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
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
Lisa Haneberg is continuing her thoughts about stopping performance appraisals. If you have a system that is damaging and everyone hates why do you need a replacement? Why not just
Alastair Somerville is doing some interesting thinking about the assumptions we easily make when organising conferences. He’s pushing at the limits both of more conventional events and of unconferences. It’s
When a conference sparks a series of continuing conversations that’s a good sign. That’s what’s happened with the NGO Knowledge Sharing event I went to in Brussels a few days
