It’s widely understood that people make decisions primarily based on emotion, then justify them retrospectively with logic and go on to explain the decision as if it had been made logically in the first place.
Continue reading “Small Reasons for Big Decisions”Draw on all your senses
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”My Go-To Tool
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”Adjust the Bullseye
Sometimes people ask me when I “have time to come up with so many new ideas?”
I wonder if they think I just sit at my desk and think. I don’t.
Thinking is work, yes, but most of my ideas come when I am “in delivery” — in front of a room of people, speaking or facilitating. I test them in real time and see which ones land.
Continue reading “Adjust the Bullseye”The Benefits of Doing
I have a slide that I use in multiple decks. It looks like this:
