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ASK, NOT TELL
....and many other thoughts about facilitation, coaching ( teams & individuals) and learning
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David
- May 3, 2014
- 2 min
Co-facilitation
As I am about to leave my current organisation, someone asks me ‘what have you gained the most from the job?’ I think it is my...
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David
- Apr 7, 2014
- 1 min
Voice
I lost 90% of my voice during a workshop in KL. Scary. My voice has been with me so long that I almost forget how precious it is,...
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David
- Mar 20, 2014
- 2 min
‘Leadership’ on a gravestone
You may have read about it before. I just come across it this week on a newspaper. It is an anonymous gravestone in Westminster...
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David
- Feb 21, 2014
- 1 min
Really…. what is leadership?
Well, I am writing things now more and more often outside the theme of this blog again….. Perhaps I should change the scope. My work...
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David
- Feb 13, 2014
- 1 min
‘Check-In’ in Phone Meetings
A useful post on the HBR Blog - Create Human Connection in a Virtual Teams. A reflection as I read through it.... on the idea of...
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David
- Feb 7, 2014
- 1 min
Be careful about L3 and L4
A great piece of learning I got in talking to a learning / training veteran – It goes like this: Business leader: ‘I am sending people to...
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David
- Feb 2, 2014
- 1 min
Useful Questions
See this one from blog - Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator. I particularly like this one - 'If we weren't already...
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David
- Jan 31, 2014
- 1 min
Why Leadership Development Programs Fail
This Mckinsey article is rather comprehensive. I particularly like the part ‘…….companies should strive to make every major business...
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David
- Jan 30, 2014
- 1 min
Action Learning in Action
I was excited about what I experienced in an internal meeting conducted in India. Basically there were a few leadership development...
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David
- Dec 14, 2013
- 1 min
Rethinking Facilitation
It was a recent talent development workshop co-facilitated by me. In short, in a few occasions I thought that we were about to hit the...
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David
- Dec 6, 2013
- 1 min
Adaptive Leadership
The more I thought and talked about it, the more I like and respect this concept. I have gained new insights in the Oct HK workshop: · ...
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David
- Oct 30, 2013
- 2 min
‘When a program has a life of its own..’
Just completed a workshop in the Trident Hotel in Mumbai… I only realised that this was one of the hotels where the 2008 terrorist...
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David
- Oct 11, 2013
- 2 min
Diversity in participants
[The view from my hotel room was surprisingly stunning!!] I attended the IAF Asia conference last month in Tokyo. Different from last...
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David
- Sep 25, 2013
- 2 min
Immunity to Change
It is beautiful! ... if you ask me how I feel about overall Immunity to Change (ITC) approach. I have recently attended a workshop on...
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David
- Sep 17, 2013
- 1 min
Draw out questions
I learnt recently from my co-facilitator a wonderful question in a workshop in Shanghai. A great way to draw thoughts / questions from...
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David
- Sep 6, 2013
- 1 min
Why ‘Group’ for ‘Individual’?
In recent years, I am more attracted to work with intact teams rather than ‘open programs’. (By ‘open programs’, I mean that the...
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David
- Aug 31, 2013
- 1 min
Inner Work
This piece of reflection is a combination of recent experience in Hong Kong and Chennai, as well as my reading on the book 'Standing on...
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David
- Jun 22, 2013
- 1 min
What (Meeting) Facilitators Do
Watch it. Just 4 mins. I particularly like the analogies!
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David
- Jun 5, 2013
- 1 min
Physical Conditioning
I love looking at the Alps over the Lake Geneva. I will focus my eyesight and read the outline of the mountain slowly. I feel very...
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