Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators. Being able to meet the unexpected with calm is usually pretty helpful. I often say that our job is not really to make difficult things easy, but rather to bring a sense of ease to difficult things.
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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 in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Further to my comment below and in pursuit of my dislike of brandspeak, here is my diagram of how people respond to the abstractions of brand experts. Especially designers of
Lloyd had a bit of a rant yesterday. He’d seen an ad for Stella Artois saying if you bought their special pack of their beer they’d plant a hedge for
BA stewardess Claire breaks the corporate ice and creates real engagment. Hats off to BA is their culture supports this sort of thing.
I’m pretty bored of a lot of marketing and a lot of the conversations about it. I enjoyed Alan Jourdier’s latest post, It Really Is About (Gulp) Leadership. It resonates
