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
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
Developing with and through others
(Photo source: Flora Baker @ twitter.com) 2021 has been a busy year. With the quieter Jan, I am going to catch up with my reflection...
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David
- Mar 5, 2021
- 2 min
Role – How a dog can ‘develop’ human
I reflected on the concept of ROLE in the last post – Why me again fixing the Wifi? I come across recently an unusual example in...
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David
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
Role – Why me again fixing the Wifi?
One day I found myself attempting to fix the Wifi at home again. I was somehow annoyed with it. ‘Why me again?’…. And I have already...
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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 25, 2020
- 2 min
Just the Person
‘Just the person’ I am reading again the article ‘What is the difference and what makes the difference? A comparative study of...
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David
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
‘Games’…. in Cantonese
(The psychological game – NIGYSOB – ‘Now I’ve got you, you son of a bitch’) This is another post which probably only my Cantonese readers...
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David
- Dec 4, 2019
- 2 min
‘Zero collusion’ can be equally bad
My take on collusion (e.g. pleasing participants in developmental interventions) has been changing in the last few years. First, I was...
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David
- May 10, 2019
- 3 min
Demons in Gobi desert
[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] In the ‘Journey to the West’ story(西游记),...
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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
- Feb 24, 2019
- 3 min
Why does Economics assume rationality?
To a certain extent, I regret that I was major in Economics in university. Economics assumes that people are rational i.e. individuals...
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David
- Oct 16, 2018
- 1 min
Danny Chan 陳百強
I had a day of individual and team coaching sessions last month. I arrived early to settle myself in my coaching room. The first song...
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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 20, 2018
- 1 min
Safety vs Freedom
‘It is often safer to be in chains than to be free’ Franz Kafka I come across this quote on radio today. It explains so well how often...
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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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