
Papers & Tools
Group Jazz works from many years of experience designing and facilitating high engagement meetings and processes in person and across distances. We hope you’ll find some of these articles and tools helpful. All files are in pdf format.
Complexity, Leadership & Organizations
Coaching as a Complex System
Emergence in Action: Reflecting on Our Practice Through the Lens of Complexity
The Leadership "Sweet Spot"
Maximizing Facilitation Skills Using Principles of Complexity Science
Practicing OD in Complex Systems
The Systems Consciousness of Senior Executives
A "Both/And" Kind of Dialogue: An Interview with Lisa Kimball and Scott Kelso
Liberating Structures
Changing the Organization One Conversation at a Time
Group Jazz: Changing the Conversation
Liberating Structures: A New Pattern Language for Engagement
Liberating Structures Presentation and Notes
An Inside Job: Best Practices From Within
Designing with Liberating Structures
Looking Forward: An Interview with Seth Kahan and Lisa Kimball
Liberating Structures 2002
Liberating Structures MetaSystems Design Group (Lisa Kimball and Frank Burns) 1996
Working Virtually
Making it WORK: Supporting work groups
Building Virtual Communities: IBM Case Study
The Virtual Team: Strategies to Optimize Performance
How Online Social Networks Benefit Organizations
Managing Virtual Teams
Managing Distance Learning: New Challenges for Faculty
The Virtual Team: Strategies to Optimize Performance
Open Space in Cyberspace
Tools for Working Virtually
Choosing Media for Team Communication
Ten Key Elements for Team Leaders to Manage
Developing the Team’s Communications Strategy
Team Effectiveness Strategies
Team Leader Toolkit: Boundaryless Facilitation
Team Leader Toolkit: Email
Team Leader Toolkit: Interview Guide
Team Leader Toolkit: Video Conferencing
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