Sparking Innovation: How Collective Effervescence Can Power Your Workshops
Have you ever been to a concert, sports event or other live shows and found yourself singing along, waving your hands and potentially getting quite emotional at being part of a big group of likeminded people who are all there…
Why your APS census results should mean something
It happens every year. The APS Employee Census results are in. You spend three or four weeks pouring over the results. Dissecting the good and the bad. Debating the internal communications approach. Someone writes the action plan. And… nothing. Silence. The…
Value = We connect you to the outside world
A few weeks ago, I did a planning day with a communications branch. It was an opportunity for the whole team to stop and discuss ‘why are we here?’. As a group, I challenged them to find the words to…
Take time to reflect as a team
This week I ran a workshop for a team in the ACT Government. The team has had a hectic year and wanted to take time out to reflect on their shared experience and look at how they could continue to…
Behind the scenes in workshop design
Ever wondered how facilitators work? How do they design a workshop? Why do you even need a facilitator? I had a chat to Samantha Sutherland about how we work together to design workshops to lift the curtain on the process…
Give a man a workshop, and he’ll learn for a day. Teach a man to facilitate, and he will engage for a lifetime.
Or so the saying goes. Last week, I had the most fantastic experience! I joined Samantha Sutherland and headed to the Cook Islands to train several local public servants how to facilitate. To say our participants were less than enthusiastic…
