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3 Ways Facilitators Sabotage Their Own Sessions (opens the original)
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This article is part of our series called ✨ The Spark - aimed at folks in L&D, Facilitation, and People & Culture teams. Not for you? Opt out of this type of content without unsubscribing overall, by going to your Substack Settings, selecting our publication, and toggling off ‘The Spark’.We’ve been facilitating discussions since the late cretaceous period and so have had time to accrue a decent collection of mishaps. We were recently
Awake At The Wheel (opens the original)
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We often encounter leaders who talk about “flattening the hierarchy”. The assumption is that, if they can smash the rigid pyramid, allow anyone to use whatever tools they like, and tell everyone to move fast, a productive, innovative, happy organization will spontaneously emerge.Then reality inevitably steps in and punctures that assumption. This happens because the ‘flat = best’ policy ignores an essential idea: cybernetics.Before the word ‘cybernetics’ was hijacked by sci-fi authors to describ
The Reason Your Updates Are Getting Overlooked (opens the original)
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There is a particular kind of meeting that most people have sat through at least once. Someone is presenting. They set the context. They explain the background. They walk through what they looked at and why. And somewhere around minute twelve, you realise you still have no idea what they are actually recommending.The frustrating thing is that the person presenting is often very smart. They have done the work. They’re just communicating in the manner we’ve all been trained to ever since Alexander
Why One-Off Improv Workshops Don't Really Work (opens the original)
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This article is part of our series called ✨ The Spark - aimed at folks in L&D, Facilitation, and People & Culture teams. Not for you? Opt out of this type of content without unsubscribing overall, by going to your Substack Settings, selecting our publication, and toggling off ‘The Spark’.There’s a scene in Season 3 of Hacks where the lea
The Art of the Warm Up (opens the original)
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This article is part of our series called ✨ The Spark - written for folks in L&D, Facilitation, and People & Culture teams. Not for you? Opt out of this type of content without unsubscribing overall, by going to your Substack Settings, selecting our publication, and toggling off ‘The Spark’.There’s a moment at the start of many group gatherings that frequently gets handled badly. Someone says something like: “Right, let’s go around and say our names and an interesting fact about ourselves.
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