Glossary (Indica Consulting)

Future Search: An interactive planning process used world-wide in diverse cultures to achieve shared goals and fast action. Future search leads to cooperative planning that lasts for years. www.futuresearch.net / Go back

Appreciative Inquiry: The traditional approach to change is to look for the problem, do a diagnosis, and find a solution. The primary focus is on what is wrong or broken; since we look for problems, we find them. By paying attention to problems, we emphasize and amplify them. …Appreciative Inquiry suggests that we look for what works in an organization. The tangible result of the inquiry process is a series of statements that describe where the organization wants to be, based on the high moments of where they have been. Because the statements are grounded in real experience and history, people know how to repeat their success.
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Open Space Technology: Open Space Technology is one way to enable all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, to create inspired meetings and events. Over the last 20+ years, it has also become clear that opening space, as an intentional leadership practice, can create inspired organizations, where ordinary people work together to create extraordinary results with regularity. www.openspaceworld.org / Go back

Search Conference: A participative process that enables a large group to collectively create a plan for the future of their community or organization—a plan they implement themselves. A search conference makes it possible for any system to thrive in turbulent, uncertain times.
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Participative Design: The basic building block for creating a self-managing organization. It is a method for moving from a bureaucratic model to one in which the responsibility for coordination and control of work moves away from supervisors to the people actually doing the work. www.fredemery.com.au / Go back

World Café: As a conversational process, the World Café is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims. www.theworldcafe.com / Go back

Thomas-Killman Conflict Mode Instrument: This instrument helps in understanding how different conflict-handling modes or styles affect personal and group dynamics and for learning how to select the most appropriate style for a given situation. Go back

FIRO-B: Identifies the key motivators that drive behavior and help transform a disparate group of individuals into a cohesive team with insights from the FIRO-B assessment. A powerful tool that helps individuals discover how their need for participation, influence, and closeness can be contributing to or detracting from their team's success. Go back

Team Management Systems: The TMS approach focuses on identifying and understanding key work elements that prove to be a reliable and valid focus in explaining why some individuals, teams, and organizations perform, work effectively and achieve their objectives, while others fail. www.teammanagementsystems.com





		E-mail Print Future Search: An interactive planning process used world-wide in diverse cultures to achieve shared goals and fast action. Future search leads to cooperative planning that lasts for years. www.futuresearch.net / Go back Appreciative Inquiry: The traditional approach to change is to look for the problem, do a diagnosis, and find a solution. The primary focus is on what is wrong or broken; since we look for problems, we find them. By paying attention to problems, we emphasize and amplify them. …Appreciative Inquiry suggests that we look for what works in an organization. The tangible result of the inquiry process is a series of statements that describe where the organization wants to be, based on the high moments of where they have been. Because the statements are grounded in real experience and history, people know how to repeat their success. www.appreciativeinquiry.case.edu / Go back Open Space Technology: Open Space Technology is one way to enable all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, to create inspired meetings and events. Over the last 20+ years, it has also become clear that opening space, as an intentional leadership practice, can create inspired organizations, where ordinary people work together to create extraordinary results with regularity. www.openspaceworld.org / Go back Search Conference: A participative process that enables a large group to collectively create a plan for the future of their community or organization—a plan they implement themselves. A search conference makes it possible for any system to thrive in turbulent, uncertain times. www.fredemery.com.au / Go back Participative Design: The basic building block for creating a self-managing organization. It is a method for moving from a bureaucratic model to one in which the responsibility for coordination and control of work moves away from supervisors to the people actually doing the work. www.fredemery.com.au / Go back World Café: As a conversational process, the World Café is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims. www.theworldcafe.com / Go back Thomas-Killman Conflict Mode Instrument: This instrument helps in understanding how different conflict-handling modes or styles affect personal and group dynamics and for learning how to select the most appropriate style for a given situation. Go back FIRO-B: Identifies the key motivators that drive behavior and help transform a disparate group of individuals into a cohesive team with insights from the FIRO-B assessment. A powerful tool that helps individuals discover how their need for participation, influence, and closeness can be contributing to or detracting from their team's success. Go back Team Management Systems: The TMS approach focuses on identifying and understanding key work elements that prove to be a reliable and valid focus in explaining why some individuals, teams, and organizations perform, work effectively and achieve their objectives, while others fail. www.teammanagementsystems.com