Do you have something you’d like to launch but you aren’t sure if there’s an appetite for it or whether the details of your offerings are quite right?
Ask your audience.
It seems basic, but too often we behave as if we need to have all the answers when in fact, we have but one opinion and are often not representative of our own target market anyway. Continue reading “Co-Creation”
I’m learning that a well-led workshop is not primarily about using the software platform with the best meeting features.
Believe me, I’ve spent some time over the past four months learning the ins and outs of various applications, ranging from Zoom to MS Teams to WebEx to Mural to Miro to Lino to Stormboard…all in search of the best visual collaborative tool.
But once again, it comes back to people, not products or features. Continue reading “Minimum Viable Platform”
Become comfortable with discomfort.
It might sound good as a hashtag or on a T-shirt, but the above statement is utterly impossible. Discomfort is of course, by definition, not comfortable.
It’s one of the reasons we have default settings. They are comfortable. They save us time and mental energy. They eliminate conscious choice. To move away from them requires deliberate decision. As Dr. Jason Fox explains, our default is “selected automatically unless a viable alternative is specified.” Continue reading “A Default of Privilege”
On February 27, 2020, I was sitting in a workshop in Melbourne, Australia and wrote this in my notebook:
That’s what I was craving at the time. Some breathing room, both in real and symbolic terms.
Be careful what you wish for! Two weeks later, my calendar was virtually empty. Ten trips cancelled; more than twenty projects postponed. Continue reading “Spaciousness”
In a meeting last week, an Italian colleague commented to me that our Canadian Prime Minister sure knows how to use the power of silence, and that world class facilitators know the same thing.
In case you missed it, here’s the clip Gerardo was referring to. It clearly made the rounds worldwide:
Silence in a meeting can make us uncomfortable. Continue reading “The Sound of Silence”
