In the last week or so I’ve been called inspiring and influential. Someone told me I’d cut right through to the heart of something which had been challenging them for years. Someone else called me a leader in thinking around some of our work on measurement. I was told I was too cheap, gave too… Read More Perceived Benefits
I enjoy cooking. The act of assembling ingredients into a whole dish is incredibly satisfying. I cooked a risotto this week which takes time. An hour – almost – of slicing, preparing stock, and stirring. And stirring. So much stirring. I could, if I wanted, add the stock in one go but it wouldn’t a)… Read More Making risotto
I saw a post on LinkedIn from Don Taylor last week that has – as he regularly does – prompted me to think. Don Taylor recently suggested that face-to-face facilitators must evolve into highly skilled specialists—able to build context, facilitate knowledge-sharing, and surface organisational know-how. That struck a chord with me. The use of the… Read More Do I Know What
I was transported back last week to my youth. It was reminiscence about slides in the park. In the 1970 in the UK (yes, he is that old – Ed) the slide we had was a beast. Some two storeys high, set in concrete, we would make it quicker with a bit of furniture polish… Read More Slide etiquette
I was searching something on my blog site last week and came across a post I wrote almost 15 years ago. This was when I was still working out what ‘good’ learning was like and how we could move beyond the smoke and mirrors of traditional command and control, sage on a stage learning. It… Read More Recognition
Lost and Desperate 