I get to facilitate a fascinating discussion on Explicit and Implicit Bias in a University setting next week. The focus is on implementing more diversity in hiring for tenured faculty positions – particularly in STEM subjects, which, over the last…
Your Group on Conflict: 7 Questions that Reveal Team Chemistry
I had a problem. An important element of my newly invented facilitation tool Shift/POV was not being received as well as I had hoped. And no matter how I tried to rework the marketing language, the instructions, the methodology, somehow,…
Learn from My Mistake: 5 Questions that will Save Your Big Idea!
There are times when I’m not a very subtle person. I get enthusiastic about a new brainstorm and want to share with others right away. Why I don’t know better after decades in this world, I don’t know. But maybe…
A Sense of Place…. How well do you know where you work?
I first notice the contrast in light – dark blue mountains in the background as the storm clouds grumble away – slapped into submission by strong western sunlight. And the lake surrounded by hills – the blue mirroring the mountains,…
3 Ways to Unlearn from Experience…
When I was growing up in Colorado, my dad was a rock climbing instructor and just about every summer/fall weekend would find us up in the Rockies dangling from ropes hundreds of feet above the ground. I still know how…
6 Ways to use SILENCE in Your Next Meeting & Why You Want To…
I have a brilliant colleague – maybe you do too – who will NOT stop talking. A group of us drove with her from Portland, ME to Boston for an education event, and she proceeded in her 1-way “conversation” for…
Love em or Hate em…Games have Impact in Adult Learning
People have interesting reactions to training “games” in the workplace. And interesting varieties of history with them, often predicated on whether or not they have “won” a particular game, and whether games were effectively used as learning tools in their…
Why it’s Worth Getting Input from the Misfits and Mavericks
Despite the cold scrambled egg breakfasts and ubiquitous power point presentations in my monthly networking groups, I try to stay alert to new ideas and intriguing new terms, like this one: “Integrated Marginality”. I googled it and found studies done…
We Are All Elephants
You enter the meeting like a Ninja warrior. You are prepped, pumped and powerful. This time, you’ll really knock their socks off…. They have to sign on to this idea…it’s a no-brainer solution! You do the sales pitch of a…
5 Ways to Get Your Colleague (You Know the One) into Presentation Training
He’s your content expert ….. and his personality disappears in presentations. She’s the smartest engineer on your team…and her body language radiates hostility in public settings…. Or, perhaps he’s the star IT techie so sure of himself in front of…