15-minute FOTO is our Clean Language-inspired coaching game, and version 7 of the facilitation deck is out of beta. On top of the usual minor improvements – fewer slides, better wording, that kind of thing – the big new thing is a new ‘Lite’ edition.
To understand why we’ve wanted to make changes, consider what each participant is doing when they play the game for the first time:
- Familiarising themselves with the Clean Language questions (from the cue card if it’s an in-room workshop, from the screen if it’s online)
- Taking turns in the role of client, coach, scribe, or observer, participating in or supporting what can be an intense 1-on-1 coaching conversation
- Worrying about the game’s objective, which to generate and capture outcomes
That’s a lot! Instead of doing this all at once, the Lite edition starts with a familiarisation exercise, turns the conversation into one for the table group as a whole, and the objective matters only after everyone has had a chance to get comfortable with it all.
If, as happens in many of our workshops, you plan to do 15-minute FOTO twice, you can start with the Lite edition and do the classic edition the second time round.
Spoiler alert
Another motivation for this new version is that it enables new strings of exercises for new workshops. I’ll be announcing the first of those very soon, perhaps as early as tomorrow.
Get the materials
Just ask here:
You’ll find a helpful Youtube video there also.
When you subscribe, you’ll be sent a link to the 15-minute FOTO Dropbox folder and you can download materials (cue card and the deck) from there. Add that folder to your own Dropbox and you’ll get all updates automatically.
Get a taste online
There are two opportunities coming soon to experience 15-minute FOTO online:
- One of my two sessions at the Clean Language community’s online OpenSpace event Metaphorum 2019 on November 22nd will be on 15-minute FOTO, focussing mainly on the Lite version
- Comprising two 2h sessions on December 11th and 12th, my next online workshop Learning the language of outcomes will feature both editions
By the December 11th if not November 22nd, there will be a version 8 that explicitly supports online use (the classic edition already does). Consider that announced 🙂
Questions
The best place for questions about 15-minute FOTO is the #cleanlanguage channel in the Agendashift Slack.
Upcoming workshops – Berlin, Oslo, Malmö, and online
New dates for USA and UK coming soon!
- 13-14 November, Berlin, Germany:
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 9-10 December, Oslo, Norway:
2-day Advanced Agendashift: Coaching & leading continuous transformation - 11-12 December, Online – two 2h sessions on consecutive days:
Learning the language of outcomes (two 2h online sessions) - 11-12 March, Malmö, Sweden – Julia Wester & myself:
Advanced Agendashift: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 8-9 June, Oslo, Norway:
2-day Advanced Agendashift: Coaching & leading continuous transformation
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