I like Shawn Callahan’s examples of interventions:
turning off the blind copy functionality in an email system to send a message about trust providing managers with notebooks with the inside cover listing all the things a manager CAN do: what they can spend on whom what awards they can give etc. stocking the stationary cupboard for mobile employees a statement about trust
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
Surfing around I found this elegant description of the Satir Change Model by Steve Smith. I’m fairly phobic about “change models” but I’ve worked with this one and sometimes found
On a long flight to Austin TX I read most of Mark Earls’ book Herd. I liked it a lot, and am impressed by the breadth of reading and enquiry
Mark McGuiness‘ comment here reminded me of another fascinating story in Made to Stick. A group of students are asked to think about a problem they’re dealing with and want
Rob Paterson has picked up on an article by Michael Goldhaber which argues that the ability to create attention is the way to create wealth in the information economy.
