overcome the ways that groups become their own worst enemies.
These are ways to help groups to generate, develop and select between
ideas.
The following case studies - stories
- illustrate some of the preferred methods to create community. Please
click on each case study and see what the situation was, how Carl became
involved, what Carl facilitated and what the results were:
Chattanooga, TN
Casper, WY
Coconino National Forest
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Nominal
Group Technique (NGT)
Provides
a way to generate ideas and to organize the ideas into a prioritized
list. It is extremely useful when the time for a meeting is limited
but it is important that all the ideas of a group are heard. |
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Storyboarding
Provides
a way to generate and arrange ideas. |
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Ideawriting
A
group method for developing ideas, is particularly helpful in expanding
upon - "fleshing out" - the general ideas that result
from group interactions. |
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Interpretive
Structural Modeling (ISM)
Provides
a way to establish the relative priority of a group of items. |
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Process
Mapping
A
way for a group to describe an existing process or to develop the
steps of a new process. |
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Single
Text Negotiations
Enables
parties - with differing views regarding what to do about a common
concern - to reach an agreement by focusing on the text rather than
the messenger. |
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Strategic
Visioning/Planning
Used
to help a group establish a future direction that is shared by all
its members. |
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