David Yau & Associates

It was a difficult case of intact team development. Aspiration Bridge Company (pseudonym) is a foreign-owned financial services company...

(Source: press.ikidane-nippon.com) An executive made a casual remark in a recent intact team development workshop, 'Smoking (together)...

[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] Numerous articles on the internet have...

Really…. why team? Complementary competencies…. A sense of belonging…. Cross-learning opportunities… there are many answers to this...

Experiential learning to an extreme – a leadership development program in the form of a team walking race for 96km in 2.5 days over the...

A reflection on a recent ‘learning miracle’. I conducted a day of group coaching with 5 executives in a business school program. ...

This post is again about the fundamentals of learning – the use of images.  I came across the above image on ‘Moneyball of Leadership”...

I recently ran a rather typical management development program. There were a few modules in a few days. Each modules was built around...

I came across recently a clip about an experiential learning activity around the topic ‘understanding the others’. It makes me...

Less than 12 hours before starting a 2-day Leadership Development workshop, the client told me that they need to take the first 1 hour...

[Regent Park in London, May 2017] I am an advocate on action learning, or more specifically the practice of ‘Action Reflection Learning’...

This is further to the last post - Learning about learning in a French language class. I cannot help note down a few more amazing...

I have recently started a 3-weeks French class with the University of Lausanne. I am amazed not only with my newly learnt French but...

I was shown in a facilitation learning event a short video clip. It is about a retreat for 50+ people in an organisation design and...

I was involved in running an outdoor experiential learning activity recently in an Executive Education event. Interesting insights –...

I gained some new perspectives on experiential learning recently. In the last few years, I had growing skepticism on this learning...

The 2nd question to reflect on is ‘What are ‘good’ odd moments and what are those ‘bad’ ones to avoid?’ By ‘bad’, I mean those odd...

Following from the argument from the last post, there are 2 questions 1. How to assist the participants to learn from the odd moments...

Scenario – Along with others, you designed and ran a 3-day workshop. For various reasons (e.g. flow design, learners’ composition), on...

This post is related to my recent exposure to Jungian psychology and in fact the last post on abstract painting. I set out the Swiss...