Nancy White in Australia
30 October 2009 1One of the joys of blogging is ‘meeting’ people who challenge, inspire and are creative. Nancy White is one of those people and one day we WILL meet, face-to-face. But not this November. While I’m in Nancy’s home territory – the Pacific North West of the USA – Nancy will be visiting Australia and conducting…
Insanely Great Slideshows
23 September 2009 0Some of you might know that Geoff Brown and I have been playing with slideshows – learning ourselves how to make them insanely great and providing some training to share what we’ve learned with others. Two of our key influencers have been Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen guru and Nancy Duarte, slide:ology guru You can go…
A dilemma
30 August 2009 0Keith Sawyer has an interesting post about collaboration and learning. He concludes with this statement: “So many of our most important learning experiences happen when we are in groups with others, and this is why understanding collaboration is central to the study of learning.” And therein lies the dilemma for those of us who work…
Here’s a Facilitating With Confidence manifesto 1.0
27 August 2009 0Facilitating With Confidence Manifesto View more presentations from Viv McWaters.
Stepping into manual photography
23 August 2009 0Here’s a photo that I took today. It’s unremarkable, really. And as I continue on my photographic journey I hope I will eventually have some remarkable photos to post. But back to this one. It represents a learning journey, because it’s one of the first photos I’ve taken on my gorgeous new Canon Powershot G10…
Rebooting
13 August 2009 0Last year, Anne Pattillo and I started up a new business together – Facilitating With Confidence. We’d tried our hands at facilitation training before and became frustrated when people learnt enough to ask us to come and do the tricky gigs, but didn’t have enough confidence to have a go themselves, even though we knew…
You say tomato, I say…
3 August 2009 0A friend, who shall remain nameless for the time being, wrote an update on Facebook the other day saying she had just bought a new bathing suit. Now apart from the fact that I am insanely jealous of seemingly EVERYONE ELSE in the world who is taking holidays right now, and I’m not, this little…
No regrets decision making
22 July 2009 0I’m a bit wary of certainty. And sure, I like a bit of certainty as much as the next person. If I’m really honest, I’d let my inner control freak out and say I like being in control. That’s why my work is a constant challenge – staying open to possibility, exploring, being curious and…
Forgetting to ‘be average’
13 July 2009 5So I’m stuck. Not sure what to write, questioning if anyone’s interested, cares or even wants to hear what I have to say. Stuck in an endless feedback loop with myself: one part of me saying “I’m going to finally write that book”. The other side saying “Whatever you write has already been written –…
Difficulties with the ‘what happened?’ conversation
9 July 2009 0A while back Roland Harwood of NESTA blogged about connecting and networking and relationship building. I’ve found myself using the premise of his argument – conversations first, then relationships, then transactions – many times since, and try to provide opportunities for people to have conversations and develop relationships. I suspect many of us have lost…