Revive, Reimagine, and Reinvigorate Your Virtual Meetings
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Join us for 120 minutes of focus on how to get people immediately engaged and productive in a virtual meeting. Come learn and experience several Liberating Structures that jumpstart engagement and sharpen focus on a meeting's purpose. You'll take away at least one immediate application for your meetings. This session is designed for those new to LS as well as for those familiar and ready to explore deeper layers.
Liberating Structures are a repertoire of 33+ simple structured group activities that engage participants to dramatically change the way results are generated and advance the work of any group. These approaches promote engagement, inclusion, and collaboration to achieve your meeting purpose and organizational goals. LS can be applied for idea generation, solving challenges, collecting feedback, sense-making, planning, and more.
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Nancy White is a long time Liberating Structures practitioner and one of the early pioneers of online facilitation.
She has developed collaboration, facilitation, communications and planning strategies and solutions for a variety of non-profits, organizations, and businesses. Her clients include AARP, the Nature Conservancy, the World Health Organization, the University of Washington, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Presenter: Nancy White, Owner, Full Circle Associates
When: June 9, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Nancy will be available for an additional 30 minutes to answer specific questions.
Details: Zoom access information will be provided to registrants prior to event.
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Registration Open: NCCI 2022 Annual Conference – August 2-4
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Conference highlights include:
- A keynote on leadership, inclusion, and culture
- A panel of thought leaders on a growth mindset
- More than 30 sessions that cover skills and tools, lessons learned, trending topics, and case studies in the profession
- Preconference workshops to provide in-depth learning on design thinking, strategic planning, and building leadership capacity
- Exciting opportunities to expand your professional network
Read more and register.
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Playbook for Effective Hybrid Work
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OE worked with a pan-university advisory group to develop a playbook to guide effective local school and unit hybrid work plans. A resource for leaders, managers, and supervisors, it supplements institutional guidance from University HR and the Office of the Provost.
The playbook content covers: creating a plan defining success, identifying decision-making for the plan, maintaining delivery of the mission, developing guiding principles, and planning smartly now and into the future. The holistic approach to hybrid encourages users to commit to a learning mindset, understand the organization’s culture, and thus establish the team’s “fit” for a flexible work environment. The Hybrid Work Playbook offers guidance for sustaining plans through leadership, culture, collaboration, communication, engagement, physical space, and IT support.
Developing and operationalizing an effective plan is not a once and done activity; we have a remarkable opportunity to learn, continuously improve, innovate, and co-create with all members of our organizations. The work can be simultaneously exciting and daunting, but the benefits of planning and implementing a hybrid work plan with a growth mindset far outweigh the risks.
- To join the discussion on the Teams site, please use the ‘Join or Create Team’ button, search for the Operationalizing Hybrid Work Plans Team, and request to join.
- If you have questions, or to request support developing and operationalizing your plan, contact orgex@virginia.edu.
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VCAC Team Discovers Their “Working Genius”
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The session helped the team better understand themselves and identify ways to bring energy and joy to advancing their mission of “increasing the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented high school students who enter and complete higher education.” The model enhances an individual's understanding of what type of work aligns with their own Genius and provides insights about the implications of the team's collective Working Genius for collaborative work.
Developed by Patrick Lencioni, the model identifies six Working Geniuses: Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement, and Tenacity. It takes each Working Genius to accomplish collaborative work, and each Working Genius correlates to different phases of work, from ideation to implementation. By understanding these genius areas, teams can significantly increase the likelihood of success by ensuring all six of the geniuses required to get something done are addressed.
According to Lencioni, “Far too many people in the world suffer needlessly because they don’t understand their personal areas of working genius. As a result, they don’t do the kind of work that gives them joy and energy, and they end up in jobs and projects that are draining and demoralizing.”
Hai Yan Dendy, Assistant Director of VCAC, noted, “Using the Working Genius model helped us understand not only the strengths, but also the energy areas of each team member, which further informs the roles we each play on a project together. It really underscores the importance of teamwork and ways we can provide support to each other's work in moving the mission and vision of VCAC forward.”
To learn more about the Working Genius model, or to explore a session for your team, contact orgex@virginia.edu.
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Community Partnership: Supporting the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce
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Building upon our initial collaboration on Project Rebound, helping co-create a regional economic recovery plan in the wake of COVID, OE continues to partner with Chamber leadership. Most recently, OE assisted with the design and delivery of the Board of Directors Retreat, where they focused on strategic direction and key decisions to enable progress. UVA representatives serve on the Board and the University is a Partner in Trust, helping to amplify the Chamber’s work and advance a unified voice for business.
De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats was used to facilitate critical dialogue and elicit diverse points of view among the Board. Learn more in the next section.
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De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats: Helping Groups Think Together More Effectively
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De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats enable a group to think thoroughly, constructively, and objectively together. The symbolic “thinking hats” represent different perspectives and help groups see all sides of an issue or decision.
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RESOURCES
“If you never change your mind, why have one?.” – Edward De Bono
The Most Undervalued Skill? Lateral Thinking. Our society mostly emphasizes developing logical, procedural thinking skills, but this isn't the only way to come up with great ideas. Forgetting to develop our lateral thinking skills may mean missing out on unexpected innovations.
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