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”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”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”I am someone who LOVES having something on the calendar to look forward to — usually a trip.
One of the trips I’ve been most looking forward to, for several years in fact, was a visit to Modern Elder Academy (MEA) to spend time with Chip Conley and learn more on the topic of “Wise Leadership.”
