James and I are looking forward to doing a mini OpenSauceLive at Reboot next month. We’ll be flying into Copenhagen on Thursday 9th and leaving on the Sunday. Looking forward to meeting up with lots of folks including Jacob and Hans from CPH127.
If you’re going to Reboot and have a video camera, we’d love to persuade you to record our session for posterity…
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
Adrian Trenholm retells this story at 173drurylane. The Sainsbury’s CEO employs an executive coach. The coach tells the CEO that his every move is closely watched by colleagues and that
I’ve just finished Dan Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness. It’s chockful of psychological experiments wittily narrated with a general message that things are not quite what they seem. When we remember
Good for nothing | Made by Many Another great review of goodfornothing. Excellent guiding principles include: think through doing; work small, share fast; it's not about a big vision; and
Alex Kjerulf points out the the brain likes surprises. This is interesting in the context of happiness at work because many of the things companies do to make their employees
