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.
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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Governance: not by the numbers
There’s a good article at the Knowledge@Wharton website: Corporate Governance by the Numbers: It Doesn’t Work . It reports research which suggests that the formulae offered as “best practice” for
9 September 2004
Art and criticism in meetings; discuss.
I had a good conversation with Stephen Wrentmore this morning, in which we kicked around the similarities between directing in the theatre (his gig) and facilitation (mine). Towards the end,
5 January 2011
Geek dinner
I went to tonight’s geek dinner here in London. I showed sufficient self-restraint on the beer that I’m able to post before going to bed. It was a good evening,
8 June 2005
Overreaction
England had a very disappointing game last night and along with many fans I did my share of yelling at the telly. In the bright light of morning, though, what
19 June 2010