French and Leadership – The limitation of traditional classroom training
Some thoughts came to my mind when I was attending my French class earlier this week. (Yes, apparently, I was not an attentive student...
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ASK, NOT TELL
....and many other thoughts about facilitation, coaching ( teams & individuals) and learning
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David
Sep 15, 20152 min read
A question on question
New learning experience last month. First, I worked a coach (for teams and individuals) in a CEIBS executive education program in...
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David
Aug 24, 20151 min read
The Art of Enrolment (Cont'd)
Here is what I see as the third key reason why enrolment is difficult. It is the nature of some topic. For some topics, its name is...
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David
Aug 17, 20152 min read
The Art of Enrolment
‘Magic happens before and after’ – What a great quote I learnt from the others. And I wrote a post on this before. The same applies to...
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David
Jun 14, 20151 min read
Further thought on Co-designing with client
I wrote about the importance in designing with a representative from the sponsor, yet maintaining adequate direct contact with the...
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David
Apr 12, 20153 min read
Learning Sustainability
Coincidentally I entered into the discussion in separate occasions with others on how to sustain the impact of learning interventions. ...
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David
Feb 3, 20152 min read
Tavistock Experience – Learning Design
Further reflection on the Tavistock experience – As said, it is a very uncommon learning experience. To the extreme, for some parts, I...
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David
Jun 19, 20143 min read
‘Learning’ from Ancient Chinese
Triggered by a discussion with a friend, I would like to write a few posts about Chinese ancient wisdom, and more importantly what it...
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David
May 4, 20141 min read
Leadership Development
A friend of mine once attended a Leadership Development workshop all the way in the US. I supposed it was a huge investment by the...
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David
May 4, 20141 min read
Lucky Me
This post is a bit dated. But I still want to post it here since it is rather significant to me. The photos were taken in Gazipur,...
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David
Feb 7, 20141 min read
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
Jan 30, 20141 min read
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
Oct 30, 20132 min read
‘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, 20132 min read
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
Jun 22, 20131 min read
What (Meeting) Facilitators Do
Watch it. Just 4 mins. I particularly like the analogies!
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David
Jun 5, 20131 min read
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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David
Apr 7, 20131 min read
ARL on ARL
I was trying to explain what ARL is to another. Someone suggested a much better idea on how to do it. Let them experience first and...
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David
Feb 23, 20131 min read
Engagement, Performance or Compliance
I recently heard a great way to look at different ‘training programs’. They are either for the purpose of engagement, performance or...
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David
Jan 11, 20131 min read
Quote
I read it from the ‘Skilled Facilitator’ book. It says ‘All models are wrong but some are useful’. It gives useful perspective to the...
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David
Jan 4, 20131 min read
Walk and Talk
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...
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