The Tension
The Vessel & The Lens
Last week I had lunch with a friend who, like me, is a recent graduate of a
coaching certification program.
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Designing experiences that stick and frameworks that work
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KPIs: The slide snap
Here are couple of simple KPIs for all the teachers, facilitators, and keynote
speakers out there.
1. How many times
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Are you running a meetup or a workshop?
The corridor of uncertainty, and not getting what you came for.
A few weeks ago I ran a pilot of
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Back to business school: the new case study
Almost every form of school and education is getting questioned, queried,
unbundled, and rethought.
The same is happening in business
Teaching
Cultivate your questions carefully
Last week I went on a training course. In these situations I tend to be either
very engaged or very
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The two workshop danger zones
A few years ago, researchers from Ben Gurion and Columbia universities examined
over 1,000 decisions made by Israeli judges
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Dress Up, Dress Down.
Since 2015 I’ve been a workshop facilitator and teacher serving all sorts of
groups: teenagers, graduates, mid level managers,
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Gateway Drugs
Let’s start at happy hour, the mixer, the meetup.
You show up and contribute. Through a conversation, an idea,
Stage Left
Cross Training: The ChefTender and The KitBar
Last week I was facilitating an education program in Herndon, Virginia.
Herndon is an interesting little place – sat right next
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The Kitchen
There’s a new kitchen opening up in town.
Some ingredients are grown in-house – simple but juicy tomatoes, colourful
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3 flavours of workshop
The word ‘workshop’ can mean different things to different people.
Not remembering this can result in us being misunderstood. We
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80/20 in Group Dynamics
In a group of say a dozen people, you may notice 80% of the people speak. 20%
don’t.
In
Learning, Education & Growth
Your Dunbar number
Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom
one can maintain stable social
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Winning at the great game: How to improve student results
The consistently excellent Farnam Street podcast recently featured a marathon
episode with the investor and educator Adam Robinson. It was
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The 2 most important slides for your workshop
They’re obvious, but often missed.
They’re not glamorous, entertaining, jaw-dropping, or photogenic.
But they make a lasting
Coaching
Finding mentors & advisors: 1:1 or a roster?
A couple of weeks ago I attended a really interesting seminar at Orbital here in
NYC.
The hosts Gary and
Podcast
Tickets podcast: Marc Lewis on running the world's most awarded advertising school
Listen now:
Apple Podcasts
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Resources
Workshop Slide Deck (guided): Lifecycles in products, companies, and careers
Introduction
This is a workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated
and abbreviated version, with some classroom