Impromptu Networking *

Focusing on People, Purpose & the Power of Loose Connections

TRIZ *
Designing a Perfectly Adverse System to Make Space for Innovation

What, So What, Now What? Debrief *
Reflecting on Your Progress and Making Adjustments-As-You-Go

Conversation Café *
Making Sense of and Forming Consensual Hunches about Challenges

Appreciative Interviews *
Creating Momentum by Building On and Designing With “What Works Now”

1-2-4 Rapid Cycle Conversation *
Conversing in Rapid-Cycles: Self-Reflection, Pairs, and Small Groups

9 Whys *
Becoming Clear About Purpose

15% Solutions *
Noticing the Influence, Discretion and Power Individuals Have Right Now

Ecocycle Planning *
Engaging Groups in Growing and Sifting Their Portfolio of Activities

Shift & Share *

Spreading Many Small Innovations from the Grass Roots Up & the Fringe In

25-To-10 Cloud Sourcing*

Sifting Through Experience for Powerful Themes & Great Ideas

Min Specs *
Unleashing Innovation by Specifying Only “Must-do’s” & “Must-not-do’s”

Wise Crowds *
Tapping the “Wisdom of Crowds”

Wicked Questions *
Framing a Paradoxical Challenge That Engages Everyone’s Imagination

Purpose-To-Practice *
Designing for Agility by Specifying Purpose-Principles-Participants-Practices

Improv Prototyping *
Tapping Tacit and Latent Knowledge in Seriously-Playful Rapid Cycles

Agree/Certainty Matrix

Matching Simple, Complicated, & Complex Approaches to Your Challenges

What I Need From You Surfacing Needs & Working Across Silos

Heard, Seen, Respected

Practicing Deeper Listening and Empathy in the Midst of Complex Challenges

Social Network Webbing

Drawing Out Informal Connections

Design StoryBoards *
Detailing Design Elements for Key Meetings and Innovation Efforts

Open Space
Liberating Inherent Creativity, Action and Leadership In Large Groups

Discovery&Action Dialogue
Discovering Solutions To Big Challenges In Plain Sight

Integrated~Autonomy

Amplifying Attributes that Make You Always and Never the Same

Generative Relationships
Understanding Patterns in Relationships that Create Surprising Sources of Value

Critical Uncertainties  Preparing and Practicing Strategy-Making for Surprising-Yet-Plausible Futures

Users Experience Fishbowl   Tapping the Wisdom of  People with Field Experience 

Graphic Recording

Illustrate Conversations and Big Events As They Happen

Panarchy

Spreading Your Innovation or Good Idea At Many Scales Simultaneously

Troika Consulting *

Guiding Your Next Steps with Colleagues

Celebrity Interview

Asking the Hard Questions in an Entertaining Interview

Helping Heuristics

Practicing Progressive Methods for Helping Others and Asking for Help

Simple Ethnography *

Making Field Observations of User Experience Leading To Novel Prototypes