How to deliver a great TED talk – Sketchnote
This is a quick sketch note of the book "How to deliver a great TED talk" by Akash Karia. The book provides some excellent tools and tips for [...]
Illuminate – Sketchnote
A quick sketch note of the book "Illuminate" by Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez. The book is about the use of effective communication to support change and transformation [...]
Experience with Open Education – H817 Week 7 Activity 1
The first activity on Block 2 of H817 asks us to write a blog post that describes our experience with open education. My experiences of open education are fairly limited [...]
Shane Sutton – Performance coaching – A conversation Sketchnote
Yesterday I had the opportunity, at a private event for OTD, a training company I do associate work for, to listen to Shane Sutton OBE talk about performance [...]
Virtual team learning – 10 tips for success – H817
Over the last few weeks on the H817 Open University course, we were tasked to develop some activities in virtual study groups in teams of five people. [...]
Graphic scribing tips
PAGE DEFUNCT - PLEASE VISIT MY VISUAL HUB FOR LATEST VERSION! These are tips I have picked up from the Graphic Facilitation group on Facebook about how [...]
Systems Thinking Book
After reading "Working Out Loud" by John Stepper, I have decided to embark on two Working Out Loud projects for 2016. One is the creation of a simple [...]
Compendium software – Act5 Part 2 H817
These are my thoughts and notes around Compendium software in its relation to being innovative. To quote the Compendium Institute (2016): "Compendium is a software tool providing [...]
Airplane productivity – Sketch noting time?
I have done a couple of of return flights to Germany (Frankfurt and Stuttgart) this week and I reflected on how best to use my time on [...]
Comfort Zone – not 303
This is the fifth in a series of articles around key concepts that have impacted me personally and professionally over the course of my career. I cam [...]
The Performance equation – not 303
This is the fourth, in an occasional series, of articles around key concepts that have had a signifiant impact on me as a business leader, person, coach, [...]
Thinking Tools – DATT – not 303
This is the third of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. When considering to [...]
5 tips for receiving feedback – dead
Over the last few months I have written a series of articles on preparing, framing and giving feedback to people in organisations. This final, tenth article, looks [...]
FAQ: Twitter for facilitators – not 303
As International Facilitation Week ramps up, I wanted to contribute by trying to connect more facilitators globally together through Twitter. In order to do this, I thought [...]
Reducing negative reactions to feedback – dead
In my conversations around why people do not give performance improving feedback the number one reason is the fear or uncertainty of how to deal with negative [...]
Effective Feedback: BIFF feedback model – dead
In my recent research around feedback and feedback mnemonics I came across BIFF. Whilst the word biff signifies a small blow or punch, you could say that [...]
Feedback to teams – 3 Tools – dead
I have written quite a lot about about one on one feedback recently but not taken the time to consider team feedback. As I was recently reading [...]
Leadership feedback – Cedar feedback Model – dead
In a recent article I looked at the BOOST framework for giving feedback. In that article, the B was for Balance.That is a balance of time the [...]
Motivation STORM – leadership engagement – dead
In preparation for a programme in October on Strategy Execution for Senior Leaders, I have been reading "Seven Strategy Questions: A simple approach for better execution" by [...]
ChangeWorks ChangeGrid Certified – dead
Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd July 2013) I completed my ChangeWorks ChangeGrid Certification. What is ChangeWorks®? ChangeWorks is a system that applies the principles, insights, tools and techniques of [...]