The focus of your core training should be on creating the space and capability for great thinking and relationships.
That’s Lisa Haneberg on how to ensure training is not a waste of time. I so agree.
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Reading my vanity feed this cartoon (originally blogged in 2004) still generates the odd mention. It’s funny how we instantly think of meetings as boring and pointless. I recently asked
I don’t often write about market research these days. There’s only so much mileage in berating a moribund industry. But I thought Greg Clemenson’s post on adaptive conversations was interesting.
If everyone in a group feels they are sharing in a challenge it can be quite a powerful experience. But there are potential downsides too. If the challenge isn’t really
Curt Rosengren has a nice post summarising some more research suggesting money and happiness don’t go hand-in-hand. Makes sense to me.
