I’m making some more little videos reflecting on the business of working with people. This first one was prompted by looking at the sales pitches of training companies at a conference/exhibition. I describe the event as exciting, but in a boring kind of way.
It got me thinking about the urge to impress, and how it can affect the way we talk and create together.
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
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.
Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.) Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work Let’s Play
Nice provocative thought from Earl Mardle: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” Corollary, you end up with a business that only produces measurements. There’s no point being
What’s A Download Worth? Part 1 – The MASSIVE Downloader… — Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 — the soundtrack to the day you wish you'd had A good argument against the
Viv pointed me to this lucid post at the Skeptics Dictionary: The Forer Effect. The Forer effect refers to the tendency of people to rate sets of statements as highly
