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...
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
- 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
- Jun 12, 2018
- 2 min
'What may also be going on?'
'What is really going on?' - It is the question often used in the Adaptive Leadership practice as well as in the psychodynamics...
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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
- Nov 26, 2017
- 2 min
Love Art in Yourself
I happened to hear on a radio show this quote – ‘Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art’ by Konstantin Stanislavski who is a...
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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
- Apr 6, 2017
- 3 min
10 Years Old
Like what I said in the 5 years anniversary, I would not imagine that this blog would last for 10 years when I started it in 2007. I...
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David
- Mar 30, 2017
- 2 min
A facilitating French teacher
Further to my last 2 posts, this one is about the teacher. The French teacher is a great (learning) facilitator. She can easily get a...
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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
- Dec 18, 2016
- 2 min
Secondary Source of Income
A recent conversation with a fellow coach came to something rather interesting. Our argument is that in order to the job well, a...
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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
- 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
- Jul 29, 2016
- 2 min
Drawing out thoughts and emotions (Part 2)
[.. continued from last post] Third, it is the space. We held the session in her quiet little penthouse in a very old house. From...
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