Session #33 Sensemaking

1. Session #33 Sensemaking

2. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 • Identities • Retrospective • Enactment • Social • Ongoing • Extracted Cues • Plausability

3. Weick’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 1. Identities • Many identities - Filters cues

4. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 2. Retrospective • Looking back - Verbalizing to confirm

5. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 3. Enactment • Speaking creates an object (concept) - Object is to be examined

6. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 4. Social • Who socialized me - How that was done

7. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 5. Ongoing • Sensemaking never stops

8. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 6. Extracted Cues • What I single out - Governed by identity

9. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 7. Plausability • If it seems right – it is right • No alternatives evaluated - Search stops

10. Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 • Identities • Retrospective • Enactment • Social • Ongoing • Extracted Cues • Plausability

11. Frames (Weick’s Construct) • Locate Frames • Augment Frames • Combine Frames • Synthesize (build) New Frames

12. (Words) Decode Abstraction Encode Sender Concept Concept Sensemaker Feedback Decode Encode The Communications Process

13. Sensemaking

14. Have a nice day!