Johah Lehrer reports research showing that while teachers like creative pupils in theory they don’t in practice.
In fact, when they were asked to rate their students on a variety of personality measures – the list included everything from “individualistic” to “risk-seeking” to “accepting of authority” – the traits mostly closely aligned with creative thinking were also closely associated with their “least favorite” students.
I think this is repeated in adult organisations.
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
Jennifer Rice points (by way of Heath Row) to the Guru Red Manifesto and in particular to The Customer is not your Friend The customer is not always right. The
Like many others I’ve been getting more and more bogus comments from Spammers promoting their sites. So, having delayed for a while, I’ve just installed Jay Allen’s Comment Spam blocker.
During yesterday’s Skype call with Rob Paterson he came up with a good metaphor about conversations. It reminded me of the schoolboy rhyme “Volts jolts, mills (milliamps)kills”. You can have
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking the people said, ‘How well he spoke,’ but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, ‘Let us
