So many business books and trends seem to have the following pattern.
1. Identify some newish area of scientific research
2. Oversimplify and dramatise it
3. Say how you can now make shedloads of money from it
Mark Earls actively patrols outbreaks of this pattern in relation to neuroscience. His latest post is well worth a read.
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
Wandering past the shops at the weekend I suddenly found myself thinking, it’s time to see Declan Elliott again, indeed a trip to Galway would surely be a lot of
Hugh’s post (see below) prompts me to suggest the following: Focus groups are rarely if ever a way to have a smart conversation with customers. Showpiece ads about how clever
Chris Corrigan has been thinking about evaluation, the theme for the upcoming Show Me The Change conference. He cites Margaret Wheatley on the subject of measuring. She asks a clot
Liam Mulhall of Blowfly Beer is in London next week. Liam used to work in tech and wondered if he could apply some of the magic of the Open Source
