It never occurred to me that QR codes could be useful in meetings. But then Stu Field got me thinking about it. He’s been experimenting with using them to make it easier for students to pursue links from his lectures. Could save a lot of time on laborious spelling out of web addresses.
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
My relative silence recently is partly due to having had no broadband access for more than a week. This is all courtesy of BT who seem each day to deny
John Seddon rips into the curse of performance targets and other managerialist methods in the public sector. I wonder how many politicians and managers have at least considered his perspective
When my videos include more distraction, engagement goes up… how come?
In Us and Them David Berreby tells the story of a band of WWII British commandos who have captured a senior German commander, General Heinrich Kreipe. The Brits are moving
