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How to Be a Critical Friend (Without Making Your Colleague Want to Throw a Stapler at You)
Everyone wants a critical friend...until the critical friend starts being critical.
If you've worked in philanthropy, you've probably heard the phrase a hundred times. "Can you be a critical friend?"
The intention is wonderful. Help someone see what they can't yet see. Challenge assumptions. Strengthen the thinking. The problem isn't the intention. It's the delivery. When people feel judged, they stop exploring. When they feel safe, they become curious.
How-To: Design A Strategy Everyone Can See Themselves In
“We want everyone to see themselves in the strategy: our office and warehouse staff, our guests, partners, and volunteers”.
This was the ambition for a recent partnership between The Convive Collective and Blue Ridge Area Food Bank to transform ten pages of thoughtful strategic planning into a dynamic and accessible visual.
When a strategy is embedded in a ten-page paper, it is challenging to bring it to life. By visualizing it, we aren't just making a pretty picture; we’re creating a shared language that allows every delivery driver, donor, and pantry leader to see how they make a difference.
Elevate Your Theory of Change Workshop with Visual Facilitation and Learning Experience Design
Embarking on the journey of designing a theory of change for your team or organization but feeling a bit lost? Fear not, for we've discovered a winning formula that turns the process into pure magic: combining established theory of change processes with visual facilitation and learning experience design.