I liked this article from Marketing Profs: The Worst Thing About Best Practices.
In brief:
They rarely work
It’s a follower’s strategy
Change comes from within
They don’t come with a manual
This is something I dwell on in my More Space chapter of which more to follow in due course.
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Mark at Anecdote has a telling story of how a collaboration space was successfully undermined. Here’s how his client explained it:Early on this place was used all the time. I
I have been following the US elections fairly closely. It’s interesting to see how partisan they are and how people can take the same data point and reach quite opposite
So I just posted about the pitfalls of treating complex change as if it is merely complicated. I see this happening on a smaller scale in areas like training and
Tim Kitchin at the Glasshouse blog picks up the branding debate. It’s a lucid summary of several strands of the debate. Here’s a snippet The proliferation of factual information and
