Liberating Structure in practice

1. © Tracy Kelly celebrating LS iconography!

2. LIBERATING STRUCTURE- REJUVENATE YOUR
MEETINGS
KEMMY RAJI AND YASMEEN BAIG

3. Facilitators
Yasmeen Baig
Kemmy Raji
YASMEEN is a
Certified Scrum
Master as well as
Coach and
Facilitator. She has
20+ years of
experience
working in IT.
Currently works
for LAWPRO
KEMMY is a Mum to
3 boys, a Coach,
Trainer, Has lived in 3
continents so far,
enjoys travels, love
creating space for
people to learn.

4. Liberating Structure Creators
Keith McCandless Henri Lipmanowicz

6. Liberating
Structures
33 Micro Structures
– ” Any one LS can change
a meeting. Together they
can liberate and transform
an entire organization.”

7. MICROSTRUCTURES & DESIGN
ELEMENTS

8. Format for the session
Introduce the Micro structure
Invitation- Question
Explain the sequence of the activity
Debrief
Give examples of how it can be use for scrum
meetings

9. 1,2,4,ALL

10. What I Need From You
(WINFY) Introduction
People working in
different functions and
disciplines can quickly
improve how they ask
each other for what
they need to be
successful.

11. What I Need From You” (WINFY)
What do you need from your group in
order to achieve the Meeting’s
outcome?

12. WINFY- Instruction
Step 1 - Form a cluster formulate your needs and surface top 2. Select your
spokesperson. What I need from you is _____.”(5 MINS)
Step 2 - Make your request- Each Spokesperson ask for what the need from other
groups to succeeds- No answers. (4MINS)
Step 3- Formulate answers- Spokesperson + group formulate answers- (Yes, No, I will
try, or whatever) (4MINS)
Step 4- Deliver Answer- Each spokesperson, back to the fishbowl, restates the
request, then share answers- (Yes, No, I will try, or whatever. No discussion! No
elaboration!) (4MINS)
Step 5- Debrief what happened

13. WINFY- Debrief (5MINS)
What is your
experience of WINFY
Where might you use
WINFY?

14. Ecocycle
Planning

15. Ecocycle Planning- Introduction
Ecocycle Planning is about exploring what it is that you’re
keeping in the air (but shouldn’t), and what it is that you
aren’t (but should).

16. Ecocycle Planning- Invitation
Explore the current and future state of
your meetings
qWhat are you spending time on that is less
productive
qWhat are the things/meeting that you should
stop doing?
qWhat are some of the things/meeting you
need to spend more time on?

17. ECOCYCLE PLANNING-Instruction
qIndividually, and in silence, generate a list of your
meetings (1min)- Write on sticky note.
qWork in pairs to share and plot the activities on the
Ecocycle Planning Sheet (3mins)
qFind another pair to form small groups. Share and finalize
the placement of activities(5MINS).

18. Ecocycle Planning Debrief
What stood out for you
in the exercise?
What are you taking
away with you?

19. Where do you have
discretion and freedom
to act? What can you do
without more resources
and authority?

20. 15% Solution
What is that one thing you will
change about your
team/organisation’s meeting?

21. 15% Solutions
Instruction
qAs Individual- generate ideas- (1min)
qIn groups- share ideas (one person at a
time)-(4mins)
qGroup members, provide consultation to
each other ( Ask clarifying questions and
offer advice)- (5mins)
qShare findings- (1 person per group)-
(5mins)

22. 15% Solution- Debrief
What are you
taking away
with you today
What do you
think of 15%
Solution

23. Want to learn more?- Resources
qJoin the slack channel-http://bit.ly/lsslackcommunity
qAttend the 2 day immersion workshop- Toronto & Montreal
qJoin the Toronto meetup group- http://bit.ly/2MIUvUE
qGet the app/cards- http://bit.ly/31i8tSU
qLifecycle Pte- https://agile-od.com/mental-models/liberating-structures
qPractice with your team

25. References
Ecocycle Planning diagram-
https://kaospilotradar.dk/2018/06/19/the-ecocycle/
Liberating Structures website-
http://www.liberatingstructures.com
The Liberators website- https://medium.com/the-liberators
Page 20 Photo- https://hmed.ca/lunch-and-learn/