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
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
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
This is way off the admittedly wide path I normally tread here. But for readers in the states who don’t know who George Galloway is look out. He’s testifying on
The Power of Ordinary Practices describes how apparently mundane interactions with managers have a major impact on people’s work. Management and leadership are so often described in heroic terms which
I liked this bit of thought-provocation from Annette: Change processes evoke anxiety – whether it’s at a personal or professional level – that’s one reason why the change industry is
