Incidentally if you want to explore non-verbal signalling I really recommend gibberish games from improv. Viv and I use them quite a lot in training (described here). I find that if you get people to practice setting up an activity in gibberish and then in normal language, they create a lot more engagement.
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.
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
Rob May at BusinessBlogCasting has just posted an 8 minute podcast interview with me. He asks about my interesting tool. Which turns out to be improv.
Earl spotted this from David Isenberg. Another Reason Torture-tape-gate is Abhorent I’m astonished at what’s happened in the USA over the torture tapes – as Earl says this is another
I wonder how much attention the folks at Starbucks are giving to Paul Williams and John Moore? These guys are serving up so much free consultancy I’d have thought someone
James and I held a strategic overview and implentation meeting in the C-Suite this week. Nah we had a couple of pints of Guinness in the Slug and Lettuce actually.
