Welcome back for Episode 9! We have John Talbot joining us to talk about working in groups. John has over 40 years of experience as an executive, consultant, practitioner and trainer in the public, non-profit and private sectors. He has worked in all regions of British Columbia, Yukon and has done extensive work nationally and internationally using a community development model. We talk about "the Four P's", "The Five I's", strategies for effectively working with groups, and touching on divergent and convergent thinking. Happy Father's Day!

RESOURCES:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development
- THE FOUR P's = (Purpose, Product, People, Process)
- THE FIVE I's = (Into, Interesting, Informed, Involved, Inspired)
- RAFF = (Relationships, Action, Food & Fun)
- "See No Stranger" - By Valerie Kaur (https://valariekaur.com/see-no-stranger/)


QUOTES:

- "Businesses and other human endeavours are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved." - Peter Senge

- "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt