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What is a DACUM? The benefits of contributing to field building
(Photo by Martino Pietropoli on Unsplash) “What is a DACUM?” I asked, when I received an email inviting me to join one from an IAF learning webinar co-presenter. DACUM, which stands for “Developing a Curriculum,” is an occupational analysis technique developed in the 1960s that employs a panel of master practitioners in a field to “capture […]
The Many Splendid Shapes and Sizes of Virtual Workshops
There has been a raft of flipped workshops recently where F2F events have been redesigned to be held virtually, and it is fascinating what a rich diversity of designs there are. Some of them have been reworked as big blocks of synchronous together time that aim to closely mimic the programme of the original F2F […]
No Flipcharts at No-Fly Workshops – Using Google Docs and Google Sheets to Capture Virtual Group Work Effectively
(Note from Gillian: This is a very long, detailed, and rather geeky post. I write this as I have been asked a few times recently for “how to” information on how to set up these kinds of group work templates for virtual workshops.) As we get more comfortable with getting work done collectively through No-Fly […]
No-Fly Workshops: Tips for Grounded Facilitators
No-Fly Workshops are becoming increasingly popular as people become more sensitive to carbon emissions from air travel, respond to budget freezes or higher scrutiny of trips and travel, and try to profit from the time savings afforded by avoiding long flights or trips to meetings. We know that face-to-face (F2F) meetings are good for social […]
Facilitation Step Change? Add WhatsApp to Your Large Workshop
Breakout room 5 (the one on the other side of the building) is out of flip chart paper! Where’s my Key Note Speaker? Anyone seen the group work template for Table 3 (after 2 hours of hard work), it’s not in the stack? The online location for saving the country screencasts has changed to… […]
Why Am I Playing (and Loving) Pokemon Go? Confessions of an Adult Learning Practitioner
Released in early July, Pokemon Go – the new location-based, augmented reality game – has been the perfect summer-time companion. It gets people outdoors and moving around day or night. But is it just a walk-around-and-catch-monsters-in-your-backyard game? Maybe I am just rationalizing the hours of playing (that’s me above, Level 20!), but I see some interesting […]
How Do You Organize Your To-Do’s, Tasks and Work Flow? A Blog Post for Productivity Geeks Only
It is always interesting and fun to swap personal productivity systems tips and techniques with others. How do other professionals organize themselves, their information and workflow? How do they keep their tasks and “to do’s” up to date? Do they combine home with work projects? All great questions that we have all pondered at one […]
Glints and Gleanings from TEDGlobal 2014
Attending a TED event is like spending 5 days surrounded by shiny objects – great opening lines to speeches, weird facts, interesting turns of phrase, amazing visuals, and those random ideas that you get that are sparked by something that the speaker says, and more – and from amongst all this having to choose what […]
I’m Working! Mobile Working Can Be Highly Effective, From Anywhere…
Believe it or not, one of my most productive work days this week was here. At the risk of no one taking me seriously again, I wanted to write briefly about mobile working… from a water park. Sometimes your kids have a day off, beg you to take them to Aqua Park because it is […]
Presidents and Protocol: Facilitating Processes with High Level Participants
First of all, I wouldn’t dare give any tips about what exactly to do when you have Presidents, Vice Presidents, members of a Royal Family etc. involved in your event. In my experience, every country has its own preferred protocol, and you can be sure that these high-level people also have a team around them […]
Preaching to the Choir – Learning for Environmentalists
I work with many environment and development groups working together in meeting/conference settings which often match content experts as speakers for audiences of members from their own community (e.g. sustainability experts talking to other sustainability practitioners). Depending on the level of intervention, this reflection often gets labelled as “preaching to the choir”. I’m sure this is a familiar occurrence. […]
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Mobile Worker’s Checklist: Don’t Forget Your ‘Phone
Today I left my phone at home again and only discovered this 20 min before my flight was boarding for a 3-day work trip to Stockholm. Thankfully I had my iPad and computer, both with Skype; not the same as a telephone but would do in a pinch. However, that doesn’t take away the fact that […]
Online Facilitation – Adapting to a Virtual Environment with Free(mium) Tools – Part One
We’ve written a number of posts about both facilitation and the use of online tools for virtual and face to face events. See, for example: ● “The Connected Facilitator: What’s in the Online Toolbox?”, ● “Look Behind You! The Webinar Facilitator’s Non-Technical Checklist”, ● The Two-Day Total Twitter Immersion: Using Twitter for Social Learning“, ● […]
Online Facilitation – Adapting to a Virtual Environment with Free(mium) Tools – Part Two
Following part one of this blog post (which shares some examples of tools that are either free or have a “freemium” model and which we think can be usefully used in online facilitation), this part two shares some ideas about how you might adapt facilitation methodologies to an online environment using tools that are either […]
If You Give a Productivity Fan an Invoice to Write, She’ll… (A Cautionary Tale of Productivity)
(With apologies, or perhaps thanks to “If You Give a Moose a Muffin“) This is a cautionary tale about why you need to take extra steps to stay productive and focused in a home office. If you give a Gillian an invoice to write, she’ll write the invoice and then she’ll want to complete the […]
Complex Event? Anatomy of a Facilitator’s Notebook
I recently facilitated an enormously complex 2-day event, with over 100 people (numbers shifted hourly), multiple process owners, and a continuously evolving agenda. The more exciting things got, the more interventions were sought (e.g. seat on a panel, announcement, chair role, changing speakers, changing titles, etc.) The nature of the event meant that each request […]
Learning with the Business Model Generation’s Canvas
Synchronicity. That is the best word I can come up with to describe my first introductions to ‘Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionairies, Game Changers, and Challengers’ – simultaneously via my neighbours the Ortelli’s who know lead author Alexander Osterwalder and rightly thought it was a book I would love, and via my Hub […]
Time to Reflect: Cooking Up Your GTD Weekly Review
As many of my friends and acquaintances know I am a big fan of Getting Things Done (see the blog’s GTD tag on this, and also the tag on Productivity). One of the GTD tenets is the “Weekly Review” and there are some great resources for this – from the GTD Times article The GTD […]
Swimming in the Sea of Learning Resources
I am currently working with a team focusing on biodiversity conservation and assessment to “makeover” an existing training curriculum into one even more interactive and learner-focused. As a part of this process I offered to put together a selected list of resources, from the raft of those available, that are particularly useful to me in this kind of work. As […]
How to Go to TED (or at least TEDGlobal)
(Note: I went to TEDGlobal this year in Oxford, so this is written from my experience, and may be very different for the other TED events.) Going to TEDGlobal was like jumping into an icy stream, or swimming in Lake Geneva at 4 degrees C. It took endurance, a little craziness, and provided that kind […]
Learning from Best Practice: What Can You Do With That?
(Note from me: This (rather long) post was inspired by my partner in this exercise who challenged me to try to blog about our own process reflections. It seemed congruent to frame it as a “How To” – so this is my learning about learning!) In many project documents and programme concept notes you see mention of building on or using learning from […]
Paper Free and Fast: Using Posterous for Workshops
I am at a workshop of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) in the Scottish Highlands (beautiful, yet not the best place to be when an Icelandic Volcano erupts.) CEC is one of IUCN’s 6 expert Commissions, which are global knowledge networks of individual practitioners that contribute […]
Warning: This Post is Rated PG (Practitioner Guidance Suggested)
I am writing what’s turning out to be a very long report that’s thinking about the evolution of training into learning. And I’m very much enjoying the late night research part, which flicks me serendipitiously through many of the grainy midnight channels of the World Wide Web, as well as into some brighter and more […]
Putting Action into Words (Hunh?)
I have been spending the last weeks at my desk developing a shared “curriculum” for a trio of sustainability leadership development programmes in different parts of Africa. I find myself writing about activities that help people make impact in their contexts and communities, and about how to take ideas from rhetoric to behaviour change. That’s […]
11 Ways to Build More Learning Into Your Work Life
Learning can be a useful accelerator for the work you do. It can help keep you motivated, let you experience your progress in a different way, keep you engaged with wider processes. So how can you build more learning into your work life? As a learning practitioner, I asked myself this question, and here is […]
Brainstorming about Brainstorming
This week I was asked to facilitate a session on “Brainstorming” for the monthly meeting of the Geneva Facilitators Network (linked to the International Association of Facilitators which certified Lizzie and I last December as CPFs). It sounded like a relatively easy brief, however it proved to need some deeper thinking to make it interesting […]
Facilitators Demo Day: Learning from Good Practice
When do you get the opportunity to watch and participate in the work of 10 different facilitators in one day? We did yesterday by hosting a Facilitators’ Demonstration and Learning Day (see previous blog post: Facilitators Demonstration Day – Bringing Together Supply and Demand). We had professional facilitators coming from the Geneva area, neighbouring France, […]
What’s New for HeatSeekers? Using Twitter in Meetings
If you look up “Heatseeker” in Wikipedia, you get redirected immediately to “Missile Guidance”, and a long explanation of how these kinds of missiles work to find their targets. However, the top link of this entry is another redirection to Billboard weekly album chart’s Top Heatseekers which refers to a selected list of new and […]
Gold Nuggets from the GTD Summit
The last panel I went to at the GTD Summit in San Francisco was called “Best Practices to Good Habits: Can I Make GTD Stick?” The panelists were GTD coaches and very experienced practitioners. As can be expected the discussion produced some gold nuggets in the form of tips to making GTD a habit. A […]
The Leadership Quality Called Courage
In times of extreme change, be they ecological or financial, leadership is a focus of deep discussion and heightened observation, and the source ultimately of trust in decisions and hope in the future. Courage is widely accepted as one important leadership quality. Let’s say that courage is a good thing, we want to see even […]
Informal Learning and the Financial Crisis: Lessons for Practitioners
When people ask us what our unit does, the Learning and Leadership Unit, we often say that we do capacity development by stealth. That is, we focus much more on informal learning than on the more obvious training courses to help build capabilities and improve the overall effectiveness and impact of our organization and its […]
R.E.S.P.E.C.T…
“…Find out what it means to me,” began Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot in a speech (Boston, November 2008) which re-resonates with me as I reflect on it, thinking about core values. What are our core-values? Is respect amongst them? And what does respect mean to each of us? Do we confuse it with civility – with habit […]
Facilitator for Today: Thought Leader for Tomorrow?
In our organizations, who are the people igniting the passions of those around them? Who mobilizes the talents of the people they work with and builds collective as well as individual strength of others? Who are the ‘Thought Leaders’? And how are they leading thought? (See Robin Ryde’s short video which inspired this post.) In […]
Adventures in Facilitation
Over 9 hours today, Aisha (co-facilitator for this big conference in La Reunion) and I drove one and a half hours into the mountains to heroically visit our workshops’ venues for tomorrow, and then another hour to the Thursday venues, where we: * Visited and counted over 1700 chairs in 37 workshop rooms;* Tested coffee […]
