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)...

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

'What is really going on?' -  It is the question often used in the Adaptive Leadership practice as well as in the psychodynamics...

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 happened to hear on a radio show this quote – ‘Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art’ by Konstantin Stanislavski who is a...

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’...

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...

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...

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...

A recent conversation with a fellow coach came to something rather interesting. Our argument is that in order to the job well, a...

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 –...

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...

[.. continued from last post] Third, it is the space. We held the session in her quiet little penthouse in a very old house. From...