A Midwife for Team Effectiveness
It was a difficult case of intact team development. Aspiration Bridge Company (pseudonym) is a foreign-owned financial services company...
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ASK, NOT TELL
....and many other thoughts about facilitation, coaching ( teams & individuals) and learning
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David
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
Smoking can fix a lot of our (team) problems
(Source: press.ikidane-nippon.com) An executive made a casual remark in a recent intact team development workshop, 'Smoking (together)...
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David
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
Playing ‘Offence’ in Leadership Development
[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] Numerous articles on the internet have...
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David
- May 17, 2019
- 2 min
Why Team?
Really…. why team? Complementary competencies…. A sense of belonging…. Cross-learning opportunities… there are many answers to this...
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David
- May 1, 2019
- 1 min
Leadership Development in Gobi desert
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...
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David
- Oct 8, 2018
- 3 min
‘I know how to ….. but I don’t really want to’
A reflection on a recent ‘learning miracle’. I conducted a day of group coaching with 5 executives in a business school program. ...
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David
- Apr 14, 2018
- 1 min
The Good Old ‘Images’
This post is again about the fundamentals of learning – the use of images. I came across the above image on ‘Moneyball of Leadership”...
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David
- Dec 26, 2017
- 2 min
The ‘Clash’ between Coaching and Training
I recently ran a rather typical management development program. There were a few modules in a few days. Each modules was built around...
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David
- Dec 14, 2017
- 2 min
The Good Old ‘Training Activity’
I came across recently a clip about an experiential learning activity around the topic ‘understanding the others’. It makes me...
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David
- Nov 8, 2017
- 2 min
Dancing with the Surprise
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...
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David
- May 21, 2017
- 3 min
Dilemma between Learning and Performance in Action Learning
[Regent Park in London, May 2017] I am an advocate on action learning, or more specifically the practice of ‘Action Reflection Learning’...
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David
- Feb 19, 2017
- 2 min
More about learning…. from the french class
This is further to the last post - Learning about learning in a French language class. I cannot help note down a few more amazing...
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David
- Feb 9, 2017
- 3 min
Learning about ‘learning’ in a French class
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...
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David
- Nov 30, 2016
- 1 min
Facilitation Work as a Cover-Up
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...
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David
- Oct 26, 2016
- 1 min
Rethinking Experiential Learning – Part 2
I was involved in running an outdoor experiential learning activity recently in an Executive Education event. Interesting insights –...
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David
- Oct 19, 2016
- 2 min
Rethinking Experiential Learning (Part 1)
I gained some new perspectives on experiential learning recently. In the last few years, I had growing skepticism on this learning...
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David
- Sep 1, 2016
- 1 min
Intended Messiness (Part 3)
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...
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David
- Aug 25, 2016
- 2 min
Intended Messiness (Part 2)
Following from the argument from the last post, there are 2 questions 1. How to assist the participants to learn from the odd moments...
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David
- Aug 19, 2016
- 2 min
Intended Messiness (Part 1)
Scenario – Along with others, you designed and ran a 3-day workshop. For various reasons (e.g. flow design, learners’ composition), on...
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David
- Apr 14, 2016
- 3 min
Individuation, Abstract Art and Corporate Learning (Part 1)
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...
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