Quite a few people have been linking to Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. I thought this idea from Laura Usher had relevance beyond food:
Dont’ create arbitrary rules for eating if their only purpose is to make you feel more in control
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
In his book Dialogue and the art of thinking together William Isaacs tells of a charged meeting of Russians and Chechens. At the first toast of the evening the negotiatior/facilitator
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Sig has an interesting post about ownership and its meaning. Here’s a snippet: Does a small shareholder in a large corporation feel the ownership? Would you feel the ownership if
Now we’ve done the book Viv and I are turning our minds to other ways of spreading the word… that meetings don’t have to be awful. So we’re happy to
