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Designing with the ActivoGraph

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I’m sure you’ve designed or used activities for your trainings and workshops that just seem to work out great every time. Then occasionally, with others, perhaps you’ve run into trouble. Sometime back, while facilitating one of our Journey of Facilitation & Collaboration workshops, I was frustrated by this one activity that never seemed to work […]

Delivery Diversity

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How excited would you be about sitting down to dinner when every night you sat down to the same dish of luke warm green peas? Doesn’t sound all that appealing does it. If you were the chef, would you expect people to be very interested in even showing up for your meals, much less being […]

Designing Experiential Activities

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Unlearning barriers to collaboration start with unlearning barriers within ourselves. One of the most effective ways to uncover attitudes and behavior patterns that might be getting in the way of our best work with ourselves or others, is through effectively facilitated experiential activities. While most trainers and facilitators see the value in experiential activities, many […]

Kick It Off Right

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We all know the power of first impressions. Once we have an impression of someone or something, either positive or negative, we tend to believe our impressions. And for good or for ill, beliefs don’t change easy. Listen to this account submitted by one of our readers, Kim Stewart about a not so great kick […]