Lisa Haneberg shared this quote with me by email.
Oh the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
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
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning says this:One of the key tasks of management is to create an organization that stimulates the complexity of
Neil Denny explores how to see business through the lens of an artisan or craftsman. In his post on dealing with rejection he has some great perspectives weaving together ideas
For those reading this blog thru a newsreader… I’ve been revising the templates for feeds and this has led to posts being renewed unnecessarily. Apologies if that’s been a nuisance;
Related to what I just said about holding questions, I often feel anxious when people bang on about thought leadership. There’s no doubt there appears to be a huge market
