David Yau & Associates

It was a difficult case of intact team development. Aspiration Bridge Company (pseudonym) is a foreign-owned financial services company...

[Photo source unidentified. Please advise if anyone knows. I will add the source accordingly] I learnt to use the ‘Immunity to Change’...

‘It is often safer to be in chains than to be free’ Franz Kafka I come across this quote on radio today. It explains so well how often...

'What is really going on?' -  It is the question often used in the Adaptive Leadership practice as well as in the psychodynamics...

I recently ran a rather typical management development program. There were a few modules in a few days. Each modules was built around...

[Regent Park in London, May 2017] I am an advocate on action learning, or more specifically the practice of ‘Action Reflection Learning’...

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...

I have further thought on this. Reflection is actually a few layers of ‘What does the experience mean to me?’ We asked ourselves...

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...

‘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...

I wrote about the importance in designing with a representative from the sponsor, yet maintaining adequate direct contact with the...

Coincidentally I entered into the discussion in separate occasions with others on how to sustain the impact of learning interventions. ...

'... Beyond selection, leadership development is a line manager's daily responsibility. Training and development processes like those...

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,...

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...

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: · ...

It is beautiful! ... if you ask me how I feel about overall Immunity to Change (ITC) approach. I have recently attended a workshop on...

I had a great workshop in London. A really good one! First, the learners are great. They are mature yet with high intellectual...

This is another interesting insight from my 2012 experience. Vulnerability First, let me talk about vulnerability. This could mean...

I am happy how the Singapore Dec workshop turned out. I had been worried about it quite a lot. It was a pilot program for a group of...