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Impactful Presentations and Meetings
Imagine if you could halve the time and stress required to prepare for and recover from your presentations and meetings. My new programme for teams of subject matter experts does just that.
What's wrong with firehosing people with information?
Influence is a game. You can either play the game, or get played. Which are you doing?
Facilitate yourself before anyone else
To lead facilitation requires you to be aware of your thoughts, feelings and intuition. It's much easier said than done! But this is what it means to facilitate yourself before anybody else.
What Can the Election Teach Us About Framing?
Think of a jigsaw puzzle. What do you do first? You turn the pieces over, find the four corners, and complete the outside. That's framing. And it's a key skill when leading by facilitation. But how and when should you frame?
When everything keeps changing...
Is everything really changing? Are all the worrisome news articles isolated events or do they reveal deeper cracks to the systems that sustain us? In this article, I point to the BANI framework as an explanation for what may be at play.
Meetings are multipliers
Meetings are multipliers. They take your current aspirations and practices and multiply them. But are yours a positive or a negative multiplier? In this post, I share some research on the impact of meetings that may surprise you.
Facilitation is Leadership
What does it mean to lead by facilitation? Leadership and facilitation are like two magnets, repelling each other when they're close together but attracting each other when they're far apart.
I'm writing a book!
As the world becomes increasingly complex and uncertain, you may find your well-thought-out plans keep being tossed out of the window. We need a more enabling and adaptive leadership style today than ever before. Facilitation offers leaders a practice for effecting change, built on the wisdom and power of groups. Today I'm excited (and mildly terrified) to announce I'm writing a book about all that and more!
Can you teach codesign without talking about power and privilege?
Can you teach people about codesign without talking about power and privilege? The short answer is 'no' - but why?
Is your team toxic, tolerable or thriving?
Team culture is critical to achieving your purpose, yet many teams are toxic, tapped out, or tolerable at best. In this article, I explain a model for identifying where your team culture is right now and where it could be.
Virtual Methods Toolkit
Virtual meetings throw up a raft of new challenges. Deeply connecting with people can be tough when you're behind a screen. And reading the room? Bah - forget it. This toolkit shares 11 methods to make your virtual introductions and discussions more valuable and vibrant.
The Codesign Continuum - What if the main barrier to good codesign is your organisation?
When people first discover the practice of codesign, they often get excited about its potential. But the reality can sometimes be disheartening because codesign requires us to share power - something many organisations are not used to doing. I've developed The Codesign Continuum to help you understand how your organisation can grow and develop its codesign practice.