Group dynamics are complex. Ravi mastered complexity in his first career as a nuclear physicist, and has discovered and created simple processes that allow each and every voice to be heard, and to enable groups from 12 to 3,000 to chart a collective course forward - or create personal plans of action, tapping into the learnings from the meeting and the wisdom of the participants.
Real conversations don't happen with 10 people at a table or 50 or 1000 people in a room. They happen around the water cooler or around a small table. World Cafe leverages this by having conversations at small tables of 4 with 3-4 rounds, each round with a different questions. Between rounds, many of the people move to different tables to cross-pollinate ideas. Ravi draws all of this together to move the group forward.
How often have you been at a meeting and wondered why you were there? Daily? Open Space is a meeting without an agenda where everything important gets addressed. The participants set the agenda by creating meetings about what's most important to THEM, and attend the meetings where they can contribute or learn. Then each meeting shares what they learned with the whole group, so everyone benefits from every meeting.
The Canadian Red Cross held an annual Disaster Management Conference to support organizations in communities that responded to disasters. Participants had repeatedly asked to have more time to tap into the wisdom within the participants, and to apply what they learned to their individual communities' unique needs.
The Red Cross realized the importance of this and cleared a full day of their conference. In the morning, Ravi facilitated a World Cafe to harvest the learnings and insights from BOTH the conference speakers and the experiences of the participants to identify key challenges and actions to move forward.
In the afternoon, he facilitated an Open Space Meeting/ Unconference that allowed EVERY individual to address the unique needs of their community and develop an action plan for moving forward with the support of others addressing a similar issue.
Highlights of the processes can be seen in the videos produced for the Red Cross below, showing how every participant had input and had their own unique needs addressed.
These videos were produced to capture all the key learnings and insights from the conference. Sharing them shortly after the conference reminded participants of the commitments they had made and revitalized their momentum moving forward.
Buy-in and commitment from strategy come from being able to create it. Ravi Tangri combines over three decades of facilitation and speaking, in-person and online, with leading edge technology to engage and involve participants with a full studio and key support resources.
This is far beyond a zoom meeting - Ravi's virtual events are just like being there. If you want to move your team forward and get them excited about innovative strategies to do that, contact us now.