I’m off to Glasgow in a few minutes, to facilitate a team day for a group of facilitators there. Hmmm…. on the one hand, a room full of facilitators ought to be a cinch, oughtn’t it? Then again, there’s the risk of being scrutinised and found wanting by experts. Time will tell… but I’m looking forward to it.
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
Phil Dourado has a good post on the pitfalls of management-by-metrics including the absurdity of ambulances waiting outside hospitals with their patients. (Because A&E have a target, set by goverment,
Aaron Saenz reports research from MIT into collective intelligence. They studied the effectiveness of a series of groups of varying sizes and performing a number of different tasks. Then they
I’ve just added a set of quite detailed show notes to the recent podcast on the shadow side of organisations. I’ve been procrastinating about doing this and was surprised to
