Full Circle Associates

Yet another one from Martin Leith. I actually think I blogged this before, but as we see more and more hand wringing around Katrina and the need for fast, emergent responses, looking at large group intervention methods might be something to keep in mind. Interactive events based on large group interventions

"The term “large group intervention” was invented in the early 1990s by Billie T. Alban and Barbara Benedict Bunker, two US-based organisational consultants and academics.

A large group intervention is a large scale collaborative meeting or event taking place over one, two or three days. It enables members of diverse stakeholder groups to get together, often in large numbers (12 to 1000 or more participants) and with widely-differing needs and interests, to discuss issues of heartfelt concern, share ideas, pool their knowledge and develop plans for concerted action.

LGIs are particularly effective when complex or conflict-ridden issues must be resolved very quickly, and when people need to work together as equals to decide how they will bring something new into being or bring about a mutually-desired change.

Large group interventions are typically convened to determine a shared vision of the future, craft a new strategy, agree how to implement an existing strategy, solve a complex problem, rethink organisational structure or ways of working, quickly develop a new product, or reinvent the customer experience. They are also a fast and powerful way to create organisation-brand alignment."

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