Liberating Structures used routinely make it possible to build the kind of organization that everybody wants. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices. Liberating Structures start with something so simple and essential as not to seem worth doing and end with something so powerful and profound that it hardly seems possible.Ī liberating repertoire of 33 methodsThis website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together.

More time and money are then spent trying to fix the unintended consequences. This means that huge amounts of time and money are spent working the wrong way. They frequently generate feelings of frustration and/or exclusion and fail to provide space for good ideas to emerge and germinate.

Unwittingly, the conventional structures used to organize how people routinely work together stifle inclusion and engagement.Ĭonventional structures are either too inhibiting (presentations, status reports and managed discussions) or too loose and disorganized (open discussions and brainstorms) to creatively engage people in shaping their own future. While there will always be some justification for blaming leaders (or professors and administrators in education), the more compelling and useful explanation is not that people involved are bad, stupid or incompetent, but rather that the practices they have all learned are neither adapted to today’s realities nor designed to achieve the ideals listed above.

Lofty aims to include and unleash everyone in shaping the future So why is it that so many organizations of all stripes are filled with disengaged workers, dysfunctional groups and wasted ideas? If YES, we have found this is the kind of organization and community that people want to be part of. AND, Liberating Structures help make it happen. When you feel included and engaged, do you do a better job? Do you think teams in which people work well together produce much better results? Have you noticed the best ideas often come from unexpected sources? Do you want to work at the top of your intelligence and give the same opportunity to others? Learn how simple rules can unleash a culture of innovation. Translations available in five languages. Color and B&W versions available on Amazon.

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