I facilitated a Zoom exercise where participants silently alternated between looking at their screens and directly into their camera lenses, creating moments of genuine eye contact. The 30-45 second experiment revealed diverse reactions and rich learning. It exemplified my approach: small experiences can generate significant insights, with everyone learning something different.
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Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Piers Young reports on research that shows diversity is a key to effective group problem-solving. But he says, our tendency to mix with kindred spirits may be in the way.
It’s hard to know where to begin in talking about the state of the world economy but one theme that constantly returns for me is this: there is a lot
Grant McCracken weighs in on the hoohah over the Chevy Tahoe user-generated ad effort. He puts it better than I did. There is a fundamental shift in the rules of
Maybe You Should Read the Manual » Inception – I Guess A Lot of Us Are Wrong Interesting take on storytelling where the aim is to leave the outcome ambigous.
