Hi All,
I was inspired by Chris’ practice note about ProAction Café and decided I’d share an experience as well.
We recently hosted a forum on corporate social responsibility. We work primarily with government and community organisations, with some gradual interest in social justice from some corporates, so we focused the conversation on “The new CSR: Collective Social Responsibility – How business, government and community can collaborate for social responsibility”. There was a panel of four eminent “speakers” and a group of about 40 people.
We decided to do something different to the standard 10 minutes each speaker and Q&A, as we wanted to engage the collective intelligence of the room. So we ran a World Café and the harvest was a question from each table for the panel. At the end the panel reflected on the questions, having been engaged in the conversations throughout the World Café. The feedback from the audience and the speakers was consistently positive.
I tried it again at a breakfast session I hosted the other day. The topic was “Developing Our Future Leaders” and the audience was a group of about 40 HR professionals. Again we ran a World Café and then harvested one critical question from each table. We then worked through the questions with responses from our perspectives. Again the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
So from a sample size of just two this might be something worth considering.
Kindest
Stephen
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That's cool Stephen.
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