Incidentally if you want to explore non-verbal signalling I really recommend gibberish games from improv. Viv and I use them quite a lot in training (described here). I find that if you get people to practice setting up an activity in gibberish and then in normal language, they create a lot more engagement.
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.
The Science of Improv Part 1: How to Fail Magnificently | Impro•gramming This looks at how failure tends to lead us to over-react leading us to sweeping avoidance of things
Joyce Wycoff asks Do you ever think about moments that change your life? and continues with a few examples. Here’s her own: One Butterfly Moment happend during a weekend from
I’ve read and greatly enjoyed Daniel Goleman’s stuff on Emotional Intelligence. But I feel unhappy about his involvement with Hay Consulting where he endorses their impressively titled Emotional Competence Inventory Accreditation. Emotional intelligence cannot be reducted to ratings and scorecards. In doing so, we risk masking the subtle mysteries of human relationships for a bogus mechanistic precision.
Evelyn Rodriguez posts her frustration with Theory X Marketing: I’ll be fairly honest and say I come away from marketing meetings depressed about how the majority of marketers view people.
