I’m planning a one-day workshop for facilitators on July 18th in London. As in the past the format will be loosely structured and highly experiential. Details here.
Power, love and “cheap tricks”
Magic, relationship and changing status
I’m planning a one-day workshop for facilitators on July 18th in London. As in the past the format will be loosely structured and highly experiential. Details here.
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.

This HBR post attempts to evaluate Obama’s record on change management based on a four step model. I’m instinctively wary of models and this one strikes me as typically trite

Hugh at gapingvoid has been on top form with his series on the Chanel No 5 movie/ad. Funniest of all are some of the comments defending the ad. As Hugh

Andrew Rixon is another fan of silence in facilitation. It is not surprising that many people feel uncomfortable with silence within groups especially if you are the “leader” or “facilitator”.

I’m still mining Keith Sawyer’s Group Genius for insights; the more I re-read it the more useful and powerful I think his research is. One nuggest he reports is the