by Laurie Durnell | Oct 16, 2019 | Team Performance
Why do teams so often fail to achieve the results they were created to accomplish? We sat down with Laurie Durnell, The Grove’s director of consulting, to get her thoughts regarding the team challenges she sees most in the field. The following is a distillation of...
by Gisela Wendling, Ph.D. | Jan 28, 2019 | Global Learning, Organization Change
Recently The Grove engaged in a yearlong project with the Metropolitan Council (Met Council or Council) in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, focused on building internal process leadership capability. The Metropolitan Council is a regional body that oversees all of...
by David Sibbet | Nov 10, 2011 | Visual Leadership
What Is Graphic Facilitation? To begin, let me share a story that illustrates how graphic facilitation works. Recently, a rapidly growing human resource development consulting firm operating in China and Japan asked my company, The Grove Consultants International, to...
by David Sibbet | Jul 21, 2011 | Visual Leadership
Becoming Aware of Metaphor Using metaphor consciously is another skill involved in mastering facilitation. Humans make sense out of things by comparing what they know with what they don’t know. If the comparison says one thing “is” another thing, it qualifies as a...
by David Sibbet | Jul 15, 2011 | Visual Leadership
I want to reflect a little on why I think that personal development is essential to “mastery” in facilitation, and how we approach teaching about “mastery” at The Grove. We define facilitation as “the art of leading group process toward agreed-on...
