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I recently used the cards with the CIO Board of a large international company about to embark on a new IT strategy that essentially involves cultural change in the organization, and in their relationship with the organization. This is the first time I have used them.
The board is a relatively new team.
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Ways to use Positive Psychology Concept Cards: Ten ideas to get you started
General
You can use these cards in a number of ways to stimulate discussion; create commonality and motivation; and to identify agreed action. Some general ideas are:
- Use the cards as they stand, the questions and the action points
- Use a rating scale ‘To what extent is this present in our team/organization/group at the moment on a scale of 1-10? What would we like to be? How can we move towards this?’etc.
- As a prioritizing tool. ‘Which five of these are most key to our future success/our development/our strategy?’
- As playing cards. Each person has some. Someone starts by laying down a card they think is important (to the topic under discussion) explaining why they think so, the person who thinks they can build on this with one of the cards in their hand lays it down with ‘yes and…’. This is a cooperative card game, with no winners or losers.
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Introducing the Positive Psychology Concept Cards
The concepts reflect key findings from positive psychology research of things that make a positive difference to organisational life. Each card lists the benefits of the concept, provides three questions to stimulate discussion, and is followed by three pointers for development. Each is introduced briefly below, arranged in four groups.
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What is positive psychology?
Coined as a phrase by Martin Seligman as President of the American Psychological Association in 1998, positive psychology is the psychology of exceptionally good living. It embraces areas of study such as happiness; human flourishing; exceptional wellbeing; energy and vitality, meaningfulness and achievement. The switch in focus from psychology’s traditional concern with when things go wrong for people (mental or physical ill-health, poor educational performance etc.) to when things go right for people has resulted in a burst of new streams of research and new knowledge about the psychology of high performance in people.
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Difficult times loom ahead. Few of us feel at our brightest and most optimistic in the dark, cold days of January, February and March. How can we help maintain good cheer, hope and optimism amongst our staff, suppliers and customers? Here are some suggestions, maybe even a list of New Year resolutions!
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Posted in Leadership, Organisational Development, Positive Psychology, Team Development |
A Self-Organising Meeting
The Open Space process allows people to contribute to conversations that interest and energise them. It ensures that all topics that need to be discussed, are discussed. It allows people to add value to the discussions in a way that works for them. It disrupts established patterns of organisational behaviour, allowing new voices, views, opinions and perspectives to be heard and developed.
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What’s It For?
The World Café process is designed to help people talk together, exchanging ideas and developing their thinking about an issue in a relaxed, informal, yet purposive way. In small ‘café groupings’ of no more than six people, groups discuss particular questions or topics with the aim of expanding their understanding of their own and others’ views and of the possibilities. World Café is useful in many contexts, and excels when the main object is to connect and explore around a particular topic. At its best it produces conversation that connects, has energy, is emergent, magic and values not knowing as well as knowledge.
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Simu-Real is a technique used to represent an organisation to itself by showing its members how the different parts of the organisation affect each other in their work. By showing how the behavior of the constituent pieces of the whole have unforeseen or unappreciated consequences elsewhere in the organisation it allows the participants to analyse and change their ways of working to be more helpful to each other. Here are answers to some commonly asked questions about Simu-Real.
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What is it?
Appreciative Inquiry is a psychologically based, revolutionary way of approaching organisational change and development. It is based on an understanding of the organization as a living human system. It calls on all the things that encourage change in people: energy, excitement, imagination, empathy and connection, trust, relationships, understanding, shared goals and concerns, and a strong desire to be connected with good things.
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