July 2007 archives

July 21, 2007 by Patti

Serious Play

At Gennova last week, we continued our storytelling theme. Our guest was Robert Rasmussen, one of the main architects of Lego’s Serious Play. I’m hopeless with construction toys and score very low on spatial abilities (I failed Johnson O’Connor’s Wiggly Blocks test), but even I got it that there’s something very powerful once you get [...]

July 20, 2007 by Patti

Organizational Quotient (OQ)

I was alerted to a recent Fortune Magazine article, The Hidden Workplace, by an attendee of one of my recent workshops. The information is based on a study by Katzenbach Partners, The Informal Organization, which I have just requested. The article includes a great example of creating a network by tapping the “go to” people, [...]