Tom Guarriello has a nice post on doing just enough facilitation.
Just enough = elegant = the sweet spot.
That’s what I’m looking for whenever I design anything: a meeting experience a document, a culture. Just enough excitement, just enough colorful language, just enough structure.
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
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Christopher Carfi says I’m a Maven alongside some other rather more illustrious examples. Thanks Christopher! [AFTERTHOUGHT]Now if Christopher could just sort me out with the Connector and Salesman, a la
John Hagel argues: In the 20th century we witnessed a deep split in our professional and personal identities. The quest for scalable efficiency in all of our institutions required us
A great post by Robert Scoble: My message in a bottle to Bill Gates. Can you imagine executives in 99% of companies going public in this way? The world is
We’ve almost finished getting our new book available on Lulu the print-on-demand service. This little video is just me drooling over the final proof. It’s made in the spirit of
