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”
Throughout this period of lockdown, I’ve been so looking forward to the collective waves of gratitude that we’d experience, just as we’ve lived through the pandemic restrictions collectively. Small things we’d taken for granted would be cause for celebration.
While that has partly been true as various constraints have recently been eased where I live, a more dominant emotion in me and those close to me has been stress. Continue reading “Stressful Gratitude”
