I’d love to run a management course based entirely on lessons from Monty Python.
The subject of meetings could probably be covered simply with scenes from the Life of Brian. For example to cover the topic of action theatre (lectures on the importance of action that don’t really support action) I’d have to use this clip:
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.
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
John Porcaro blogsmore evidence of the dangers of running businesses by crude interpretations of numbers… how superficial metrics can cover a rich tapestry of human issues and guide businesses down
You may have noticed a long silence here. I was travelling in Australia and then came back to the UK and changed location. I’ve moved to Cambridge (the UK one)
The BPS Digest reports that Self-doubt turns bosses into bullies. If power corrupts it may not corrupt equally. They describe some small scale experiments from which researchers concluded: Power holders
