David Yau & Associates

I read it from the ‘Skilled Facilitator’ book.  It says ‘All models are wrong but some are useful’. It gives useful perspective to the...

I tried out something new in a recent workshop. As we started the day 2, I asked the learners to pair up, gave them a few questions...

I believe in the ARL practice. Specifically, I believe that people can learn a lot by reflecting on experience. However, I often find...

I was reflecting with a few facilitators on how to handle a difficult situation in a workshop. One facilitator shared a quote –...

I am lucky. I met another very unique practitioner in 2012. And I have opportunity to work with him as well. We co-facilitated 3...

It is embarrassing to write about my experience back in August. Anyway, got to do some catch-up work. I attended the IAF Asia...

“…The earlier you find comfortable with each other, the better to your learning…” I learnt great things from my co-facilitator in...

It is not a new idea. It is more whether one really does it or not. The KNOWING-DOING gap. On day 3 morning of a 4-day workshop in...

The HK workshop was a great success! More importantly I learnt new things. My co-facilitator always asked ourselves to do first...

The travel is a bit crazy these days. In May and Jun, I have workshops in Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and...

This is further to my last post on ‘Learning Zone’. I ran another workshop in Dubai last week. I had a bigger Aha on the piece of...

I ran a new Leadership Development workshop in Singapore earlier this month. It was quite a challenge to me since the workshop is of very...

I have had a great experience in Seoul last week. My learners in this leadership development class were awesome. I was quite worried...

I came across an article from McKinsey Quarterly called ‘Getting more from your training programs‘.  I am interested to see that they...

What else? It is probably the shortest yet most powerful question in drawing the respondent to think and express more. It is a follow up...

What done well? What could be done differently? These are typical debriefing questions after activities in classes. Simple but useful...

What would happen if you do not nothing about it? There are so many things we want to do and we want to do it all at once with the best...

What assumption you made recently which needs to be reexamined? The english word ‘assumption’ is a wonderful word. Simply by itself, it...