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(Source: press.ikidane-nippon.com) An executive made a casual remark in a recent intact team development workshop, 'Smoking (together)...

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

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...

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

This is further to the last post - Learning about learning in a French language class. I cannot help note down a few more amazing...

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...

A recent conversation with a fellow coach came to something rather interesting. Our argument is that in order to the job well, a...

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...

Following from the argument from the last post, there are 2 questions 1. How to assist the participants to learn from the odd moments...

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...

Further reflection on the Tavistock experience – As said, it is a very uncommon learning experience. To the extreme, for some parts, I...

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 view from my hotel room was surprisingly stunning!!] I attended the IAF Asia conference last month in Tokyo. Different from last...

Watch it.  Just 4 mins.  I particularly like the analogies!

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...

I suspect that this is true – there will never be a ‘perfect’ facilitated session. I came to this realisation when I facilitated a...

I am reflecting with a guru on some of my team facilitation experience. More and more I realise that it is equally (if not more)...