Dave Snowden says this video on how to do a "Peer Assist" put him a curmudgeon role.
See how far into the cartoon you get before it has the same effect on you. I hit curmdugeon mode about 40% in. The combination of teletubbies soundtrack, monotonous voiceover and a severe case of best-pratice-itis was just too much.
The basic idea of peer assist seems very sane and human. But it's ruined for me when it's turned into a series of rigid-sounding principles that make it all sound very antiseptic and incredibly laborious.
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Comments (3)
Ditto! I kept thinking to myself, why not do one of these for Open Space or a World Cafe, instead of something so seemingly innocuous.
But yeah...teletubbies solving problems. The good side of this though is that for many non-facilitators, this isn't really a half bad introduction to tapping the wisdom of your mates.
February 22, 2007 23:39 Permalink for comment
Well...here's my dilemma.
Honesty vs. Reputation.
Let's go with honesty.
As a New Yorker, I got about 30 seconds into the thing before the invectives started to fly.
Here's my advice: Duck before you show that video to a New York company.
Of course, I'm only 5% kidding...this is not the way to talk to adults.
February 23, 2007 21:29 Permalink for comment
It lost me at "the challenge must be real and not made up"...
February 23, 2007 22:10 Permalink for comment