Surfing around I found this elegant description of the Satir Change Model by Steve Smith. I’m fairly phobic about “change models” but I’ve worked with this one and sometimes found it helpful – and human. For instance, it acknowledges the role of chaos in change and the wisdom of not ending it prematurely… (Apols to whoever’s blog it was that linked me to this, I got lost somewhere)
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
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.
So I’m here at Reboot8 having too much fun to spend much time blogging. But here are a few soundbites from Doc Searls who is speaking at the moment. Not
Karl-Erik Sveiby has a new book out, Challenging the Innovation Paradigm, and here’s a four page pdf summary. It suggests that it’s only in recent generations that innovation has been
Jack Martin Leith has a thoughtful post about conversation with some juicy quotes. This one makes particular sense to me: Your organization’s culture is nothing more than what individuals say
Charles Scalfini gives a concise explanation of a way experts often make bad teachers. As their experience in a subject grows, they are able to form more and more useful abstractions.
