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.
I wanted to plug my friend Sue Glasser’s upcoming workshop, Coaching to Connect. It’s in London on November 18th. Sue has done pretty much a lifetime of work exploring how
In his book Dialogue and the art of thinking together William Isaacs tells of a charged meeting of Russians and Chechens. At the first toast of the evening the negotiatior/facilitator
Nancy Dixon has a fascinating post about working with researchers who were getting a new work environment designed to foster casual conversation and collaboration. Basically their new cubes were going
SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck I've managed to stay out of World of Warcraft for a year now. This is a pretty useful guide to the multiple game mechanics that
