I like Shawn Callahan’s examples of interventions:
turning off the blind copy functionality in an email system to send a message about trust providing managers with notebooks with the inside cover listing all the things a manager CAN do: what they can spend on whom what awards they can give etc. stocking the stationary cupboard for mobile employees a statement about trust
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.
Earl sticks his neck out an inch further than I did in response to Dan Pink’s argument about the failure of incentives. The biggest problem with business these days especially
Guy Kawasaki’s picks up on Duncan Watts’ very provocative research on network effects: Forget the A-list after all. (I wrote about Watts’ stuff here and here last year.) Watts is
Jeff Risley seems to like me more than Skype. I prefer things that way round. UPDATE: Rick Cecil enjoyed the seminar too. “There’s a couple more of his seminars coming
John Tropea has written a great post drawing together lots of threads about the role of conversations in what he calls organisational wellness and performance. We’re not machines, we’re mammals
