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
Sep 3, 20203 min read
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 12, 20202 min read
Playing ‘Offence’ in Leadership Development
[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] Numerous articles on the internet have...
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David
May 17, 20192 min read
Why Team?
Really…. why team? Complementary competencies…. A sense of belonging…. Cross-learning opportunities… there are many answers to this...
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David
May 1, 20191 min read
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
Oct 8, 20183 min read
‘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
Apr 14, 20181 min read
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, 20172 min read
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
Dec 14, 20172 min read
The Good Old ‘Training Activity’
I came across recently a clip about an experiential learning activity around the topic ‘understanding the others’. It makes me...
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David
Nov 8, 20172 min read
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, 20173 min read
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
Feb 19, 20172 min read
More about learning…. from the french class
This is further to the last post - Learning about learning in a French language class. I cannot help note down a few more amazing...
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David
Feb 9, 20173 min read
Learning about ‘learning’ in a French class
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...
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David
Nov 30, 20161 min read
Facilitation Work as a Cover-Up
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...
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David
Oct 26, 20161 min read
Rethinking Experiential Learning – Part 2
I was involved in running an outdoor experiential learning activity recently in an Executive Education event. Interesting insights –...
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David
Oct 19, 20162 min read
Rethinking Experiential Learning (Part 1)
I gained some new perspectives on experiential learning recently. In the last few years, I had growing skepticism on this learning...
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David
Sep 1, 20161 min read
Intended Messiness (Part 3)
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...
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David
Aug 25, 20162 min read
Intended Messiness (Part 2)
Following from the argument from the last post, there are 2 questions 1. How to assist the participants to learn from the odd moments...
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David
Aug 19, 20162 min read
Intended Messiness (Part 1)
Scenario – Along with others, you designed and ran a 3-day workshop. For various reasons (e.g. flow design, learners’ composition), on...
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David
Apr 14, 20163 min read
Individuation, Abstract Art and Corporate Learning (Part 1)
This post is related to my recent exposure to Jungian psychology and in fact the last post on abstract painting. I set out the Swiss...
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