Archive for April, 2007

Looking for Facilitation Tips?

Posted by Andrew 25 April 2007

Then go and check out Thiagi’s tips, tricks and techniques for facilitators! (His Freebies and Goodies are great too.)
What tips and tricks would you like to see? Come back to find more, and more, and more…

 

Upcoming training – Facilitative Disaster & Crisis Intervention

Posted by Andrew 25 April 2007

Following along our theme of how the way we talk can change the way we work, here is an upcoming training workshop in late May that Viv McWaters is running in conjuction with the Global Facilitator Service Corps coming out from the United States.
How do you know if someone is acting normally after a crisis [...]

 

What’s the story? Narrative techniques for change

Posted by Andrew 15 April 2007

Next week on Wednesday I will be running a workshop at the Australian Institute for Training and Development annual conference in Melbourne. Following along our theme of How the way we talk can change the way we work this workshop will explore how story, and storytelling is a different form of speak, a form which to some organisations [...]

 

The 5 keys to facilitative speak

Posted by Andrew 8 April 2007

Would you like to have more effective meetings? How can you be a more effective communicator? One of my strongly held beliefs is that the skills of successful facilitators can make us all more successful. Successful in being more effective in our own communication and communicative styles, and also more successful in working towards effective and [...]

 

How the way we talk can change the way we work

Posted by Andrew 2 April 2007

Think about this for a moment. Language is all around us. Like a fish in water, we are immersed in it, through words, every day. Some even say that the language we use creates our reality. Yet, how mindful are you of language? How often do you find your language not helping you achieve the [...]