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
Harold Jarche pointed me to this: Human Brain Appears “Hard-Wired” for Hierarchy I must get round to writing a caveat about my and others’ casual use of this word “hardwired”
Laura Ries comments on the Mel Gibson story. Would I be the only person who has something to do with branding who felt uncomfortable with this line? He began the
Here are a couple of my favourite cartoons from The Superest website. It’s a continuing improv cartoon site where folks invent cartoon superheroes to outdo the last superhero. Hat tip:
Speak Schmeak: The truth about 7% – 38% – 55% Stumbled on this today useful background on the most overused "fact" in training. An Innovation Challenge: Learning From Failure «
