Intro to Liberating Structures - Making Meetings Suck Less
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Liberating Structures
DRS Immersion Workshop
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Drawing Together
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Circle: CompletenessTriangle: Goal Rectangle: Support or structure Spiral: Change or chaos Star Person: People or relationships
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Use the 5 symbols to !
draw the story of your !
personal Lean journey.
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Circle: CompletenessTriangle: Goal Rectangle: Support or structure Spiral: Change or chaos Star Person: People or relationships
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1. Invite them to interpret your drawing
2. Tell the actual story
3. Switch roles
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Find another person you do not know well
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AGENDA
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Developed by Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz
Liberating Structures
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Inspired by the science of complex adaptive systems
Liberating Structures
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Made available through Creative Commons License = free to use,
remix, change
Liberating Structures
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Liberating Structures
This is NOT a certification course. There are no colored belts to be earned!
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What Are LS?• Tiny shifts in our interaction patterns • Embarrassingly small • Results focused
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Principles of LS
• Minimum constraints are necessary • Rapid cycles and many iterations over long, slow
methods • Parallel processing adds agility and enhances
effectiveness • Not all ideas are equal • Distribute control while staying in charge • Loose connections are at the root of innovation • Invite unusual suspects!
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Always Present Microstructures
Invitation
Space
TimeParticipation
Groups
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Advanced LS Practice
Like DNA, Liberating Structures can be strung together to achieve a specific purpose
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Additional LS Resources
The Surprising Power of Liberating Structuresby Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz www.LiberatingStructures.com
Pre-Agile Design by Zac Cohn + Fisher Qua (www.wonful.co/book)
Wonful’s “Innovation at Work” newsletter (www.wonful.co/newsletter)
Liberating Structures User Group
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Minimum Specifications
The fewest rules necessary to achieve a purpose
Defining MUST DO, MUST NOT DO
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Minimum Specifications
What must you do to maintain healthy communication across your
organization/unit/team?
What must you avoid at all costs?
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1-2-4-All
Fundamental pattern common to most LS
Enables parallel processing and best ideasto emerge
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TRIZ
Designing a perfectly adverse system
Identify specific behaviors preventing you from moving forward productively
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TRIZ
What could you do to reliably guarantee that no one in your organization communicated
with anybody else and no one was ever on the same page as one another?
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Appreciative Interviews +
9 Why’s
Get at the root cause or fundamental justification for something
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Appreciative Interviews +
9 Why’s
Share a story of a time when you successfully implemented or navigated
a change that stuck and proved durable, or a time when that didn’t happen.
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25/10
Generate bold new ideas for moving forward
Quickly prioritize contributions
Brainstorm in a structured way
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25/10
Imagine you are 10x bolder, what would you recommend to Gov. Inslee…
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Purpose-to-Practice
Rigorously define the 5 elements of any initiative.
Clarify how you will move forward together.
Include more people in shaping projects.
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Purpose-to-Practice
PURPOSE
PRINCIPLES
PARTICIPANTSSTRUCTURE
PRACTICES
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Purpose-to-Practice
Purpose: The fundamental justificationfor the existence of some thing to the
outside world !
Why is this important to you, DRS and your clients?
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Purpose-to-Practice
Principles: The minimum rules you must obey in pursuit of your purpose.
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What MUST you do? What MUST you NOT do?
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Purpose-to-Practice
Participants: Who must be included? What unusual suspects should you invite?
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What types of people or specific individuals would be necessary
to execute this idea?
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Purpose-to-PracticeStructure: How will you organize yourself and
your resources to achieve your purpose? !
5 microstructures Frequency + Cadence of meetings Roles Visual management tools
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Purpose-to-Practice
Practices: What are you delivering to your end users? What is the deliverable?
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What are you actually building or designing?
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Critical Uncertainties
Develop adaptive strategies for plausible future realities
Define the uncertainties that are critical to your survival
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Mad Tea Party
Rapidly build momentum on a challenge
Make sense of strategy as it is implemented
Retrospectively integrate learning
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Mad Tea Party
My favorite part of today was…
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Mad Tea Party
Today I noticed everyone…
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Mad Tea Party
One practice or structure I planon using in the next week is…
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Mad Tea Party
What surprises me about LS is…
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Mad Tea Party
I like Mad Tea because…
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@ZacharyCohn @SFQua
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