This is a story of two menus and two restaurant patrons.
The first menu consisted of three lunch selections, presented orally to the diners: “Meat, fish or vegetarian?”
The second menu also consisted of three lunch selections: “One course, three courses or six courses?”
Continue reading “Safer Surprises”You know what it feels like to have been sitting in one position for too long — the muscles that have been bent strangely and stuck in one spot are basically useless for a bit until you get them moving again.
Can this metaphor also apply to our senses, or to other ways we process information? I suspect so.
Continue reading “Draw on all your senses”As I write this, I am starting day four of a conference called The_Dream, hosted in Sintra, Portugal by the House of Beautiful Business. So it is perhaps not surprising that I have beauty on my mind.
We always have an opportunity to inject some beauty. It may happen in small, temporary ways.
Continue reading “Inject Beauty”My friend and colleague Bonita Nuttall runs a program called “Turn up the YOU!” and I love the concept.
Its power hit me at two different scales this past week, and both were a good reminder that we always have the opportunity to inject some personality into what we’re doing.
Continue reading “Turn up the you”Continuing our short series on quick facilitation hacks I use all the time:
If you notice a group is getting a bit mired in binary thinking (i.e. “We have to choose this or that,” or “The world looks like this or that”), I find it helpful to draw a line on a whiteboard, with their two options at either end. Then I ask them:
Continue reading “My Go-To Tool”