How
we work
Workshops
Our workshops are highly participative and interactive.
It’s accelerated learning with materials available for download
in advance. Topics include communications, meetings and decisions, conflict
and negotiation, team working, new member induction. Where possible we
like to include members from more than one co-operative in training – this
is especially beneficial for new member induction.
Click here to contact Kate for an informal discussion about your needs
Coaching
We offer coaching for individuals and small groups to explore
issues around communications, assertiveness, confrontation and negotiation.
Coaching can also be used to support project planning, setting goals,
reality-check, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Coaching can
be face to face or via phone calls.
Click here to contact Kate for an
informal discussion about your needs.
Facilitation
We are often asked to facilitate meetings in co-operatives
where there has been a breakdown of communications of some kind, and
the co-operative needs someone who will be neutral but who also understands
the dynamics of co-operative working. We also facilitate members’ days,
retreats, team-building events and participative planning events.
Click
here to contact Kate for an informal discussion about your needs.
Co-operantics forum
The forum is intended as a place where co-operative members
can share ideas or ask for help on co-operative working issues. It will
be moderated by me. Initially we plan to use the forum as support for
new member induction, a place where new members can meet members of other
co-operatives, exchange views, share problems, ask questions and learn
from each other.
Click here to visit the Co-operantics Forum
Downloads
Throughout this website there are free downloads – tools,
tips and techniques for improving co-operative working. These will be
of special interest to anyone attending a workshop, since they will be
able to download and read them before the course starts.
Kate says:
“
During the 20-odd years I have been working with co-operatives, I have
collected masses of useful information, tools and techniques for
co-operative working, the sources of which are now lost in the
mists of time. Some
of the material has been adapted from ‘Organisational Issues
in Democratically Managed Businesses’, published by ICOM in
1992, which was itself a collection of training materials contributed
by ICOM
member training organisations. ICOM was the UK federation of worker
co-operatives which merged with Co-operatives UK in 2000. This small
collection of
tips, tools and techniques for co-operative working is just a start.
I intend to add more materials over time, and I hope that colleagues
and clients will contribute to the development of this site, so I
have a special request for anyone using these materials: ... Please
let me have your feedback."
If you find something less than useful, or have any changes
you would make to the content, please let me know. Also,
if you have other materials you
think should be available here, please email them to me,
I will be happy
to acknowledge the source.
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How we
work:
• Workshops
• Coaching
• Facilitation
• Forum
• Downloads
Who we are:
 Co-operantics is
run by Kate Whittle, who has been working with co‑operatives,
both in the UK and overseas, for 20 years.
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