Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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Wisdom wrung from failure
Dave Snowden reflects on how we learn from mistakes prompted by Jonah Lehrer’s piece in Wired. It seems that how we process failure has a pretty significant impact on how
25 October 2011
The power of rehearsal
Reflections on the power of rehearsal, from a master performer
13 December 2020
Engagement and formulae
Before leaving London I was talking to some brand consultants about engagement. Their puzzle was: how do we get employees to engage with a brand. How would you approach this
4 November 2004
Robust uncertainty
Dave Snowden quotes Lofti Lotfi Zadeh* As complexity increases precise statements lose their meaning, and meaningful statements lose their precision Dave adds this observation: The difficulty with measurement systems, and
8 September 2008