Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators. Being able to meet the unexpected with calm is usually pretty helpful. I often say that our job is not really to make difficult things easy, but rather to bring a sense of ease to difficult things.
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A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Hugh’s latest includes this observation: A few weeks ago I was having lunch with somebody very high up the global Digital Advertising foodchain. He was telling me about how once
Jon Husband spotted this story in the Toronto Globe and Mail: Employers sidestep recruiters to tap social media. An entrepreneur seeking to fill 17 positions asked his employees to share
Excellent comment by Clay Shirky on how the freedom to tinker and play with technology should be protected. And and example of the butterfly effect.
Antonio Dias asks two great questions in the comments to his post on drowning (which I blogged the other day). The first is: How do we engage with people who
