At the 100% Open meeting I attended, we asked the audience to come up with things they hated about innovation events (amongst other questions). I thought their responses, shown above were interesting.
I often think it’s good to find out what people don’t like (there are downsides to appreciative enquiry if we take it too far). And I agree with a lot of the answers – a lot of events about innovation seem surprisingly conventional to me.
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
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
I’ve really enjoyed Keith de la Rue’s article: The art of conversation. He weaves together several studies and theories to suggest that the apparently simple process of good conversation has
Next month in Dublin I’m running a workshop with Kay Scorah. We’ve called it our Day of Noticing and it’s on April 3rd. Here’s the blurb (pdf) Among other things
I agree with Chris Corrigan: Somehow, the view of learning in the world has been confused with the kinds of quality control that is attached to manufacturing. We imagine that
“In today’s increasingly competitive business environment…” Do you sometimes find this piece of copy a bit wearisome? I know I do. So, I suspect, does Tom Coates judging by a
