The Co-creative Meeting

Co-creative meetings foster invention and innovation, and therefore enable innovative developmental processes in an organizational and inter-organizational context, including strategy development, product development, human resource development, R&D, and trans-organizational projects. This book illustrates the difference between productive and innovative organizations and what that difference means for meetings taking place in such organizations, both from a conceptual and practical point of view. It provides managers, coaches, consultants and other professionals whose job it is to organize meetings with clear and action-oriented guidelines for the design of co-creative meetings, and also shows how to incorporate them through experiential learning.

Concise description how to reach both consensus and effectivity in meetings Clarifies the interrelatedness between meeting culture and innovation capacity Includes seven maxims on how to be effective in meetings Addresses the issue how to create commitment in organizations and networks State-of-the-art techniques how to structure co-creative meetings Short, well grounded in theory and nevertheless comprehensive and readable for managers

Autorentext
Christoph Mandl, PhD in mathematics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; senior lecture at Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna; partner in metalogikon; founding member of Society for Organizational Learning Austria; council member of the Global Association of Society for Organizational Learning Communities.Markus Hauser, M.A. Organizational and Healthy psychologist; psychotherapist (logotherapy and existential analysis); consultant for organization development and leadership development. Hanna Mandl, Coach at Mandl, Lüthi & Partner; partner in metalogikon, council member of The Society for Organizational Learning Austria; violin teacher.

Inhalt
Foreword.- 1 Introduction.- 2 What is a Co-creative Meeting?.- 3 Dysfunctional Meeting Culture.- 4 Interdependency of Meetings and Organizations.- 5 Maxims of the Co-creative Meeting.- 6 Phases and Roles.- 7 Designing for Co-creativity.- 8 Institutionalizing Co-creative Meetings.- 9 Structural Variations for Co-creative Meetings.- 10 Consensual Efficiency.- Index.