Change Signal Are Your Meetings Killing Change? Keith McCandless
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Aug 13, 2025 Keith McCandless, co-author of The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures, discusses transformative approaches to meetings that often stifle change. He reveals five hidden patterns that exclude vital input from participants and introduces simple facilitation techniques, like Creative Destruction, that foster breakthrough conversations. McCandless emphasizes the need for greater autonomy and responsibility in teams, encouraging leaders to cultivate deeper confidence in their members. The chat is both insightful and refreshingly candid about shaking up the conventional meeting model.
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Simple Patterns Unlock Participation
- Liberating Structures are a set of simple, repeatable patterns that let people engage deeply without expert facilitation.
- They shift meetings from 'change done to people' to participatory processes that surface local solutions.
Follow The Simple Rules
- Follow the simple, mandatory steps of a Liberating Structure to get predictable results.
- You don't need charisma or formal facilitation training; just respect the minimal specifications.
Do Creative Destruction
- Use the Creative Destruction structure: imagine the worst result, identify practices that cause it, then stop one you can control.
- Make the final step behavioral and immediate to free space for innovation.
