Tools to plan, manage and review your collaborative work
Your usual approach to prepare for a meeting is simply to ask:
“What’s on the agenda”?
But you’ve been frustrated by some of the recent meetings you’ve attended or facilitated. It’s a big effort getting people together, and you’re not sure you’re making the most of people’s time.
You want to get well-prepared for an upcoming meeting but you’re not sure how.
Enter the Five Ps of Facilitation.
Are online meetings draining you of energy and motivation?
Meetings are a key part of how we make change and take action.
But the rules have changed.
You now have to navigate an offline and online world - even as priorities are shifting around you.
Packed with indispensable advice, simple principles and real-life stories, Virtually Productive is an essential resource for anyone looking to succeed in today’s virtual world of work.
If you want to understand the mindsets and methods of good engagement, this is the place to start. In this free 7-part email series, you’ll learn some surprising truths and experience some powerful stories. You’ll gain a new perspective and understanding, and clarity about what to do next.
You want to collaborate with young people to design new services or systems, and you’ve heard that you need to think about ‘ethics and safety’. This worksheet will help you to apply best-practice ethics to your project.
You want to host an interactive meeting on Zoom. But you are faced with a facilitator’s nightmare. You start the meeting only to find out that none of the interactive features are available. In this 4 minute screen-sharing video, Paul walks you through the back-end of Zoom and shows you what features you need to enable so that doesn’t happen to you.
How do I choose the right tech tool for the job? The COVID lockdown pulled us forward to a time of digital-first collaboration and engagement. But it’s easy to get lost in the thousands of tech tools that are available. This guide aims to help you choose the right tool faster, so you can get on with the collaboration at hand.
Are you ready to give up your power and influence? If you want to empower others, you need to be realistic about the desired level of influence you are willing to give up. The Ladder of Co-Production will help you to think about how you intend to work with others.
The Engagement Canvas is a ‘plan on a page’ that takes hours, not weeks, to complete. It covers all the key strategic considerations for an engagement project. And because it’s all on one structured page, it’s easy to get valuable feedback on your strategy.
This tool will help you to assess how much your organisation enables locally led solutions. It is designed for organisations working on complex challenges that are constantly changing and cannot be solved by a pre-existing solution. It’s based on two evidence-based models of behaviour change.
