I’ve made a few changes to the pages on this site about what I do. This gives more emphasis to the idea of Faciliation for Surprise. Quoting myself…
What characterises good facilitation is that people get surprised
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 anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Stanley Moss emailed me this NY Times article: Incredible Shrinking Packages. Update: Andrew Smart picks up on this and I particularly agree with him on this point: And the guy
I like Euan‘s article Does Cloud Computing Mean Stormy Weather for Managers. I’ve written before that there’s been an important shift in technological power from inside corporations to outside. Euan
It’s quite interesting to see how newspapers and magazines tailor their coverage to different regions. Tabloid coverage of soccer results varies a lot by country here in the UK. I
As regular readers know I am a massive Monty Python fan. And having caught up with this (via Geoff Jones), now even more so! —–
