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How to make a useful difference with minimal micro-coaching
You are micro-coaching in those moments of glimpsed possibility during a conversation…
Top tip for productive online break-out sessions..
Preparing for a recent Inspirational Facilitator webinar, I found this neat tip for online sessions…
Why improvisers embrace emergence
We often notice improvisation when what we expect to happen doesn’t happen. And that’s the beauty of it! It’s not all planned out and predictable. It’s the improvisation that provides the additional value…
How to Let Go to take your facilitation to the next level
To learn more about the art of letting go – such as letting go of unhelpful judgements and needless perfectionism – sign up to the waiting list of our forthcoming ‘Inspirational Facilitator’ online course!
Engage from the start – or face the big switch off!
Online it’s easy for participants to turn their attention elsewhere. If we are all physically together in a room, the audience is likely to sit and listen to a speaker, at least for a while. How do you engage from the start?
Creating the value of the in-person element
It’s all changing again. After two years or so with only one face-to-face session with real people in a real room, suddenly the diary increasingly features in-person events…
What’s going on now for facilitators?
It’s fascinating to explore trends, and in my Inspirational Facilitator course last week we discussed ‘What’s going on now for facilitators?’
Are you playing to win or playing to play?
With my passion for improvisation and play, I’d be a good example of how access at university through official and unofficial channels to squad training, squash courts and even brief tasters of hockey and canoeing, nurtured sports as part of a lifetime’s wellbeing…
Are you a journalist, poet or diarist?
A key characteristic of the Third Wave of improvisation is one where everyone succeeds to some extent. Your creative writing style can be divided into one of three types: journalist, poet or diarist. Which one are you?
How to apply time pressure in training
You have just one minute to read this article..
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How to be a better public speaker by paying attention to critical variables that can help you
If you want to be better at anything, pay attention to the critical variables. That’s the most brilliant insight from Tim Gallwey’s Inner Game work…
The Clovis Quadrant
What do you already know about success and failure?
Let’s explore four possible sequences…
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