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Imagine belonging to a great and resourceful network……… what would it look and feel like?

• Makes me laugh
• Feels warm friendly challenging
• Um….. Like this, It is, we are !
• Honest open fun
• Challenging
• Look:- colourful plenty of contradictions
• Like a long and eventful pilgrimage
• A crazy web of friends
• Full of ideas. New and combination of old
• Pockets of learning that is then shared
• An open ended conversation without a sense of closure
• A place for check-ups and challenge
• Supportive. Proud to belong. Ever expanding
• Sharing ideas not protecting.
• Exciting vibrant
• Collegiate
• Looking for the potential in each other
• Support
• Inclusive
• Look. Organic. Amoebic
• Sounds like Stravinsky
• Smells like: Spring.
• Real, meaningful, like a brilliant dinner party
• Inclusive
• People bouncing off each other
• Safe, supportive, empowering

2. What benefits could you gain from belonging to a network?

• Confirmation of approach/ideas
• Comfort
• Know someone who knows someone on something…..
• Sense of purpose (imroving stuff along)
• Fruitful connections
• Excitement, interest, broadening, deepening
• Greater confidence
• Learning new tools
• Ability to create contacts more easily
• Feeling part of something exciting, new and fun
• A group mind bigger than the individual brain
• Client work passed on to veritable excellent others
• Challenge
• Stimulation adventure new possibilities!!
• New ideas perspectives
• Friends
• Pool of knowledge
• Broadening opportunities
• 1 page profile of each member
• Regular meeting access to others (Web link)
• Mutual support to develop the hidden talent/potential in us all
• Depth
• Motivation expand ideas new places to explore ideas

3. What do you have to offer to the other people in the network?

• Mentoring of top execs and entrepreneurs
• Helping others change, help realise our individual destiny
• Co-supervision/coaching other network members
• Relationship Management skills
• Own network
• View from large companies best practice
• Top tips on where to snowboard and surf!
• Enthusiasm …… ideas
• Openness and supports
• Lots…. Just ask
• Metaphors symbols stories language
• What it’s like on the receiving end!
• Challenge, support, ideas, connections, work!
• Exploration of theatre improvisation techniques in organisation. Danger Zone course?
• Advice and confidential brainstorming
• Jam sessions
• Fun, passion
• Irrationality challenge
• Support
• Love, support, psychic awareness accountancy management skills healing

4. Imagine the possibilities for 1-1, small group and large group activities, face to face and online…… what sort of future activities, meetings, events and contact would you like to happen in the network?

• Web link directory for contact for 1:1’s
• Sharing case studies
• Face to face is vital
• Problem solving on the net?
• Don’t force it, box it, go with the rolling wave
• 1/4 yearly meeting like this
• Yes!
• All of the above and whatever takes your fancy
• Edit/collate books/articles
• "Problem share" clinics for sharing issues getting ideas …… sort of Action Learning
• Face to face is vital
• Anything which opens the mind - learning
• Exchange of tools/techniques
• Dialogue to explore new ideas - leverage diversity
• Maybe need some themes to work around?
• Debates
• Collaborative design
• Co-coaching
• Structured events - sharing methodologies and ideologies and stances
• On net dialogue/ideas/problem solving
• Parties
• Workshops
• A dialogue on how to consult to the have-nots-(the social excluded)
• Support communicate collaborate
• Exchange of brief CVs; what excites/what doesn’t; etc

5. What are your less positive experiences of networks, the risks and the pitfalls and how might these be overcome?

• Time wasting. Lack of right kind of leadership
• Friendships formed create cliques to distract from purpose
• Lock-in to social network, dependency, closed minds
• It becomes a business getting service w/o good relationships
• Politics runs riot
• Fear of owning ‘mistakes’ (not looking good, expert, wise etc.)
• 9/10 of iceberg never revealed
• Purpose unclear
• Change agents who want to change other people
• Real issues hidden
• Not being able to make something/anything happen
• You become detached from "customers" - you live in consultancy world
• That it is forced into becoming "something" when it doesn’t need to be
• Culture controls too much process

• Be clear about shared outcomes and focus on these
• Diversity
• Take time developing relationships
• Focus on the purpose and develop transparency
• Peer -to-peer network
• Allow it to evolve
• Involvement of all interests
• Right structures to facilitate the purpose