We have listed various books, publications and websites that we have found useful and that we continue to use in our work.
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Strategic Planning
- Preferred Futuring
- Future Search
- Open Space Technology
- Large Scale Group Interventions
- The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
- Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
- Scenario Planning: The Link Between Future and Strategy
- The Sixth Sense: Accelerating Organizational Learning with Scenarios
- Shell Global Scenarios to 2050
- Five go on a Strategy Awayday
Problem Solving
- The Art of Focused Conversation
- The Art of Focused Conversation for Schools
- Facilitated Business (Process) Engineering
- A Process for Deciding
- Getting Immediate, Quantifiable, Business Results with Electronic Meetings
- Joint Application Design (JAD): The Group Session Approach to System Design
- Joint Application Development (JAD)
- More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus
- Rules for Reaching Consensus: a modern approach to decision making
- Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
- MAP Facilitators Handbook
- Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination
- Navigating Complexity: The Essential Guide to Complexity Theory in Business and Management
- Creating Paths of Change: Managing Issues and Resolving Problems in Organizations
- The Workshop Book: From Individual Creativity to Group Action
- The Creativity Toolbox: a practical guide for facilitating creative problem solving sessions
- De Bono’s Mind Pack
- Six Thinking Hats
- Brain Boosters for Business Advantage: Ticklers, Grab Bags, Blue Skies and other Bionic Ideas
- The Medici Effect
- Visual Language
- The Mind Gym: Give Me Time
- Be Creative: Essential Steps to Revitalise Your Work and Life
- The Company Culture Cookbook
- Clues to Achieving Consensus
Programme/Project Planning
- Beyond Strategic Vision: Effective Corporate Action with Hoshin Planning
- Winning through Participation
- The Art of Focused Conversation
- The Workshop Book: From Individual Creativity to Group Action
- Corporate Strategy
- Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling
- Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement
- Working with Emotional Intelligence
- The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Culture
- The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
- Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
- Simpler Way
- On Dialogue
- Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture
- Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success in Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
- Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
- Expanding our Now
Building Resilience
- Mind Over Mood: Cognitive Treatment Therapy Manual for Clients
- Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment
- Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
- A Spark from Heaven?: The Place of Potential in Organizational and Individual Development
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Resilience
- HBR on Building Personal & Organisational Resilience
Managing Change & Transition
- Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change (People Skills for Professionals)
- Managing at the Speed of Change: How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail
- Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organisation
- Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business
- Leading Change
- On Death and Dying
- Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society
- Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
- The Choice
- The Next Choice
- Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- The Managing Change Pocketbook
Facilitation Skills & Building Facilitation Capacity/Capability
- The Skilled Facilitator - a Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers and Coaches
- Practical Facilitation: A Toolkit of Techniques
- The Complete Facilitator’s Handbook
- The Essence of Facilitation
- The Art of Facilitation: How to create group synergy
- The Zen of Groups: A Handbook for People Meeting with a Purpose
- Facilitation: Providing Opportunities for Learning
- The Facilitative Way: Leadership That Makes the Difference
- Facilitating with Ease!
- The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook
- The World of Moderation
- Meetings by Design: A Guide to Positive, Productive, Creative Meetings
- Participatory Workshops: A Sourcebook of 21 Sets of Ideas and Activities
- The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Methods, Competencies, Issues, Foundations, and Resources
- Game Storming
- 9 Disciplines of a Facilitator
- The Suprising Power of Liberating Structures
- Serious Work (legoplay)
- Thinkertoys
- Making Questions Work
- Ladybird Book of the Meeting
- Facilitator’s & Trainer’s Toolkit
- The Secrets of Facilitation
- Nimble – Responsive Facilitation
- Facilitating Authentic Participation
- Good Talk
- Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
Underpinning Philosophies & Inspiration
- Client Centred Consulting: A Practical Guide for Internal Advisors and Trainers
- The Courage to Lead: Transform Self, Transform Society
- The Mind Map Book: How to use radiant thinking to maximise the brains untapped potential
- The Tipping Point
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death… And Everything in Between, a Buddhist View of Life
- For the Sake of Peace: Seven Paths to Global Harmony - A Buddhist Perspective
- Choose Peace
- Planetary Citizenship: Your Values, Beliefs and Actions Can Shape a Sustainable World
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- The Tao of Coaching
- Tao Te Ching: The Book of the Way
- True Professionalism: The Courage to Care about Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career
- Synchronicity: the Inner Path of Leadership
- Organisational Culture & Leadership
- The Heart Aroused
- Funky Business
- Karaoke Capitalism: Managing for Mankind
- Creating a World that Works for all
- No Logo
- Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Globalization Debate
- Martin Luther King: In My Own Words
- Humble Inquiry
- Multiple Intelligences
- The Culture Map
- A Simpler Way
- Find Your Way
- Do – Purpose
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Sticky Wisdom
- Do – Design
- Do – Story
- Do – Listen
Visual/Graphic Facilitation
- Bikablo 1: A Visual Dictionary for Facilitators
- UZMO
- Visual Meetings
- Business Model Generation
- How to Draw Anything
- The Sketchnote Handbook
- Value Proposition Design
- Bikablo 2; A Visual Dictionary for Facilitators
- Visual Thinking
- Doodle Revolution
- Visual Doing
- Sharpie Art Workshop
- The Back of a Napkin
