David Yau & Associates

I heard a veteran facilitator talking about Open Space earlier this month. Great wisdom. She said that there are 3 necessary conditions...

Triggered by a discussion with a friend, I would like to write a few posts about Chinese ancient wisdom, and more importantly what it...

This post is a bit dated. But I still want to post it here since it is rather significant to me. The photos were taken in Gazipur,...

As I am about to leave my current organisation, someone asks me ‘what have you gained the most from the job?’ I think it is my...

A useful post on the HBR Blog - Create Human Connection in a Virtual Teams. A reflection as I read through it.... on the idea of...

I was excited about what I experienced in an internal meeting conducted in India. Basically there were a few leadership development...

It was a recent talent development workshop co-facilitated by me. In short, in a few occasions I thought that we were about to hit the...

Just completed a workshop in the Trident Hotel in Mumbai… I only realised that this was one of the hotels where the 2008 terrorist...

[The view from my hotel room was surprisingly stunning!!] I attended the IAF Asia conference last month in Tokyo. Different from last...

It is beautiful! ... if you ask me how I feel about overall Immunity to Change (ITC) approach. I have recently attended a workshop on...

In recent years, I am more attracted to work with intact teams rather than ‘open programs’. (By ‘open programs’, I mean that the...

This piece of reflection is a combination of recent experience in Hong Kong and Chennai, as well as my reading on the book 'Standing on...

Watch it.  Just 4 mins.  I particularly like the analogies!

I love looking at the Alps over the Lake Geneva. I will focus my eyesight and read the outline of the mountain slowly. I feel very...

I had a great workshop in London. A really good one! First, the learners are great. They are mature yet with high intellectual...

I talked about my dilemma in making the learners to reflect. I earned a great insight from my co-facilitator last week. I just got...

Not exactly humble but just cannot help reflect on this here. I was in Botswana doing a Leadership Development program. It is the...

This is another interesting insight from my 2012 experience. Vulnerability First, let me talk about vulnerability. This could mean...

I am happy how the Singapore Dec workshop turned out. I had been worried about it quite a lot. It was a pilot program for a group of...

I tried out something new in a recent workshop. As we started the day 2, I asked the learners to pair up, gave them a few questions...