Posted in Facilitation, tagged brainstorming, ideas, innovation, Parenting Wisdom on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been a tough couple of weeks with the monkeys. We’re in one of those phases where hanging out with them is sort of fun, but sort of a pain in the a** because we keep finding ourselves having to work really hard to get them to follow directions.
The other day I had to put [...]
Posted in Learning and Teaching, tagged yoga, consulting, expectation setting, managing on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m a bit of a sloucher. It’s an ingrained habit which I’m not particularly proud of. In fact, if you forced me to make a list of 10 things I’d like to change about my physical presence, standing up straight would probably make the top 5.
Until recently, I didn’t seem to be able to do anything [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged expectation setting, movies, Parenting Wisdom, role models, Westerns, working moms on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I just finished watching 3:10 to Yuma, which was a completely enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. Like all Westerns, it was a story about What It Means To Be A Man wrapped in a plot involving horses, guns, and manhunts.
What was particularly interesting about this one was it’s emphasis on parenthood - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The final piece of advice that the Heaths have for folks looking to help their ideas stick is to tell more stories. This can be challenging in a business context where we’re more used to people weaving statistics into their presentations than compelling narratives. But the human brain is wired to recall and retain stories. It [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged Parenting Wisdom, learning on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
At school and at work, we learn to build on our experiences.
In fact, the older the get, the longer we’re supposed to remember information. When you’re younger, you get tested on what you’ve learned that week, or that month. By the time you’re in college or graduate school, you may only get tested once every [...]
Posted in Managing Expectations, tagged cooking with kids, ideas, Managing Expectations on May 4, 2008 | No Comments »
A colleague of mine had a former life in community organizing and development. In that role, he spent much of his time running meetings and getting organizations with various agendas to cooperate for the greater good of the community. He is an expert facilitator and one of the best people I know at working an idea through an [...]
