Harold Jarche has written a good succinct post on the shift managers have to make from hierarchy to network. It makes lots of sense to me, and it’s a challenge I’m seeing lots of organisations wrestle with. Harold challenges the “learning delivery” model, which is something I often run up against. It’s quite a culture shift and it’s happening to organisations whether they like it or not.
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
Shane Parrish points to a recurrent problem managers face: they rely on “maps” of their organisations that can never really capture reality. We are so reliant on abstraction that we
Chris Corrigan has posted some interesting ideas about improving conferences partly prompted by my recent comments on this subject. I like his description of keynote facilitation: The keynote facilitator combines
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Big Shift: Challenge and Opportunity for Women The value of a feminine archetype in managing complexity (tags: dialogue)
Simon Terry pulls together several different strands of thinking about the limits of management. The focus on efficiency and elimination of waste cuts us off from the biggest potential, our capacity
