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Adaptive Action: True and Useful
This month's free resource from HSD Institute
How can we make informed decisions that will move us forward? How can we know that the information we have will contribute to effective decision making and action taking?
In the first of a series of Change the World newsletters that focus on the HSD Simple Rules, we explore how helpful it is to "Seek the true and the useful." Download this month's free resource to learn more.
This resource is available for download through June 17
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Be a STAR: A Tool to Assess and Maintain Team Effectiveness
Author: Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Date: 2006
Medium:
e-Book (44 pages)
Cost: $29.95
In a generative relationship, people work together to create and realize new opportunities. The Generative Relationship STAR was developed by Brenda Zimmerman to help groups understand and manage their own dynamics. This package includes everything you need to evaluate the generative capacity of a group and to take adaptive action to help the group develop new skills, abilities, and actions.
This comprehensive assessment allows individuals and groups to consider what makes them a productive group and what aspects of their work hold them back. An easy-to-use graphic presents the findings in a way that speaks directly to options for action. Finally, a handbook for action provides a wide array of tools and techniques to help a group respond to its own challenges.
As a group develops, its needs and opportunities shift. Be a STAR is designed to be used repeatedly over a period of time, so a group can become adept at maintaining its own generative capacity as circumstances and challenges evolve.
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From Chaos to Coherence: A Tool to Manage Conflict
Author: Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Date: 2006
Medium:
e-Book (6 pages)
Cost: $9.95
What do you do when two people are locked in a cycle of blame and frustration? Traditional approaches blame the individuals by calling them “difficult people” and the relationship a “personality conflict.” HSD takes a different approach. We believe that conflict is based on differences in perception, expectation, and the stories people tell themselves to make meaning of a situation. We have used this practical and simple tool to surface differences in ways that allow combatants to identify and resolve the sources of their conflicts. In a complex system, difference is only bad when it blocks the healthy adaptation of individuals and groups. This conflict management tool reframes and pushes differences to open up new options for action.
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Legacy: Sustainability in a Complex System
Author: Royce Holladay, M.Ed., HSDP
Publisher: HSD Institute
Press
Date: 2005
Medium: e-book (68 pages)
Cost: $29.95
How do you keep a good thing going? Sustainability is a critical factor in the development and implementation of change efforts. All kinds of organizations—for profit and not, large and small—struggle in today’s fast-paced and changing landscape. When change is the order of the day, what does it mean to “sustain” an effort? This insightful e-book by Royce Holladay helps answer those questions. It moves you toward action that establishes a stable and adaptive foundation for the future.
Organizations are complex systems where the factors that influence sustainability and the systems that support them are massively entangled. No one factor can be teased out and pointed to as the “magic” one that assures long-term sustainability. In fact, sustainability is affected by a combination of interdependent and interrelated issues that must be addressed.
This easy-to-read text applies HSD principles to provide insights about what sustainability means and how to build it into a complex, self-organizing system.
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