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 Decision Making, tagged gut, consulting, client management, childcare, learning on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my Strengthsfinders strengths that I’ve always identified with is input, which means that I’m a collector of information. In my case, it means that I’m an information addict, filing pieces away in my brain, overloading on data, never shirking a web search when more information might be out there that might be able to help me in [...]
Posted in Facilitation, tagged energy levels, meeting management, consulting on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Some days I am so tired I can’t imagine spending another 10 minutes playing with my kids, let alone the rest of the day. Often, I find that if I just start jumping around a lot, singing really loudly, or otherwise engaging with them in an overly energetic state, I actually build up enough energy [...]
Posted in Acknowledging Emotions, tagged client management, consulting, expectation setting, Parenting Wisdom on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the things I’ve learned from work is around setting expectations. The work that we do is often ambiguous and we often take our clients through a process is is scary, uncontrollable and unlike anything they’ve ever been involved in before. And we need to get through that process so that we can generate [...]
