March 1, 2005

The Elephant Under the Table

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

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The Elephant Under the Table

I’ll be running an Open Evening on 22 March at 5pm along with my colleagues at The Clarity Partnership.

The theme is The Elephant Under the Table. We’ll be exploring how to get teams to bring to the surface the tricky issues that often get avoided. I often find that there’s a high price for this kind of secrecy, in terms of all the energy that gets bottled up when important thoughts and feelings are suppressed.

We’ll be sharing our experience of how to deal with this and enable groups to more creative and energised.

If you’d like to come, attendance is free. Drop me an email at johnnie (at) johnniemoore (dot) com.

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