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3 Sandra Janoff, Ph.D., and Marvin Weisbord have led hundreds of meetings and trained more than 4000 people worldwide to use their principles. They co- direct Future Search Network (FSN), an international non-profit that pioneered the "whole system in the room" for effective planning. FSN received the “Outstanding Global Work Award” from the OD Network. Marv and Sandra 3
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FUTURE SEARCH
TEN PRINCIPLES for Changing the World One Meeting at a Time
Sponsored by: Marv Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, Co-Directors, Future Search Network
Webinar AgendaIntroductionsTen PrinciplesQuestions &Answers
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Sandra Janoff, Ph.D., and Marvin Weisbord have led hundreds of meetings and trained more than 4000 people worldwide to use their principles. They co-direct Future Search Network (FSN), an international non-profit that pioneered the "whole system in the room" for effective planning. FSN received the “Outstanding Global Work Award” from the OD Network. Marv and Sandra
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Principle #1 - Get the Whole System in the Room
KEY: People with Authority, Resources, Expertise, Information, and Need in the same room. Make it hard to avoid responsibility.
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Principle #2 - Control What You Can, Let Go What You Can’t
Control: Purposes, Agenda, Air Time, Room, Who Attends, Group Size
Let Go: Participant Attitudes, Behavior, Motivation & Commitment
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Principle #3 - Explore The Whole Elephant Look at all aspects of a situation before acting on any part.
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Principle #4- Find Common
GroundTreat problems and conflicts as information, not action items, Resolution not
needed to find common ground.
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Principle #5 - Let People Be ResponsibleNo need to diagnose group norms
Or “pysch out” motives.
Free yourself from “hidden agendas,”
“Resistance,” and “Defensiveness”
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Principle #6 - Master the Art of SubgroupingA little-known structural method
to keep groups on task
Learn to tell functional
from stereotypical subgroups
Use functional subgroups to head
off unproductive conflict.
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Managing Yourself [Four Leadership Principles]
Make Friends With AnxietyGet Used to ProjectionsBe A Dependable AuthorityLearn to Say No (If You Want Yes To Mean Something)
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Principle #7 - Make Friends with Anxiety Work with “blocked excitement
Contain anxiety in yourself and in a group
Turn anxiety to creative energy
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Principle #8 - Get Used to Projections
Accept “projections,” loved and hated parts you see reflected in others. Awareness of how you project makes it easier to work with diverse people Learn how to avoid “taking it personally”
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Principle #9 - Be a Dependable Authority
Accept your authority without being authoritarian
Learn to accept authority projections on you
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Principle #10 - Learn to Say No If You Want Yes to Mean Something
Watch out for requests for “outcomes” and
“Deliverables under impossible conditions
Stick to your experience and your boundaries
Offer alternatives
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Resourceshttp://www.futuresearch.net
See web site for public workshops in 2012.
Weisbord, Marvin & Sandra Janoff. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There! Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter, San Francisco: Berrett-
Koehler, 2007. Janoff, Sandra & Marvin Weisbord. “Three Perspectives on Future Search:
Meeting Design, Theory of Facilitating, Global Change Strategy.” in Scandinavian Journal of Organizational Psychology, Volume 13, 2003.
Weisbord, Marvin & Sandra Janoff. Future Search: Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, Commitment, and Action. 3rd Edition. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2010.
Weisbord, Marvin & Sandra Janoff. “Faster, Shorter, Cheaper May be Simple; It’s Never Easy.” The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 41, No. 1, 70-82, 2005.
Weisbord, Marvin. Productive Workplaces: Dignity, Meaning and Community in the 21st Century. 3rd Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2012.
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