The World Café is a fun and easy to use method of conversation that quickly gathers the collective intelligence in the room and supports thinking together as a whole. Participants were encouraged to discuss with each other what inspired, touched, stretched or surprised them during the day.
Professor Prasad Kaipa, Executive Director, Centre for Leadership, Innovation, and Change (CLIC), describes the World Café as a coffee shop where people choose to engage in what they got, where they are, etc.
There are four rounds in the World Café process. In the first round, the question is explored and a host is chosen for each table. In the second and third rounds, the host remains at the table and table members move to other tables to discuss the identified question. In the fourth round, members return to their original tables and record their insights. The table host then reports these findings to the group.
Starting off a World Café session on the first day, Paul Gleiberman, Senior Manager, Boeing Company, said “At Boeing, we consider World Café a best practice”.
These are some of the other comments overheard at World Café:
“Spirituality with deep conviction can truly be a breeding ground for innovation and creativity.”
“Being and feeling relevant with your surroundings or the situation you are in can actually help reduce stress.”
“Awareness of one’s own ignorance can truly help ignite the genius because the moment you say you know, you stop listening.”
“Heart has to be involved for the head to ignite the genius within. The head alone cannot do it.”
“Realising the divinity or true leader within you is important to be able to ignite the genius within one’s own organisation.”
“Leadership must involve connectivity with self as well as the community.”
“One of the things that was very important to all of us was making contributions. Contributing is very important to all of us. But we can contribute more when we connect better.”
“Concentrate, Connect and Contribute. If we can put these three things together, wonders and miracles could be achieved.”
“Manifestation of the genius within when questioned. I think the power of questioning was the real surprise. Questioning oneself and questioning others is the real key to the learning process.”
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