{"id":173,"date":"2009-09-09T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-09-09T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T09:44:00","slug":"planning-the-unplannable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/planning-the-unplannable\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning the unplannable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At LIANZA 2009 I’m going to be facilitating an un-workshop kind of thing on “Getting people onside: making allies to support your innovation<\/a>“. It’s an un-workshop thing because I’ve just been fumbling this stuff out on my own and, while I’ve got ideas, I bet other people have ideas too; and we’ve got 45 minutes because that’s how the programming worked out. Some of the things I’ve been thinking about are:<\/p>\n
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  1. the boring-but-necessary ground rule stuff: keep it positive (“This situation is a nuisance but let’s brainstorm ways to work with it” is all good); confidentiality (so we can talk about real life work situations despite New Zealand being a small country); and the twins: participate and respect (aka encourage others’ participation).<\/li>\n

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  2. maybe a brief warm-up kind of things: brief introductions in small groups (“Hi, I’m Aroha and one innovation I’ve helped launch is … OR one innovation I want to launch is ….”) and\/or brief discussion on how to combat the 50 reasons not to change<\/a>.\n

    [I am so going to have to take along a timer….]<\/li>\n

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  3. actual meat – topic ideas I’ve had are:\n
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    • working with organisational hierarchies; networking with other ‘change agents’; getting support from people who don’t at first seem interested\/keen; figuring out what other people need and giving support to other people’s innovations<\/li>\n
    • communication – communication styles, miscommunications<\/li>\n
    • miscellaneous tricks and ideas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      [I’ve been toying with the idea of starting with a quick poll on how long we should spend on each topic. It’d go like this: say there’s 20 people in the room, I’ll name a topic and the time we’ll spend on that topic = the number of people who raise their hand multiplied by slightly less than 2. Very scientific and all.]<\/li>\n

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    • perhaps most importantly: a piece of paper for people to write their email addresses on if interested in a mailing list or similar I plan to set up so we can keep talking about this stuff and supporting each other after conference.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I’m trying to balance the “Gotta make every one of those 45 minutes count” impulse and the “Come on<\/i>, mate, it’s an un<\/i>-workshop” impulse and probably losing the spirit of both, I dunno. But\/so hey: if you were attending a session like this (and particularly if you are<\/i> attending this session!) what topics would you want to be included? how (if at all) would you want it organised? is group-work too traditional for an un-workshop, or the Fishbowl too intimidating given that the first LIANZA-hosted mini-unconference won’t be held until after this un-workshop?<\/p>\n

      Oh, and what should I make sure I read (whether about ‘getting people onside’ or about unconference-stuff) before conference starts?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      At LIANZA 2009 I’m going to be facilitating an un-workshop kind of thing on “Getting people onside: making allies to support your innovation“. It’s an un-workshop thing because I’ve just been fumbling this stuff out on my own and, while I’ve got ideas, I bet other people have ideas too; and we’ve got 45 minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[26,158,131,157,152,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}