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№ 36 | Facilitator Card Decks, Drivers of Change, Foresight & Strategy, FutureCast, and Notes on Remote Working

Stephen P. Anderson

12 May 2023 — 2 min read

Facilitator card decks

Roundup alert! So I did a thing… I searched for the hashtag ‘CardDecks’ on LinkedIn, and discovered a bunch of posts by Rachel Davis, including this ”list of card decks” (which “has both decks you can purchase and ones you can download for free.”)

Drivers of change

Short piece on “Initiating Organization Change: Practical Tips for Activating Awareness.” I appreciate tip two, for giving language to 3 different drivers of change: Situational, Developmental, Volitional.

Foresight & strategy

Visual language FTW! In this article is a nice, concise “Graphical Representation of the Relation Between Foresight & Strategy.”

Speaking of foresight…

FutureCast!

Here’s an interesting find: A micro-site devoted to a specific forecasting method, designed to “help you and your team explore risks and opportunities in an election context by engaging various stakeholders in thought-provoking and inclusive discussion.”

It’s not a ready to play game; as with many facilitation activities, you have to provide specific content. But, it’s solid scaffolding, with plenty of supporting resources, within which you can set up this game / facilitation activity.

Okay. D’Oh! 🤦

More time spent on this site reveals similar treatments for “a selection of tools, games and workshop templates, ready to be used for your own foresight projects.” Methods include: Driver Mapping, Causal Layered Analysis, 2×2 Matrix: Scenario Building, Futures Wheel, Horizon Scanning: Implications, Horizon Scanning Validation, Horizon Scanning, Foresight Experiments Scoping, and… a game to Explore the Future of Data Governance. Where's the gold mine emoji?!

Notes on remote working

Fellow ‘Muralista’ Laïla von Alvensleben shares six insights from the recent Running Remote conference. Good, solid observations.

№ 97 | Workshops and Wizards Cards, Human Agency Scale, System Health Over Time, 10 Notable Data Visualizations, Your Brain as a Closet, Two Org Frameworks from John Cutler, ‘A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport’, and SideQuest Decks!

Your regular dose of playful things to think with, and think about! Workshops and Wizards cards (UPDATE) A few issues ago, I shared an early prototype of the Wizards & Workshops cards from James Smart, a small set of fantasy themed ‘kudos’ cards participants can give to each other during

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№ 95 | Conquest (a VUCA Game), PLOT4AI Card Deck, MANY Ways to Launch a Startup, Union-Co-ops Zine, Power Skills, Barrier Island, and A Computational Public Space

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№ 94 | Archipelago of Possibilities, Strategically Vague Questions, Pattern ABC Cards, Letter to a Young Systems Thinker, The Heroine’s Journey, and A Theme Park in Miro

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