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
I spend a lot of time working remotely, pretty much on my own. In the last week I’ve been out and about a bit for various things and here are a few of the things I didn’t realise still happen when you work in your own. Lanyards. Everyone has one. On the Tube, in buildings,… Read More Out and about
Lost and Desperate 