Below, check out video of a heatlhcare group using one Liberating Structure called TRIZ. [Many thanks to the video maestro Mike Young @ CIMIT]
TRIZ Video
Spark More Innovation
FAQs include a typical agenda and details about how an immersion workshop is organized. NEW LS 2.0 includes a current list of 33 LS methods as of November 2010.
Briefly, LS Methods 2.0
| 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? 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 Cycles * Conversing in Cycles: Self-Reflection, Pairs, & Small Group Five Whys Becoming Clear About Purpose 15% Solutions Noticing the Influence & Discretion You Have 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 Crowd Sourcing Identifying Powerful Ideas and Igniting Action With Everyone
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| Min Specs Unleashing Innovation by Specifying Only “Must-do’s” & “Must-not-do’s”
Wise Crowds Tapping the “Wisdom of Crowds” for Complex Challenges
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 Cycles
Agreement-Certainty Matrix Matching Simple, Complicated, & Complex Approaches to Your Challenges
“What I Need From You”
Surfacing Needs and Working Across Silos
Heard, Seen, Respected Practicing Deeper Listening and Empathy
Social Network Webbing Drawing Out Informal Connections & Resilience
Design StoryBoards Detailing Design Elements for Meetings & Innovation Efforts
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| User Experience Fishbowl Focusing on Interaction Among People with Field Experience
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 Value
Critical Uncertainties Preparing & Practicing Strategy-Making for Surprising-Yet-Plausible Futures Stories To Patterns Collecting Individual Stories that Reveal Collective Patterns
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 Prototypes
Open Space Technology Liberating Inherent Action & Leadership In Large Groups
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Liberating Structures 2.0 Illustrated
The fabulous designer Lesley Jacobs is helping us develop LS icons. These images are being integrated into our workshops.
Strategies to Learn-And-Spread Liberating Structures
Over the last decade, we have introduced and spread Liberating Structures (LS) with a variety of “strategies.” I put quotations on strategies because our first experiments were often responses to specific constraints rather than a pre-defined game plan. We see ourselves as explorers, adjusting course as we go. Only after-the-fact of succeeding in more than one setting does our experience achieve provisional status as “strategy.”
Reading LS FAQs, the LS Menu, and the article, LS: Innovating by Including and Unleashing Everyone will help you understand what is outlined below. Very briefly, LS can help people make fast progress on their most complex challenges – problems and innovation opportunities – with simple methods that shift patterns of relationship. LS invite individual and organizational transformations.
A Liberating Structures book is in the works. The book is a field guide with "how to" details on using each of the 33 methods. Application stories from LS practitioners in business, healthcare, government, academia, the military, and NGOs are included. Our goal is to publish by the spring of 2012.
The big four strategies to put LS into play include:
1. Immersion in the Full LS Portfolio Within A Single Organization or Unit: Encourage Application to What People Care About Most (a three-day immersion workshop experience sparks the transformation among top-middle-and-frontline participants)
2. Form A Collaborative Network To Tackle a Complex Problem and Invite Everyone To Join In Finding Solutions: Weave In Appropriate LS Methods As the Work Unfolds (over months or years... this may be a research project or action learning network)
3. Select An Important Event To Redesign Using LS Methods: Participants Learn LS As They Experience the Event
4. Coaching Individual Leaders and Consultants: Guiding LS Design Thinking for Specific Activities They Will Facilitate
All of the strategies help people learn and spread creative solutions. We have found # 1, the immersion worskhop, to be a fast-and-deep approach to unleashing widely distributed innovation and organizational transformation.
Below are attributes that contribute to success:
Liberating Structures: Including and Unleashing Everyone
by Keith McCandless, Henri Lipmanowicz is licensed under a
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