Podcasts by workshops work
The world is waking up to the power of facilitation. Whether it's hosting a workshop, holding better meetings, or leading happy and productive teams - we want to make collaboration easy and effective. Dr. Myriam Hadnes is the founder of NeverDoneBefore, a global online facilitation community and festival, and this is her podcast. 'workshops work' is 50% sandbox and 50% classroom, a safe space for anyone interested in facilitation to learn more about the craft. Each week, a professional facilitator, trainer, or coach joins Myriam to discuss their interests and experiences in the world of facilitation. The conversations are open, and honest, and make facilitation understandable and accessible to all.Get practical tips and advice from a raft of experts and uncover the magic ingredients that make workshops work. You can download a free 1-page summary of each episode on https://workshops.work/podcast
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Dare to Facilitate! with Jenny Theolin from 2023-12-13T00:00
Most of us live our lives in a natural, psychological state of comfort. It’s cushioned, it’s safe - it’s what we know. But what happens when we dare to seek out the unknown? When we raise our he...
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Navigating the New Normal: Challenges and Opportunities of Remote Leadership with Stephan Dohrn from 2023-12-06T17:00
The fundamental skills of leadership have changed in the 2020s. Whether you’re brand-new to a leadership role or a seasoned veteran, the remote work boom has added a new layer of complexity to y...
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Unleashing the Power of Movement in Facilitation with Kate Spacek from 2023-11-29T00:00
A sense of belonging is one of the incalculable elements of a healthy, happy team. It’s either there or it’s not, right?
Not so, as Kate Spacek explains in this episode.
Kate’s work,...
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Building Bridges with Basketball: Learnings about Facilitation with Tony McGarahan from 2023-11-22T00:00
From the basketball courts of Northern Ireland to the C-suites of tech giants, Tony McGarahan just can’t stop coaching!
After a decade at Google, Tony set up his own training and people de...
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The Interplay of Design Thinking, Facilitation and Leadership with Shamir Joseph from 2023-11-15T00:00
Changing behaviour is something of a holy grail in our line of work. It’s one thing to help a group see things in a new light, but to integrate it in a way that creates lasting change… that’s th...
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Shaping Meaningful Corporate Connections with Göran Hielscher from 2023-11-08T00:00
The corporate world can feel like a theme park — a place that’s recognisably ‘of our world’, with all the normal features (people, furniture, work), but an unshakeable feeling that something is…...
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Are You Experienced? Gaining and Giving Experiences on the Road to Facilitation with Cate Czerwinski from 2023-11-01T00:00
Workshops bring the best out of their participants when they are experiential. Which person wants to sit in a workshop that is indeterminable from a lecture? We do not enter these spaces for dic...
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The Labyrinth of Corporate Facilitation: Power, Compassion, and Change with Breeze Dong, Gabor Bittera&Tobias Mayer from 2023-10-25T00:00
Facilitating High-Impact Workshops with Joost de Leij from 2023-10-18T00:00
Joost de Leij has delivered over one thousand workshops, from informal group sessions to extensive work with the largest businesses worldwide. In that time, he’s learned a thing or two about eff...
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Transforming Brainstorming Sessions into Effective Workshops with Alexandre Eisenchteter from 2023-10-11T00:00
How can we make an informal brainstorming session, full of possibilities and quick thinking, into something more formal… without squeezing the life from it?
Alexandre Eisenchteter believes...
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Mind, Body, and Facilitation: Exploring Transformation with Joe Weston from 2023-10-04T00:00
Joe Weston has been helping individuals, teams, and companies look deeper within themselves for 30+ years. His unique mind-body approach — prioritising empowerment and resilience, but also great...
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Understanding Andragogy: The Key to Adult Learning with Joyce Matthews from 2023-09-27T00:00
Learning is a lifetime’s adventure, but, for many adults, a few bad experiences or a little bit of overconfidence can see them set in their ways and losing their love for learning.
In fact...
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How to Start, Build and Scale your Freelance Business with Michael Zipursky from 2023-09-20T00:00
Want to turn your passion for facilitation into a full-time, thriving, scalable business? Or are you already facilitating as your main job, but want to take it to a new level?
Michael Zipu...
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Bridging Organisations and Education: Inspiration from Montessori with Benedikt Schmaus from 2023-09-13T06:00
You leave school and enter the ‘real world’ of work. That’s the process, that’s the plan. But who’s to say that they should be so distinct? What if we brought knowledge from educational systems,...
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Understanding the Dynamics of Remote Work with Lisette Sutherland from 2023-09-06T00:00
The remote revolution is underway. Accelerated by the pandemic and snowballing ever since, the future of work is fast becoming our present day default.
But is it all going to plan? Lisette...
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Facilitating the New and Teaching the Inexistent with Jason Frasca and Iain Kerr from 2023-08-30T00:00
How would you facilitate something that doesn’t exist? Or, more to the point, how you would facilitate a group in a way that something inexistent could emerge?
Complexity and uncertainty m...
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Through a New Lens: The Transformative Power of Photography with Else Kramer from 2023-08-23T00:00
Say cheese, dear listeners! This week, Else Kramer joins me to discuss the creative and connective power of photography in a facilitation context.
Through the camera lens, we can see our e...
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Shaping the Room: Power, Vulnerability, and the Art of Facilitation with Michelle Howard from 2023-08-16T00:00
Everybody in the workshop process experiences some element of vulnerability.
The client is taking a risk on your skills and the outcomes that might emerge from using them. The participants...
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Mastering Facilitation to Navigate a Fractured World with Jo Nelson from 2023-08-09T00:00
Jo Nelson is one of the founders of ICA Associates Inc. and the International Association of Facilitators, as well as an IAF Hall of Fame inductee. All of which is to say, this episode is specia...
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Leading Through Facilitation: Unpacking the Complexity of Group Dynamics with Rob Evans from 2023-08-02T00:00
The prevailing view in organisations (and among their leaders) is that change processes are rational challenges — a question of getting from A to B with efficiency and minimal interruption.
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Collaboration: Unlocking the Secrets to Successful Partnerships with Alison Coward, Rebecca Sutherns and Sunni Brown from 2023-07-26T00:00
Alison Coward, Rebecca Sutherns and Sunni Brown are each exceptional facilitators in their own right, but that doesn’t mean they see things in exactly the same way.
They came together for ...
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The Process is the Outcome with Kirsten Clacey from 2023-07-19T00:00
Kirsten Clacey is a facilitator and coach, currently Head of Facilitation at Automattic’s Learn Division, with some brilliant perspectives on process, content, and learning.
What’s...
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Unleash Audience Engagement - From Ignored to Involved with Tina Lyngdoh and Lux Narayan from 2023-07-12T00:00
We’ve had plenty of practice with online meetings by now; we have fallen into the common trapdoors and know how to avoid them in the future. But is effectiveness enough? Shall we really set the ...
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Cracking the Code: Mastering Activism Facilitation and Empowering Communities with Anuschka Ruge from 2023-07-05T00:00
Activists are the fuel behind social change. Without them, we would stall and stutter and stop making progress. These are people who are driven by passion and strong beliefs — which certainly ma...
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Demystifying Experiential Learning with Romy Alexandra from 2023-06-28T00:00
Romy Alexandra is a one-woman revolution in Experiential Learning, driven by a passion for turning dull events into genuinely memorable and long-lasting trainings.
Combining the principles...
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Collabor(h)ate: Insights and Strategies for Effective Teamwork with Deb Mashek from 2023-06-21T00:00
Why is it that so many groups come together with a shared goal… and fail to make any meaningful progress?
This is the question that’s plagued Deb Mashek’s professional life — and it’s take...
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Unmasking the Hidden Influence: The Clean Language Approach with Judy Rees from 2023-06-14T00:00
Facilitation can be a messy business; what can we do to clean it up?
Judy Rees, who’s been working with groups for almost 20 years, thinks the answer lies in clean language. A focus on cle...
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Building Better Teams by Fostering Trust with Leigh Ann Rodgers from 2023-06-07T00:00
They say it takes a lifetime to build and a second to break… Trust is priceless to teams and the organisations in which they exist, so why is it so often overlooked as part of team-building?
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Unlocking Collaboration: Lessons from Zen about Facilitation with Sunni Brown from 2023-05-31T00:00
Keynote speaker, published author, zen student, innovator-in-residence, and facilitator — Sunni Brown has a whole village’s worth of knowledge, but, somehow, contains it all within just one cons...
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Insights and Challenges in the World of Facilitators: SessionLab's State of Facilitation Report 2023 with Filip Kis from 2023-05-24T00:00
What emerges when you survey 1,124 facilitators from 93 countries? The State of Facilitation — a snapshot of our profession for the year and a report packed with insights and direction for our c...
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Finding Your Facilitator Flow: The Art of Balancing Presence and Process with Sean Blair from 2023-05-17T00:00
Do you have a presence when you facilitate? (Hint: we all do, whether we mean to or not!)
The thing is, not all of us know it or practice it. Our presence is a combination of how we show u...
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Mastering Difficult Conversations: The Art of Communication through Role-Play with Kate Crawshaw from 2023-05-10T00:00
A difficult conversation can take many forms — emotionally intense, sharing unexpected information, challenging someone, reasserting boundaries.
Whatever ‘difficult’ looks like to you, we ...
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Thinking Tools: Unlocking Companies’ Potential with Stefan Fothe from 2023-05-03T00:00
Organisations will go to great lengths to create style guides, knowledge hubs, and team guides… so why aren’t they doing the same for problem-solving?
Stefan Fothe believes organisations s...
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Changing Change: How to Create Community and Culture Amidst Chaos with Rhys Cranney from 2023-04-26T00:00
An organisational change process is a big deal. The whole operating system of a business can change, the context switches, the foundations can falter.
But systems are systems — they are ma...
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Unleashing Autonomy: Facilitating Self-Organising Systems with Bob Dick from 2023-04-19T00:00
What happens to a group when there is no leader, no subordinates, and no sense of hierarchy at all? Bob Dick believes this is the optimal approach to group structures — to be self-organised, not...
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Why Conflict is a Gift: The Inner Journey of a Skilled Facilitator with Sarah Norton&Steve Ray from 2023-04-12T00:00
Conflict in workshops is common, but how many of us seek to avoid it instead of embracing it?
It’s understandable, and dare I say natural, to do so, but as Sarah Norton and Steve Ray expla...
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Bridging the World of Play and Corporate Life with Pauline McNulty from 2023-03-29T00:00
No CEO or board is going to sign off on a project to make work more playful. This is because the misconception that play = games persists.
The reality, however, is that more play at wor...
It's Not About the Workshop - How to Make Workplace Learning Stick with Steph Clarke from 2023-03-22T00:00
Workplace training and learning can inspire some varied responses. For some, a roll of the eyes and a sense of wasted time. For others (usually those who work with Steph Clarke), a brightening a...
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Facilitating F-Word Conversations with the Emotional Culture Deck with Jeremy Dean from 2023-03-15T00:00
Emotions are messy — they’re big, powerful, and changeable. Facts and data are much more palatable — they’re truths and we can discuss our use of them.
But if an organisation is so focused...
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Ingredients for a Memorable and Impactful Event with Jacques the Party Scientist from 2023-03-08T00:00
What makes some events better than others? Is it the host, the setting, the purpose, or something else?
Jacques Martiquet is The Party Scientist — he’s experimented, tested, and explored t...
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Facilitation and the Needs for Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness with Ib Ravn (Part 2) from 2023-03-01T00:00
Self-Determination Theory posits that human motivation is driven by three central values: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
If we take SDT and apply it as a framework to facilitati...
Facilitation and the Needs for Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness with Ib Ravn (Part 2) from 2023-03-01T00:00
Self-Determination Theory posits that human motivation is driven by three central values: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
If we take SDT and apply it as a framework to facilitati...
How to Facilitate with Equitable Hospitality with Maha Bali from 2023-02-22T00:00
It’s never been more important to facilitate with an awareness of power dynamics, systemic imbalances, and inequity within groups.
The progress we’ve made—collectively—towards awareness an...
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A Comprehensive Discussion on the Art and Science of Facilitation with ChatGPT from 2023-02-15T00:00
It’s the talk of the internet and business circles, the culmination of many years of research and training, and an amazing step forward into the next stage of technology enabled and enhanced lif...
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How to Build Team Performance with Games with Viren Thakrar (Part 2) from 2023-02-08T00:00
Nothing happens between childhood and adulthood that means we can no longer learn and grow through play, but for some reason we stop using this powerful tool once we get serious and put on blaze...
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How to Build Team Performance with Games with Viren Thakrar (Part 1) from 2023-02-08T00:00
Nothing happens between childhood and adulthood that means we can no longer learn and grow through play, but for some reason we stop using this powerful tool once we get serious and put on blaze...
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202 - How to Price your Facilitation and Coaching Services? with Jenny Millar from 2023-02-01T00:00
Does pricing make you prickle with anxiety? Imagine what it would be like to feel confident and calm about valuing your services… and now meet Jenny Millar, who can make that imagination a reali...
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201 - Thinking with Things with Jules Gilleland from 2023-01-25T00:00
Things—found objects, ephemera from the discarded world, are everywhere. A marble, a spoon, a coil of string. They’re forgettable and ignorable and they’re the magic ingredient that makes Jules ...
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200 - Your Questions, My Answers: Learnings from 200 Weeks of Podcasting with Myriam Hadnes from 2023-01-18T00:00
The latest milestone for the workshops work podcast—200 episodes! 200!
To celebrate the occasion, I’ve produced a special episode. Instead of speaking to a guest, I spoke to you.
And...
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199 - Facilitation Skills at Scale: Fidelity International's Facilitation Academy with Rod Butcher&Nikesh Patel (Part 2) from 2023-01-11T00:00
How do you create a culture of independent and empowered facilitation in a large business? Well, Rod Butcher and Nikesh Patel of Fidelity International posed me that question and, together, we c...
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199 - Facilitation Skills at Scale: Fidelity International's Facilitation Academy with Rod Butcher&Nikesh Patel (Part 2) from 2023-01-11T00:00
How do you create a culture of independent and empowered facilitation in a large business? Well, Rod Butcher and Nikesh Patel of Fidelity International posed me that question and, together, we c...
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198 - The Difficulty of Crafting the Simple with Gabor Bittera from 2023-01-04T00:00
“Keep it simple, stupid” is a popular refrain which might be better translated as “make it harder, stupid”!
One of the most common misunderstandings Gabor Bittera encounters in his mission...
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197 - How to Set Up Breakout Rooms for Success with Gwyn Wansbrough from 2022-12-28T00:00
In an on-site workshops, breakout groups are a tried and tested way to get the group thinking, communicating, and developing.
In online workshops, breakout rooms are a different beast.
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196 - Facilitation as Deliberate Sensemaking with Michael Hamman (Part 2) from 2022-12-21T00:00
Facilitation is a system that gives groups space to make sense — it’s not about guiding them towards something, nor is it about leading them.
But what is ‘deliberate sensemaking’ all about...
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196 - Facilitation as Deliberate Sensemaking with Michael Hamman (Part 2) from 2022-12-21T00:00
Facilitation is a system that gives groups space to make sense — it’s not about guiding them towards something, nor is it about leading them.
But what is ‘deliberate sensemaking’ all about...
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195 - Deconstructing the Meaning of Diversity, Equity&Inclusion with Meg Bolger from 2022-12-14T00:00
Meg Bolger is one of a few returning guests to this show, originally featured in episode 133 (’The conversation I wish I heard when I started facilitating’).
Our conversation this time was...
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194 - Learnings from Acting about Facilitation and Embodiment with Anna Momber-Heers from 2022-12-07T00:00
When you’re facilitating, where are you? In your head, your body, a role? There are no wrong answers, but there are plenty of interesting questions you can ask to better understand how you facil...
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193 - An Unhurried Conversation about Unhurried Facilitation with Johnnie Moore from 2022-11-30T00:00
How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling heard, like you put across the things you wanted to? Feeling relaxed, not frantic?
And how often do you workshops produce those same ...
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192 - Exploring Language Privilege in Facilitation with Florentine Versteeg (Part 2) from 2022-11-24T00:00
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192 - Exploring Language Privilege in Facilitation with Florentine Versteeg (Part 1) from 2022-11-23T00:00
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191 - What would a Bachelors of Facilitation Contain? An exploration with Marcus Crow from 2022-11-16T00:00
As facilitation has grown in popularity and awareness over the last decade. And, as markets grow, dilution and variance begins to naturally occur. Marcus Crow has been pondering this issue for a...
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190 - The Meaning of Courage in Facilitative Work with Roi Ben-Yehuda from 2022-11-09T00:00
Facilitation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of courage — we do not charge valiantly into battle or wrestle wild animals! — but the closer one looks at it, the mor...
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189 - Facilitation as an Art of Accepting Offers with Robert Poynton (Part 2) from 2022-11-03T00:00
Improvisation seems to have an inescapable connection with facilitation. It’s a topic we’ve touched on many times in this podcast but, to really dig into its depths, it made sense to speak with ...
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189 - Facilitation as an Art of Accepting Offers with Robert Poynton (Part 1) from 2022-11-02T06:00
Improvisation seems to have an inescapable connection with facilitation. It’s a topic we’ve touched on many times in this podcast but, to really dig into its depths, it made sense to speak with ...
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188 - How to Increase Accessibility of Online Workshops? with Marie Dubost (Part 2) from 2022-10-27T00:00
Accessibility — ensuring the spaces we create are open, welcoming, and easy for everyone to join — is a critical, but often neglected, issue in facilitation. It took the rise of online workshops...
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188 - How to Increase Accessibility of Online Workshops? with Marie Dubost (Part 1) from 2022-10-26T00:00
Accessibility — ensuring the spaces we create are open, welcoming, and easy for everyone to join — is a critical, but often neglected, issue in facilitation. It took the rise of online workshops...
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187 - The Seasons of Facilitation with Barbara Pedersen (Part 2) from 2022-10-20T00:00
Some of you who listen to this episode will not have been alive for 30 years, which gives Barb Pedersen the wonderful claim that she’s been facilitating since before you were born!
Not tha...
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187 - The Seasons of Facilitation with Barbara Pedersen (Part 1) from 2022-10-19T00:00
Some of you who listen to this episode will not have been alive for 30 years, which gives Barb Pedersen the wonderful claim that she’s been facilitating since before you were born!
Not tha...
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186 - Narrative Models in Exformative Design and Facilitation with Francis Laleman from 2022-10-12T00:00
Some episodes of this podcast have an extremely tight focus — a specific topic, inspected under scrutiny. Some episodes are like walks through a beautiful park, stopping and admiring different b...
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185 - Facilitation in Movement - Improvising into Growth with Tom Goldhand (Part 2) from 2022-10-06T00:00
Dance—especially improvised dance—is an arena for deep vulnerability, connection, and growth. It requires careful and considered facilitation, as you may have guessed!
Enter, Tom Goldhand!...
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185 - Facilitation in Movement - Improvising into Growth with Tom Goldhand (Part 1) from 2022-10-05T00:00
Dance—especially improvised dance—is an arena for deep vulnerability, connection, and growth. It requires careful and considered facilitation, as you may have guessed!
Enter, Tom Goldhand!...
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184 - Heart connections in the corporate world with Breeze Dong (Part 2) from 2022-09-29T00:00
Ask a group of leaders about heart connections in their organisations and you will likely be met with raised eyebrows and doubtful looks. Their loss—and Breeze Dong’s gain, as a veritable expert...
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184 - Heart connections in the corporate world with Breeze Dong (Part 1) from 2022-09-28T00:00
Ask a group of leaders about heart connections in their organisations and you will likely be met with raised eyebrows and doubtful looks. Their loss—and Breeze Dong’s gain, as a veritable expert...
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183 - The Secret to Engaging Virtual Meetings with John Chen (Part 2) from 2022-09-22T00:00
We’ve had plenty of opportunities to practice online facilitation since 2020, but have we reached a plateau? Has complacency crept in?
John Chen has been hosting (and training others to ho...
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183 - The Secret to Engaging Virtual Meetings with John Chen (Part 1) from 2022-09-21T00:00
We’ve had plenty of opportunities to practice online facilitation since 2020, but have we reached a plateau? Has complacency crept in?
John Chen has been hosting (and training others to ho...
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182 - On Purpose: A Client’s Perspective on a Facilitated Project with Sandy Wilson (Part 2) from 2022-09-15T00:00
What is it like to be on ‘the other side' of the workshop — to be a participant or a client?
This podcast has always focused on conversations with facilitators, but perspectives from ...
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182 - On Purpose: A Client’s Perspective on a Facilitated Project with Sandy Wilson (Part 1) from 2022-09-14T00:00
What is it like to be on ‘the other side' of the workshop — to be a participant or a client?
This podcast has always focused on conversations with facilitators, but perspectives from ...
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181 - The Facilitator as a Difficultator - New Perspectives and old Concepts with Tobias Mayer (Part 2) from 2022-09-08T00:00
Tobias Mayer’s experience as a scrum master has taken him around the world and across the upper echelons of the biggest names in tech. Those 20+ years have taught him a lot, but perhaps more imp...
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181 - The Facilitator as a Difficultator - New Perspectives and old Concepts with Tobias Mayer (Part 1) from 2022-09-07T00:00
Tobias Mayer’s experience as a scrum master has taken him around the world and across the upper echelons of the biggest names in tech. Those 20+ years have taught him a lot, but perhaps more imp...
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180 - How to Use (Video) Games as Medium to Facilitate Learning with Mohsin Memon (Part 2) from 2022-09-01T00:00
Mohsin Memon is a gaming expert—but he’s not spending his days playing shoot ‘em ups. Mohsin’s expertise lies at the crossroads of learning and gaming, where he spends his time creating immersiv...
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180 - How to Use (Video) Games as Medium to Facilitate Learning with Mohsin Memon from 2022-08-31T00:00
Mohsin Memon is a gaming expert—but he’s not spending his days playing shoot ‘em ups. Mohsin’s expertise lies at the crossroads of learning and gaming, where he spends his time creating immersiv...
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179 - Facilitation as a Diplomatic Skill in (Peace) Negotiations with Ron Ton (Part 2) from 2022-08-25T00:00
There are few spaces in which facilitation skills have a greater impact than diplomacy, yet conversations connecting the two are rare.
This episode changes that.
With over 30 years o...
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179 - Facilitation as a Diplomatic Skill in (Peace) Negotiations with Ron Ton (Part 1) from 2022-08-24T00:00
There are few spaces in which facilitation skills have a greater impact than diplomacy, yet conversations connecting the two are rare.
This episode changes that.
With over 30 years o...
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178 - Facilitating Transformation: A Conversation between Utopia and Reality with Douglas Breitbart (Part 2) from 2022-08-18T00:00
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178 - Facilitating Transformation: A Conversation between Utopia and Reality with Douglas Breitbart (Part 1) from 2022-08-17T00:00
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177 - What Love Has To Do With Facilitation with Lorenz Sell (Part 2) from 2022-08-11T00:00
Love is wonderful, it’s all around. Love is the finest thing in the world… but what’s it got to do with facilitation?
Spend and hour with Lorenz Sell and you’ll see the many threads that c...
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177 - What Love Has To Do With Facilitation with Lorenz Sell (Part 1) from 2022-08-10T00:00
Love is wonderful, it’s all around. Love is the finest thing in the world… but what’s it got to do with facilitation?
Spend and hour with Lorenz Sell and you’ll see the many threads that c...
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176 - Facilitating Feelings or: Creating Magic with Card Decks with Nick Kellet (Part 2) from 2022-08-04T00:00
Games or card decks are often used as fun activities in workshops. They’re seen as good tools for keeping a group energised and interested… but they can also be a tool for connection and communi...
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176 - Facilitating Feelings or: Creating Magic with Card Decks with Nick Kellet (Part 1) from 2022-08-03T00:00
Games or card decks are often used as fun activities in workshops. They’re seen as good tools for keeping a group energised and interested… but they can also be a tool for connection and communi...
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175 - The Meaning of Presence in Facilitation - A Group Conversation (Part 2) from 2022-07-28T00:00
Presence — it sounds like a simple concept, but it is littered with deeper questions.
Does our presence change when we are in a physical workshop or an online one? How can we work with a g...
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175 - The Meaning of Presence in Facilitation - A Group Conversation (Part 1) from 2022-07-27T00:00
Presence — it sounds like a simple concept, but it is littered with deeper questions.
Does our presence change when we are in a physical workshop or an online one? How can we work with a g...
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174 - Use Your Voice to Set the Tone with Joep Hegger (Part 2) from 2022-07-21T00:00
Before a workshop, training, or speech, which do you spend more time thinking about: what you will say or how you will say it?
Joep Hegger would argue that your voice — your tonality and d...
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174 - Use Your Voice to Set the Tone with Joep Hegger (Part 1) from 2022-07-20T00:00
Before a workshop, training, or speech, which do you spend more time thinking about: what you will say or how you will say it?
Joep Hegger would argue that your voice — your tonality and d...
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173 - It's Not About the Workshop - with Joeri – The Magic Sauce (Part 2) from 2022-07-14T00:00
Facilitation is such a broad brush with which to paint. Why is it, then, that so much of our work takes the form of workshops?
Meeting our clients’ needs and desired outcomes requires a fl...
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172 - Encounters with Uncertainty and: How to Integrate Neurodiversity with Matthew Bellringer (Part 2) from 2022-07-07T00:00
How many facilitators dream of a workshop in which everything goes exactly to plan? And how many facilitators have experienced that dream?
The nature of our work means we enter a space of ...
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172 - Encounters with Uncertainty and: How to Integrate Neurodiversity with Matthew Bellringer (Part 1) from 2022-07-06T00:00
How many facilitators dream of a workshop in which everything goes exactly to plan? And how many facilitators have experienced that dream?
The nature of our work means we enter a space of ...
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169 - Facilitating with the Awareness of Cultural Background with Cynthia Umurungi (Part 2) from 2022-06-16T00:00
Cynthia Umurungi is a storyteller who gives a human voice to African organisations and businesses.
Her voice is one I have wanted to share on this podcast for a long time - and not only be...
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169 - Facilitating with the Awareness of Cultural Background with Cynthia Umurungi (Part 1) from 2022-06-15T00:00
Cynthia Umurungi is a storyteller who gives a human voice to African organisations and businesses.
Her voice is one I have wanted to share on this podcast for a long time - and not only be...
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168 - How to Build your Real-Time Community Space with Daniel Liebeskind (Part 2) from 2022-06-09T00:00
Community is on the rise. It was just a few episodes ago that I spoke with Anamaria Dorgo about facilitating communities, but in this episode I’m looking further into the future.
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168 - How to Build your Real-Time Community Space with Daniel Liebeskind (Part 1) from 2022-06-08T00:00
Community is on the rise. It was just a few episodes ago that I spoke with Anamaria Dorgo about facilitating communities, but in this episode I’m looking further into the future.
What do c...
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167- The Art of Process Design - A live conversation (Part 2) from 2022-06-02T00:00
Process is a personal thing. We all have different ways of preparing workshops and designing their structure and flow.
When process design is so specific to each facilitator, is it possibl...
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167- The Art of Process Design - A live conversation (Part 1) from 2022-06-01T00:00
Process is a personal thing. We all have different ways of preparing workshops and designing their structure and flow.
When process design is so specific to each facilitator, is it possibl...
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166 - Scribing: A Social Art and Facilitative Practice with Kelvy Bird (Part 2) from 2022-05-26T00:00
Kelvy has been a scribe for almost 30 years - there are few people better placed to share insights and reflections on the discipline and its impact on collaborative work.
Scribing is far m...
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166 - Scribing: A Social Art and Facilitative Practice with Kelvy Bird (Part 1) from 2022-05-25T00:00
Kelvy has been a scribe for almost 30 years - there are few people better placed to share insights and reflections on the discipline & its impact on collaborative work.
Scribing is far...
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165 - How to Design and Facilitate Thriving Communities with Anamaria Dorgo (Part 2) from 2022-05-19T00:00
Creating, maintaining, and growing a community is not for the faint-hearted. It’s an ongoing process of trial and error that requires a huge amount of commitment.
But, if you can get it ri...
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165 - How to Design and Facilitate Thriving Communities with Anamaria Dorgo (Part 1) from 2022-05-18T00:00
Creating, maintaining, and growing a community is not for the faint-hearted. It’s an ongoing process of trial and error that requires a huge amount of commitment.
But, if you can get it ri...
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164 - Facilitating the Emergence of Possibilities&Breakthroughs with Kimberly Wiefling (Part 2) from 2022-05-12T00:00
We all hope to facilitate breakthroughs - those “a-ha” moments when participants have a lightbulb over their heads, ideas synthesise, and new ideas emerge.
But we can’t legislate and plan ...
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164 - Facilitating the Emergence of Possibilities&Breakthroughs with Kimberly Wiefling (Part 1) from 2022-05-11T00:00
We all hope to facilitate breakthroughs - those “a-ha” moments when participants have a lightbulb over their heads, ideas synthesise, and new ideas emerge.
But we can’t legislate and plan ...
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162 - Facilitating Self Development at Work with Prototype You with Kristiaan Hartmann and Wouter Smeets (Part 1) from 2022-04-27T00:00
Supporting employee self-development isn’t a sacrifice for organisations. In fact, it is often a precursor to the organisation’s own growth and progress.
In Kristiaan Hartman and Wouter Sm...
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156 - Adventure Education means Facilitating Vulnerability with Phil Brown (Part 1) from 2022-03-16T00:00
If you think of adventure education, do you imagine rock climbing, swinging from trees, and kayaking down flowing streams?
For Phil Brown, Lead Trainer at High 5 Adventure Learning Centre,...
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153 - Transforming HR with Design Thinking with Nicole Dessain (Part 2) from 2022-02-24T09:00
Nicole Dessain is a consultant, Design Thinker, and proud ‘recovering perfectionist’ - and sees those three labels as closely related.
Her work in HR consultancy is informed by her trainin...
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153 - Transforming HR with Design Thinking with Nicole Dessain (Part 1) from 2022-02-23T00:00
Nicole Dessain is a consultant, Design Thinker, and proud ‘recovering perfectionist’ - and sees those three labels as closely related.
Her work in HR consultancy is informed by her trainin...
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152 - Facilitating the ‘Board Game’ with Janek Panneitz (Part 2) from 2022-02-17T00:00
There’s no room for frivolities like board games in the boardroom… Right?
Not so, says Janek Panneitz! Janek is a facilitator, trainer, moderator, and a certified board game superfan and, ...
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152 - Facilitating the ‘Board Game’ with Janek Panneitz (Part 1) from 2022-02-16T00:00
There’s no room for frivolities like board games in the boardroom… Right?
Not so, says Janek Panneitz! Janek is a facilitator, trainer, moderator, and a certified board game superfan and,...
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151 - Building Culture by Bridging the Trust Gap with David Mead from 2022-02-09T00:00
David Mead is made for this podcast - and not because he's a speaker, consultant, and communicator...
David's commitment and insights into leadership have taken him across the wo...
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150 - Re-Thinking Facilitation: A Means of Corporate Therapy with Jordan Bower (Part 2) from 2022-02-03T00:00
Is ‘facilitation’ the wrong word for what we do with corporate clients? Jordan Bower thinks it might be and proposes a new terminology to better suit our work…
Welcome to ‘corporate therap...
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150 - Re-Thinking Facilitation: A Means of Corporate Therapy with Jordan Bower (Part 1) from 2022-02-02T00:00
Is ‘facilitation’ the wrong word for what we do with corporate clients? Jordan Bower thinks it might be and proposes a new terminology to better suit our work…
Welcome to ‘corporate therap...
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149 - Holding space for those who hold space with Sharon Leigh (Part 2) from 2022-01-27T00:00
Some might not expect an introverted, neurodivergent woman like Sharon Leigh to ‘fit’ with facilitation. But anyone can access, practice, and succeed with it – as Sharon knows from personal expe...
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149 - Holding space for those who hold space with Sharon Leigh (Part 1) from 2022-01-26T00:00
Some might not expect an introverted, neurodivergent woman like Sharon Leigh to ‘fit’ with facilitation. But anyone can access, practice, and succeed with it – as Sharon knows from personal expe...
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148 - Using facilitation to give a voice to the voiceless with Manal Sayid (Part 2) from 2022-01-20T00:00
Manal Sayid is a fascinating person, speaker, and podcast guest - as she proves in this episode of workshops.work! Her experience ranges from the suicide prevention helpline of Distress Centres ...
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148 - Using facilitation to give a voice to the voiceless with Manal Sayid (Part 1) from 2022-01-19T00:00
Manal Sayid is a fascinating person, speaker, and podcast guest - as she proves in this episode of workshops.work! Her experience ranges from the suicide prevention helpline of Distress Centres ...
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147 - How to live a facilitative life with Stephen Berkeley from 2022-01-12T00:00
Being a facilitator is one thing, but Stephen Berkeley is on a mission to live a facilitative life.
This idea is incredibly intriguing - can it be done? How do we walk the line between sta...
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146 - How to make a workshop fail? Insights from 20 podcast guests from 2022-01-05T00:00
There are a few questions that come up every week - no matter who the guest is, no matter what our topic of conversation is.
One of them - and possibly my favourite - is:
“What ma...
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145 - Asking better questions to get cozy, juicy or real with each other with Jed&Sophia Lazar from 2021-12-29T00:00
A game is just a game - silly, playful, and only useful for breaking the ice, right?
Not if you ask Sophia and Jed Lazar, who have designed a card game that helps participants share, liste...
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144 - From out of the box to unboxing: A mindset shift to facilitation and life with Jimbo Clark (Part 1) from 2021-12-22T00:00
A nickname like “The Box Guy” belies Jimbo Clark’s effervescence and brilliance. In fact, Jimbo has spent many years trying to help us open the boxes we put ourselves in (or put over ourselves)....
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144 - From out of the box to unboxing: A mindset shift to facilitation and life with Jimbo Clark (Part 1) from 2021-12-22T00:00
A nickname like “The Box Guy” belies Jimbo Clark’s effervescence and brilliance. In fact, Jimbo has spent many years trying to help us open the boxes we put ourselves in (or put over ourselves)....
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143 - Why Facilitators are Crisis Managers with Thomas Lahnthaler (Part 1) from 2021-12-15T00:00
From reframing problems to taking tips from MacGyver, Thomas Lahnthaler is full of great advice for anyone who has to manage a crisis.
And as our conversation in this episode revealed, fac...
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143 - Why Facilitators are Crisis Managers with Thomas Lahnthaler (Part 1) from 2021-12-15T00:00
From reframing problems to taking tips from MacGyver, Thomas Lahnthaler is full of great advice for anyone who has to manage a crisis.
And as our conversation in this episode revealed, fac...
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142 - Changing a Meeting Culture from Within, at Scale with Sonja Hanau from 2021-12-08T00:00
Sonja Hanau is the person 99% of working professionals have prayed for at one point or another.
For Sonja is a Meeting Designer. In fact, Sonja is one of the best Meeting Designers you’ll ...
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141 - Insights about Facilitation: Conversations at the NDB Festival (Part 3) from 2021-12-03T00:00
Nov 19, 2021 marked the second NDB Festival, so I elected to do something unique and, admittedly, daunting: a live podcast recording with anyone who wished to participate. No agenda, no plans, n...
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141 - Insights about Facilitation: Conversations at the NDB Festival (Part 2) from 2021-12-02T00:00
Friday 19 November, 2021 marked the second NeverDoneBefore Festival.
In keeping with the spirit of the day, I elected to do something unique and, admittedly, daunting: a live podcast recor...
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141 - Insights about Facilitation: Conversations at the NDB Festival (Part 1) from 2021-12-01T00:00
Friday 19 November, 2021 marked the second NeverDoneBefore Festival.
In keeping with the spirit of the day, I elected to do something unique and, admittedly, daunting: a live podcast recor...
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140 - How to use Applied Improv to Enliven your Workshops with Shannon Hughes (Part 1) from 2021-11-24T00:00
Using “yes-and”, following the flow, and focusing on the process as much as the outcomes… Is this improv or facilitation?
The two share a lot in common! When we combine them, we can create...
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140 - How to use Applied Improv to Enliven your Workshops with Shannon Hughes (Part 1) from 2021-11-24T00:00
Using “yes-and”, following the flow, and focusing on the process as much as the outcomes… Is this improv or facilitation?
The two share a lot in common! When we combine them, we can create...
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139 - Breaking (Project) Management and Decision Routines with Karen Schmidt from 2021-11-17T00:00
The building blocks of facilitation can be considered as quite practical, tangible things: workshops, agendas, exercises, timing, and tools. Underpinning these facilitation essentials, though, a...
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138 - Facilitating Authentic Relations with Peter Munthe-Kaas from 2021-11-10T06:00
Urban planning is the discipline of creating shared, public spaces. It could easily be mistaken for large-scale facilitation by design!
Peter Munthe-Kaas can speak confidently for both dis...
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137 - Creating space for connection with Jonathan Hefter (Part 1) from 2021-11-03T00:00
Circles are everywhere: in nature, our biology, our art. There’s something sacred and special about them. So what happens when we introduce them to our facilitation practice?
This week, I ...
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137 - Creating space for connection with Jonathan Hefter (Part 1) from 2021-11-03T00:00
Circles are everywhere: in nature, our biology, our art. There’s something sacred and special about them. So what happens when we introduce them to our facilitation practice?
This week, I ...
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136 - Facilitating with and without Lego Serious Play with Sean Blair (Part 1) from 2021-10-27T00:00
LEGO Serious Play is an increasingly popular method of facilitation and one that we’ve explored previously on the podcast, but I wanted to dive into a little deeper and with a slightly more c...
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136 - Facilitating with and without Lego Serious Play with Sean Blair (Part 1) from 2021-10-27T00:00
LEGO Serious Play is an increasingly popular method of facilitation and one that we’ve explored previously on the podcast, but I wanted to dive into a little deeper and with a slightly more c...
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135 - A journey from Architecture to Facilitation with Florencia Ortelli from 2021-10-20T00:00
When it comes to workshops, we often talk about “making space” for people to express themselves creatively and authentically.
It’s a metaphorical phrase, but there is a lot to be f...
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134 - Unlocking creative potential through collective drawing with Chris Bent from 2021-10-13T00:00
Chris Bent isn’t creative, he’ll happily admit.
Chris Bent is also the founder of Piccles, one of the best creative platforms I’ve seen.
If that doesn’t quite add up for you, the ans...
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133 Part 3 - The High Art of Facilitation with Meg Bolger from 2021-10-08T00:00
Meg Bolger is a perfect example of facilitation for good, founding and leading multiple organisations focused on promoting DEI and LGBTQ justice, awareness, and allyship.
On top of their i...
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133 Part 2 - The How of Facilitation with Meg Bolger from 2021-10-07T00:00
Meg Bolger is a perfect example of facilitation for good, founding and leading multiple organisations focused on promoting DEI and LGBTQ justice, awareness, and allyship.
On top of th...
133 - The conversation I wish I heard when I started facilitating with Meg Bolger (Part 1) from 2021-10-06T00:00
Meg Bolger is a perfect example of facilitation for good, founding and leading multiple organisations focused on promoting DEI and LGBTQ justice, awareness, and allyship.
On top of their i...
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132 - Can we automate the facilitation of deep conversations? with Edric Subur from 2021-09-29T00:00
It was in the arid air of Burning Man that Edric Subur first felt Warmspace flicker in his mind and heart.
Connecting deeply, sharing widely, and being radically – Edric wanted to capture ...
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131 - Facilitating Joy in Public with Jacques Martiquet, the Party Scientist from 2021-09-22T00:00
Fun, connection, acting without inhibition – it’s all part of the joy of being human… and it’s the subject of Jacques Martiquet’s extensive research.
I should stress, Jacques goes by anoth...
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130 - Belonging in the Virtual Space with Jahnvi Singh from 2021-09-15T00:00
Belonging is a complex topic at the best of times, but in an age of digital meetings, remote work, and physical distance, many more layers have been added.
As facilitators, our job is not ...
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129 - From vision to reality: The story behind the NeverDoneBefore facilitation festival with Myriam Hadnes from 2021-09-08T00:00
The microphone has turned, the seats have switched, and I am being interviewed on my own show!
This week, Michelle Howard takes up the mantle of workshops.work host and invites me to expl...
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128 - What games can teach us about designing better workshops with Lily Higgins from 2021-09-01T00:00
Games are fun, silly, not based in reality…
We can take our serious selves into games and embrace playfulness, but it’s a lot harder to take the playfulness back with us as we re...
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127 - How to set up a successful co-facilitation process with Shoba Chandran from 2021-08-25T00:00
Co-facilitation feels like a wonderful, secret club.
Those who’ve experienced successful co-facilitation understand the impact it has on outcomes, as well as the experience of participants...
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126 - The Paradox of Psychological Safety with Gustavo Razzetti from 2021-08-18T00:00
Psychological safety is a bastion of facilitation, collaboration, and connection.
But has it reached a tipping point?
As the phrase permeates more corners of consultancy and the eche...
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125 - A new way of thinking about hybrid work with Cliff Pollan from 2021-08-11T00:00
After a year and a half of panicked, rushed remote and hybrid work, we are long overdue a calm presence - a voice of reason. Someone to steer the ship and settle the stormy waters, to help us se...
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124 - Human activation as the foundation of facilitation with Patrick Cowden from 2021-08-04T00:00
123 episodes later, we return to where it all started.
In truth, I believe I could have recorded 124 episodes exclusively with Patrick Cowden and we’d still have another 124 episodes’ wort...
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123 - The Inner Work of Facilitation - with Quanita Roberson from 2021-07-28T00:00
It took me nearly one year to arrange this interview, due to just how popular, committed, and focused Quanita Roberson is.
But I would have happily waited a decade for the value, kindness,...
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122 - How to create magical human moments (online) - with Jan Keck from 2021-07-21T00:00
Magic isn’t stuck in children’s books and feel-good films, it’s here. It’s among us. It’s in our vulnerability, our connection, and our understanding.
The moment I met Jan Keck, I knew I w...
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121 - Why mental fitness matters and how to improve yours - with Jodie Rogers from 2021-07-14T00:00
We are experiencing a long-overdue explosion of information and awareness about mental health. Just as we’ve steadily developed great interventions for our physical ills, we are now developing s...
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121 - Why mental fitness matters and how to improve yours - with Jodie Rogers from 2021-07-14T00:00
We are experiencing a long-overdue explosion of information and awareness about mental health. Just as we’ve steadily developed great interventions for our physical ills, we are now developing s...
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120 - Facilitating Group Dynamics - with Grace Lau from 2021-07-07T00:00
Group dynamics are always present in the room, whether or not we choose to acknowledge them.
What can we do to understand and manage group dynamics - and our place within them?
As an...
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119 - Using the power of analogies for your facilitation with Michel Barrett from 2021-06-30T00:00
Analogies are a powerful tool - they’re communication kaleidoscopes, reflecting and refracting our ideas into a multitude of new, eye-catching alternatives.
It’s a tool that we use regu...
118 - Unusual facilitation: Podcasting, theatre and audio-only platforms with Pilar Orti from 2021-06-23T00:00
Facilitation is a creative practice, but I am constantly surprised by the intersections people find and create between it and other creative practices.
How about theatre? Podcasting? Audio...
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117 - How to use systems thinking in facilitation with Johanna Tysk from 2021-06-16T00:00
It’s not uncommon for guests on workshops work to introduce new and unique angles to the practice of facilitation, but I should have known things would jump to another level when I invited trans...
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116 - Process literacy: The new collaborative team skill with Ewen le Borgne from 2021-06-09T00:00
Teams are embracing hybrid work - which means more asynchronous work, variable communication signals from person to person, and an opportunity for widespread adoption of facilitative skills.
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115 - How to facilitate a winning culture with Viren Thakrar from 2021-06-02T00:00
Every organisation has a culture. Whether its leaders pay attention to it or not. Leaving culture untouched is leaving money on the table and employee satisfaction up to chance.
That’s why...
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114 - How to facilitate alignment with Lindsay Uittenbogaard from 2021-05-26T05:00
Alignment would be one of the first words added to the facilitation dictionary, but the concept can sometimes suffer with a reputation as a ‘washy’ or ‘soft’ topic.
Lindsay Uittenbogaard i...
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113 - Taoism, agility, and the essence of facilitation with Dov Tsal from 2021-05-19T00:00
Facilitation has many intersections, but one I didn’t ever think I would discuss on this podcast is that of Taoism and facilitation.
Yet, here we are, and it has proven to be an eye-openin...
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112 - Demystifying Visual Collaboration with Ole Qvist-Sørensen from 2021-05-12T06:00
I have always said that words make worlds, but language is just one lens through which we can see and decipher our experiences.
What of drawings? Colours? Icons?
Expanding our vocabu...
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111 - More Space for Innovation through Facilitation with Dan Levy from 2021-05-11T11:00
Facilitating innovation in times of need, the world of ‘futuring’, examining greys in a black and white world - these are big topics, but Dan Levy explores them with guile and clarity. Listen
110 - Facilitation as a Service - with Aleksandra Potrykus-Majewska from 2021-04-28T06:00
Aleksandra (Ola) Potrykus-Majewska knows the struggle of finding a great external facilitator when stuck in a corporate procurement system. But she also knows what it’s like to set out and find ...
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109 - How to talk about soft topics with rational people with Marloes Sikkema from 2021-04-21T06:00
Purpose is becoming an increasingly important part of corporate culture, but how there are still misconceptions and doubts about its value - especially in ‘rational’ fields, such as engineering....
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108 - From frustrated leader to impactful facilitator with Bjarne Holmes from 2021-04-14T06:00
What can educators and facilitators learn from each other to benefit their practice? And where do the two crossover?
These are wide-ranging questions and the kind that open up rabbit hole...
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107 - Unleash your facilitation superpowers with Jacob Chromy from 2021-04-07T06:00
We use our facilitation skills in our work, but these are universally applicable skills. Negotiating with a toddler, hosting parties, working out which takeout to order!
Join me and Jacob ...
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106 - From offline to online to hybrid meetings with Joseph Allen from 2021-03-31T06:00
This week, I am joined by Joe Allen – a meeting scientist, professor of Industrial Organisational Psychology, Director at the Center for Meeting Effectiveness, and co-author of Suddenly Virtu...
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105 - Facilitation beyond the Toolbox with Nadia von Holzen from 2021-03-24T06:00
Structure contains us and sets boundaries, it can’t make space for freedom or creativity… can it?
Liberating Structures says otherwise - and Nadia von Holzen joins me in this episode to di...
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104 - How to use Integral Facilitation Quadrants to design successful workshops with Gabriel Couture from 2021-03-17T06:00
Empathy is a cornerstone of facilitation. Without it, we are only thrusting ideas and intentions on people. With it, we meet people where they are and work with them, as they need us too, to cre...
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103 - Facilitation and Jazz Music with Rich Goidel from 2021-03-10T06:00
This toe-tapping, energy-flowing, jam of a workshops work episode explores the similarities (and differences) between jazz music, strategy, and facilitation - with fabled facilitator Rich Goidel...
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102 - The intentional facilitator: How to turn passion into business with Robin Muretisch from 2021-03-03T06:00
Forging your own career or business in facilitation isn’t easy. As so many of the guests on this podcast can attest to, it’s often the case that we don’t know that we are facilitators until some...
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101 - How to facilitate process improvement - human-centred and data-driven with Mark Whittaker from 2021-02-24T06:00
How much of your workday do you really pay attention to?
From where you sit to how often you get distracted and what happens when you come back from a break, all of these moments that make...
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100 - The nuggets that make workshops work - with 14 listeners from 2021-02-17T06:00
100 episodes. (More than) 100 guests. Thousands of listeners. You, here, reading this and listening to this landmark episode.
To mark this milestone, I turned the microphone towards the wo...
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099 - How to Grow Your Meeting Culture with Elise Keith from 2021-02-10T07:00
Bad meetings are all too common, but they are merely the product of every bad meeting that has come before them.
So, how do we break the cycle of unstructured, imbalanced, aimless meetings...
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098 - Agile for Everyone with Judith Mills from 2021-02-03T06:00
Agile can be hugely effective in many environments, but from the outside, it can be daunting. The language, its origins in tech, and its overzealous cheerleaders can make it seem inaccessible an...
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097 - Keeping facilitation human with Paul Nunesdea from 2021-01-27T07:00
As a former Board member of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and co-Founder of the Digital Collaboration Academy, there are few people better placed to discuss where o...
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096 - The interconnections between leadership and facilitation with John Varney from 2021-01-20T07:00
Exploring the overlap between facilitation and leadership was an exciting proposition to me, but I didn’t expect it to encompass everything from architecture and dance to mountaineering and coll...
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095 - Workshop Your Life with Gabrielle Santa-Donato from 2021-01-13T07:00
When Gabrielle Santa-Donato said, “we need to be intentional about this transition”, she wasn’t talking about virtual workshops or exploring a workshop challenge.
She was talking about ...
094 - How to build your confidence as a facilitator with Lauren Green from 2021-01-06T07:00
From exploring human graphs as a way of completing her homework in high school to flourishing as a multidisciplinary facilitator, dancer, and visual consultant, Lauren Green has had the kind of ...
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093 - Apply Design Thinking Principles to Unlock Potential with Jeroen Frumau from 2020-12-30T07:00
Jeroen Frumau has had a remarkable career – from working at the arrowhead of innovation in senior roles at Phillips Design to founding and co-founding multiple non-profits. The threads that stit...
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092 - A simple guide to engaged online meetings with Myriam Hadnes from 2020-12-23T02:00
Do you want to create meetings that participants actively engage with?
When online meetings fail, it’s almost always because the offline meetings were bad in the first place. If you want e...
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091 - Behind the standard template - How to create mind-blowing visual experiences with Shayne Smart from 2020-12-16T02:00
Do you want to get better at creating mind-blowing visual experiences for participants?
If so, you need to think about the story and method behind your canvas and its templates. A template...
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090 - Facilitation is like Gardening with Lee Kim from 2020-12-09T02:00
Facilitators want to inspire, motivate, and cultivate change and growth. However, facilitators cannot see into the future. No matter how hard we try, we cannot predict what will happen to the se...
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089 - Improv on Paper: Unleashing Creativity in the Cartoonist Way with Jonathan Plotkin and Pat Byrnes from 2020-12-02T02:00
How can you use the creativity of a daydream to solve a very real problem? Being able to access creative thought when necessary is a skill and it can be taught, much like any other discipline. <...
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088 - A (Virtual) Museum as a Workshop Space with Roumayne Schepers from 2020-11-25T02:00
What is art-based learning? And how can art-based learning workshops be successful virtually?
In this episode of workshops work, I find out how we can facilitate deep insights through art ...
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087 - Facilitation is about being in service with Jay Melone from 2020-11-18T02:00
Great facilitators aren't always subject matter experts. In fact, they may know very little about the workshop's topic. A successful facilitator acts in service of others and knows whe...
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086 - Foster Your Team’s Resilience Through Positivity with Lisette van de Sandt from 2020-11-11T02:00
To achieve great workshop collaboration, participants must find a way to work together. In times of change, positivity is often the magic ingredient that makes workshops work. However, being pos...
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Bonus Episode: Behind the Scenes of the NeverDoneBefore Facilitation Festival from 2020-11-09T07:00
Since March 2020, almost 100 facilitators have collaborated to bring to life a bold vision: A 24 hours long, global facilitation festival.
In this bonus episode, Michelle Howard, colla...
085 - Help Groups Work Better Together Online with Robert Skrobe from 2020-11-04T02:00
As the facilitator, it’s up to you to act as the group’s vehicle and guide them from one place to the next. You do this by providing the context that enables the group to work better together by...
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084 - Beyond Zoom: Behind the Scenes of Toasty, a new video conferencing tool with Kevon Cheung from 2020-10-28T02:00
Online meetings have risen in popularity since the COVID-19 outbreak, but they must cover more than ticking boxes from the agenda list. Creating stronger bonds and giving people that human conne...
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083 - Use analogue prompts for better online meetings with Jacinta Cubis from 2020-10-21T02:00
Sticky notes, tennis balls, and other objects can be used to create engaging and productive online meetings and workshops. How do I know this to be true?
Well, Jacinta Cubis, an incredible...
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082 - Facilitator, find your message. A visual workshop with Ingrid Lill from 2020-10-14T02:00
Are you still searching for your message? The terminology we use as facilitators may seem confusing for some of our clients. We must discover and use the right language that our audience underst...
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081 - What if more Facilitators Mastered the Art of DJing with Howard Gray from 2020-10-07T02:00
Creativity is the string that weaves through most (if not all) facets of life. As a facilitator, you design workshops that bring people together around a specific theme. If you think about it, w...
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080 - No more workshops without provocation with Diana Ying Liu and Kandis O’Brien from 2020-09-30T02:00
How can you, as a facilitator, create new and exciting possibilities for your workshop participants?
The answer lies in provoking your audience to listen to each other and feel heard. Prov...
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079 - The mindset and toolset to get your creativity rolling with Melissa Dinwiddie from 2020-09-23T02:00
Whether you’re hosting a physical or virtual meeting, the last thing you want to do is put the audience to sleep! If you want to keep people engaged during meetings, you’ve got to unleash your i...
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078 - Facilitating as an Avatar in the Virtual World with Tracy Cosgrove from 2020-09-16T02:00
We’ve reached a time when more people than ever are working remotely, and this includes facilitators.
Tracy Cosgrove, Founder of PTSM, is passionate about sharing knowledge and facilitatin...
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077 - Use your voice for better impact with Joep Hegger from 2020-09-09T02:00
We put so much emphasis on how we look and how we use body language to communicate with our audience that we often neglect to consider our voices. It’s not just about what we say, it’s how we sa...
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076 - Facilitating powerful personal transformations with Júlio Maria Muhorro from 2020-09-02T02:00
Knowledge is one of the universal currencies with which we trade – we enrich each other with the knowledge we share and facilitate, but what are the secrets of truly effective knowledge sharing?...
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075 - Behind the Scenes of Facilitating the MURAL Backstage Pass with Hailey Temple from 2020-08-26T02:00
Throughout lockdown, I and many other facilitators, have loved watching and participating in Backstage Pass – the virtual workshops held by digital workspace platform, MURAL.
That meant th...
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074 - Rules of Talking: what we can learn from sports teams about communication with Tim Harkness from 2020-08-19T02:00
073 - Facilitating the Shift Towards a Pluralist Mindset with Hina Shahid from 2020-08-12T02:00
The world is changing and we are in a new moment of equality and anti-racism.
Strategic designer, and design educator by trade, Hina Shahid is at the forefront of this movement, through he...
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072 - An Introduction to Systemic Coaching and Facilitating Constellations with Laura Beckingham from 2020-08-05T02:00
Why would I invite “the exact opposite of an Executive Coach” and, as her clients describe her, “a witch” to speak on workshops work?
Because Laura Beckingham is a beautifully clear-minded...
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071 - Forum Theatre as a Facilitation Tool to Understand Human Interactions with Pernille Jacobsen from 2020-07-29T02:00
Forum Theatre is a unique approach to facilitation – creating space for change and reflection through creativity, play, and certainly some bravery (to begin with!)
Though the concept fasci...
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070 - The Art of Asking Questions with Elke Wiss from 2020-07-22T02:00
Questions are the lifeblood of communication. Without questions, we only have statements – cold, certain, absolute. If there is no room for curiosity, there is no room for growth or change.
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069 - Unflattening: An Attitude that will Expand Our Thinking with Nick Sousanis from 2020-07-15T02:00
workshops work is a podcast for facilitators, by a facilitator, about facilitation… so why have I invited Assistant Professor of Humanities and Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University ...
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068 - Use Your Facilitation Superpowers to become a Better Public Speaker with Sarah McVanel from 2020-07-08T02:00
Sarah McVanel is a recognition expert, a public speaker, a facilitator… and she thinks that we are “mutts”.
Put your pitchforks down, this is a good thing – and she explains herself beauti...
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067 - How Strengths-Based Facilitation can Improve the Results of your Workshop with Murray Guest from 2020-07-01T02:00
Everyone has their strengths, but not everyone gets to work in a way that is congruent with them. Well, that is unless they attend one of Murray Guest’s workshops.
Murray is a strengths-ba...
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066 - How to Guide Teams Through Conflictual Conversations with Marcus Crow from 2020-06-24T03:00
Teeth gnashing, fists waving, pulses racing… Conflict conjures up a certain image in many people’s minds.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
In fact, conflict can be one of the most...
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065 - How to stay on track while going off script with Rebecca Sutherns from 2020-06-17T02:00
A workshop that goes exactly to plan is a workshop that exists in our dreams.
The unexpected isn’t something we should be afraid of – fantastic ideas and outcomes can come from the moments...
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064 - How to Use Design Principles of Stories to Design Impactful Workshop Experiences with Bastian Ku?ntzel from 2020-06-10T02:00
Stories are far more than books we bury our noses in; they are the fabric of our culture and history, and the foundations of our progress. A world without stories is no world at all.
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063 - Let’s Bring Some Appreciative Inquiry To Your Workshops! with Laure Cohen van Delft from 2020-06-03T02:00
When I first read about AI and facilitation, I was worried the robots were coming for my job… but then I spoke with Laure Cohen van Delft and realised AI is a most welcome addition to our profes...
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062 - How to Find Out the Real Topic of Your Workshop with Britt Andreatta from 2020-05-27T02:00
Workshops are arranged for many different reasons, but so often there is something more beneath the surface – a deeper question that needs to be answered or a problem that the client cannot yet ...
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061 - What Facilitation Without Agenda Really Means and How to Make It Work with Nadja Petranovskaja from 2020-05-20T02:00
Imagine turning up to a workshop to find there is no agenda.
You haven’t walked into a nightmare – quite the opposite, in fact! No Agenda is an innovative approach that Nadja champions to ...
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060 - Finding Insights Through Play – A Focus on the Public Sector with Sara Huang from 2020-05-13T02:00
How can we facilitate meaningful change in a sector that is infamous for being rigid and slow-moving? (Though I am not sure I agree with that position!)
Sara Huang is the person to ask – s...
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059 - From Agile Coaching to Conscious Facilitation with Nisaar Jagroep from 2020-05-06T02:00
It is my pleasure to bring you this episode of Workshops Work, featuring Nisaar Jagroep. Nisaar is a master of Agile (though is too humble to call himself that!), and a leading proponent of Cons...
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058 - How to Master the Art of Facilitation and Hosting with Mary Alice Arthur from 2020-04-29T03:00
The Art of Hosting is a beautiful embodiment of many of the features of facilitation, combined with its own set of unique approaches and concepts. Mary Alice Arthur is an international steward o...
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057 - How to Use Elements of Video Game Design for your Workshop Design with Coline Pannier from 2020-04-22T02:00
We can find inspiration for our work as facilitators in the most surprising places. I would have said that game design is one of those surprising sources, but after speaking to Coline Pannier, t...
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056 - What Comes After the Prototype? with Douglas Ferguson from 2020-04-15T02:00
Prototyping is a mainstay of the tech world, but nothing exists in a vacuum anymore. Disciplines are increasingly cross-pollinating and useful strategies from disparate fields are finding new li...
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Bonus Episode: A Fishbowl Conversation with 73 Participants from 2020-04-09T07:00
As part of the Virtual Collaboration Campus 2020, we invited all participants to join an inclusive Fishbowl conversation (similar to the one for ...
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055 - Bringing Beauty into Workshops with Eike Niclas Schmidt from 2020-04-08T02:00
Beauty appears in different ways – with our intention or entirely without provocation – but how can we purposefully create beauty in our workshops, and what effect can it have on the outcomes of...
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054 - How to Promote Change with More Impact, Less Pain and Some Joy with Eugenio Moliní from 2020-04-01T02:00
As facilitators, change is our business, our livelihood, our North Star.
Eugenio Moliní has spent his life thinking about change. He’s chased it, avoided it, and now he is accepting it. Pe...
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053 - Four Perspectives on Facilitating Virtual Conversations from 2020-03-25T02:00
As facilitators, we are used to holding physical and mental space for groups – but what changes when we do this virtually and how can we facilitate effective collaboration in digital spaces?
052 - How to facilitate a transition from power hierarchy to purpose hierarchy - with Heleen Kuiper from 2020-03-18T02:00
Heleen Kuiper is an expert in the practice of holacracy – a system for shifting organisations and teams towards self-management, helping them to focus on purpose, responsibilities, and getting w...
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051 - How To Facilitate AgileHR - with Eoin Cannon from 2020-03-11T02:00
There is a fascinating intersection between Agile and facilitation.
With experience of integrating Agile into both marketing and HR teams, Eoin Cannon has a unique perspective on why certa...
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050 - What happens when you get 11 facilitators into an organised but unstructured group conversation? from 2020-03-04T02:00
50 episodes of Workshops Work – wow! What a joy every episode has been. Thank you for joining me on this journey – whether this is your first or fiftieth time listening.
To mark this miles...
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049 - Who is the Third Facilitator in the Room with SunShine Céline BenBelkacem from 2020-02-26T02:00
Can an object – a passive actor – be considered a facilitator?
That’s what Sunny BenBelkacem and I came to agree in this episode of Workshops Work. As a graphic recorder and communication ...
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048 - Workshop Facilitation Through The Lens Of Photography with Markus Püttmann from 2020-02-19T02:00
No two facilitators are the same in the way they run their workshops – or in who they are outside of being a facilitator. For Markus Püttmann, the interplay of his other interests and skills hav...
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047 - Outputs and Outcomes: The Two Sides of Workshop Results with Tim Ferguson from 2020-02-12T02:00
What does it really mean to have a successful workshop, meeting, or event?
The answer lies with the end result. What do people gain when they attend your workshop or event? Do they walk aw...
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046 - How to Facilitate Facilitators with Holger Nauheimer from 2020-02-05T02:00
Holger Nauheimer is one of the leading voices in change management and the founder of Berlin Change Days, a conference for facilitators and change makers – attracting 150 participants from all c...
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045 - How to create unpredictable workshop experiences (that predictably work) - with Leanne Hughes from 2020-01-29T07:00
On episode 045 I speak with Leanne Hughes, my "(nearly) facilitation twin", public speaker, trainer and, fellow podcast host Listen
044 - What is the role of facilitation in the future of HR - with Enrique Rubio from 2020-01-22T07:00
On episode 044 I speak with Enrique Rubio, founder of Hacking HR - the fastest growing online community of HR professionals.
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043 - Being over Doing: On the relevance of presence for facilitation with Michelle Howard from 2020-01-15T07:00
On episode 043 I speak with Michelle Howard, a specialist facilitator and MD of collaborations in Melbourne. She has written a book on the relevance of presence and has worked in the government...
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042 - How to use gamestorming to design better workshops - with Dave Mastronardi from 2020-01-08T07:00
On episode 042, I speak with Dave Mastronardi, the CEO of the Gamestorming group. Dave is a business-focused strategist and facilitator who sees busines...
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041 - Part 2: Presence, mindfulness and facilitation - with Amaranatho Robey from 2020-01-01T07:00
On episode 041, I speak with Amaranatho Robey, who was a Buddhist Monk for 15 years and now applies his learnings to coaching and facilitation. He has run over one hundred retreats, workshops, a...
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041 - Part 1: Learnings from a monk-life about facilitation - with Amaranatho Robey from 2019-12-31T07:00
On episode 041, I speak with Amaranatho Robey, who was a Buddhist Monk for 15 years and now applies his learnings to coaching and facilitation. He has run over one hundred retreats, workshops, a...
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040 - Part 2: What if we could not use sticky notes? - with Tamara Eberle from 2019-12-25T07:00
On episode 040, I speak with Tamara Eberle, trainer and facilitator of Design Charrettes and Organizational Game Designs. Our interview co...
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040 - Part 1: An introduction into serious games - with Tamara Eberle from 2019-12-24T07:00
This interview with Tamara Eberle, trainer and facilitator of Design Charrettes and Organizational Game Designs comes in two parts. In this first part, we speak about "serious games" a...
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039 - What if we stopped asking questions? - with Thomas Lahnthaler from 2019-12-18T07:00
On episode 039, I speak with Thomas Lahnthaler, co-founder of Groundwork, who worked in the field of conflict and crisis resolution and now applies his lea...
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038 - The silent power of visual facilitation - with Sam Bradd from 2019-12-11T07:00
On episode 038, I speak with Sam Bradd, graphic recorder and facilitator, change-maker and principal of Drawing Change. With his team, Sam contributes ...
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037 - How to facilitate group decisions in 4 easy steps - with Marjolijn de Graaf from 2019-12-04T07:00
Episode 037 is all about decision-making! On the show with me is Marjolijn de Graaf, decision designer and change architectSchool of Facilitation joins me for a conv...
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035 - How to make virtual workshops work - with Wayne Turmel from 2019-11-20T07:00
On episode 035, I speak to Wayne Turmel, expert of virtual facilitation and co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute about the strug...
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034 - All you need to know about Billboard Design Thinking - with Sean McGuire from 2019-11-13T07:00
On this episode, I speak with Sean McGuire, UX Architect with Microsoft in Vienna and co-inventor of the Billboard Design Thinking Method. Sean has started his career as a musician and board gam...
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033 - Part 2: How to hear the unsaid in the workshop space - with Oscar Trimboli from 2019-11-06T07:00
This is part two of a double episode on deep listening. I speak and listen to Oscar Trimboli, the author of "Deep Listening & Breakthroughs", professional speaker, leadership coach...
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033 - Part 1: Deep Listening - with Oscar Trimboli from 2019-11-05T07:00
This is part one of a two-part show with Oscar Trimboli, the author of "Deep Listening & Breakthroughs", professional speaker, leadership coach and facilitator.
In part one o...
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032 - Everything you need to know when planning workshops at scale - with Matthew Kelly from 2019-10-30T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Matthew Kelly from dotank - a business design agency that helps companies redesign their business and move their teams to action....
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031 - Learnings from facilitating co-creation in the woods - with Meghan Preiss from 2019-10-23T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Meghan Preiss, a designer, researcher and corporate facilitator for RKS Design. Meghan works for corporate clients on service and ...
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030 - The day after! How to effectively document to achieve results - with Mireille Beumer from 2019-10-16T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Mireille Beumer, an engineer by training and facilitator by passion and profession. In her different roles, Mireille facilitates the process of knowledge transfer betw...
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029 - Culture matters! How to apply Design Thinking across organisational cultures – with Bernhard Ferro from 2019-10-09T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Bernhard Ferro, a Senior Design Thinker and expert in user experience (UX) design with a background in behavioural sciences. We talk about Design Thinking and how its ...
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028 - How to supercharge your workshops and teams with Pam Hamilton from 2019-10-02T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Pam Hamilton, the author of “The Workshop Book”, facilitator and managing director of Paraffin. Pam is passionate about collective ...
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027 - Beyond the spreadsheet-brain: How to invoke participants'brains, hearts and bellies? - with Tenneson Woolf from 2019-09-25T07:00
On episode 027, I talk to Tenneson Woolf, a facilitator, workshop leader, teacher, blogger, and coach. Tenneson is committed to improving the quality of collaboration and imagination for groups,...
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026 - How to design meetings that we love to attend - with Gustavo Razzetti from 2019-09-18T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Gustavo Razzetti, a speaker, author, change facilitator and the founder of Liberationist. He is an active blogger and has writ...
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025 - How can we foster positivity in vulnerable contexts? - with Paulina Santos Alatorre from 2019-08-21T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Paulina Santos Alatorre, a psychologist, social worker, educator and conflict mediator. We talk on how we can foster positivity in workshops on painful topics and in v...
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024 - How to find comfort in uncertainty - with Grazyna Frackiewicz from 2019-08-14T07:00
In episode 024 of the workshops work Podcast, I talk to Grazyna Frackiewicz, a stand-up comedian, improv teacher and facilitator about hacks to overcome uncertainty. She will share what she has ...
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023 - Create FOMO for yourself: how to increase your workshop’s visibility - with May King Tsang from 2019-08-07T07:00
In this episode, I talk to May King Tsang, a social media FOMO ("fear of missing out") creator and live tweeter. May King joined a live event I organised a day before recording the int...
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022 - Conversations matter! How to design group conversations - with Daniel Stillman from 2019-07-31T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Daniel Stillman, a conversation designer and host of the podcast “The Conversation Factory”. We talk about the dif...
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021 - How to use Liberating Structures to translate the purpose into a process - with Max Brouwer from 2019-07-24T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Max Brouwer, a change-agent, scrum master and facilitator who also runs a solo consulting business max.co. The core of our conversation is the method of “Liberating St...
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020 - Create experiences for your audience to achieve results - with Rein Sevenstern from 2019-07-17T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Rein Sevenstern, a facilitator, coach and managing partner of Experiential Learning, a consulting firm that designs and ...
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019 - Workshop tactics: Can we design workshops without experience? - with Charles Burdett from 2019-07-10T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Charles Burdett, a UX Designer and the founder of Workshop Tactics, a card deck with exercises for workshop facilitators....
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018 - How to use scientific insights to design powerful workshops - with Myriam Hadnes from 2019-07-03T07:00
This is my first solo show and I speak about the science behind workshop design and facilitation. Namely, I share how I use evidence from behavioural economics to come up with ideas that will he...
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017 - Master the room! How to create engagement with your audience - with Derek Bruce from 2019-06-26T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Derek Bruce. He is a Leadership Development Director, and has worked in HR, Learning & Development and is also an expert keynote speaker and event moderator and ho...
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016: Why every facilitator should take improvisation theatre classes - with Tamar Broadbent from 2019-06-19T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Tamar Broadbent, a comedian, writer, improviser, award-winning musical songwriter, and: my first improvisation theatre tea...
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015 - How to use workshops as solution development tool - with Wouter Smeets from 2019-06-12T07:00
In episode 015, I talk to Wouter Smeets, a rocket scientist, former innovation manager and (co-) founder of two companies, Glimpse and youtuber. Lily...
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013 - How to make meetings better by using workshop techniques - with Alison Coward from 2019-05-29T07:00
In episode 013, I talk to Alison Coward, a founder, facilitator, book author and keynote speaker. Alison runs Bracket, a consulting agency that h...
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012 - Put your meetings on the wall: The power of visual facilitation - with Mathias Weitbrecht from 2019-05-22T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Mathias Weitbrecht, a visual facilitator and book author. When he started, 15 years ago, Mathias was one of the co-founders of visual facilitation in Germany. Mathias ...
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011 - How to design brainstorming sessions for huge groups - with Frans Scheepens from 2019-05-15T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Frans Scheepens, a brainstorm designer, entrepreneur and certified facilitator. We talk about conducting brainstorming sessions with very large groups as he has design...
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010 - Design and facilitate successful strategy workshops - with Dirk Verburg from 2019-05-08T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Dirk Verburg, a management consultant and executive coach who has the mission to help leaders and management teams to implement their business strategies, business pla...
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009 - Make conflict your ally in workshops - with Meg Mateer from 2019-05-01T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Megan Mateer, former corporate strategy consultant and now founder, facilitator, and changemaker. She founded Empatiko, a movement that aims to be a catalyst for human...
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008 - How to handle ineffective power differences in meetings - with Marcel van de Hoef from 2019-04-24T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Marcel van de Hoef, a journalist, coach, and podcaster. Marcel hosts The Meeting Strategist podcast and helps leaders t...
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007 - Mindset Management - with Jeremy Akers from 2019-04-17T00:00
In this episode, I talk to Jeremy Akers, an agnostic agile coach, trainer and public speaker. He accompanies businesses through their agile transformation with Wem...
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006 - What managers can learn from the clown - with Steph Kinsch from 2019-04-10T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Stephan Kinsch, a trained chartered accountant who turned into a TEDx speaker, successful executive coach, opened the circus Listen
005 - Artistic Intelligence: The new Design Thinking? with Romas Stukenberg from 2019-04-03T07:00
In this episode, I speak with Romas Stukenberg, a graduate of the prestigious THNK school for creative leadership and founder of Artistic Intelligen...
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004 - How to keep office politics out of the workshop space - with Mark Lambertz from 2019-03-27T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Mark Lambertz, senior agile coach, entrepreneur, and book author about “intelligent organizations". We talk about human dynamics in the workshop space and how to ...
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001 - Getting it right by starting it right. The power of connection - with Patrick Cowden from 2019-03-20T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Patrick Cowden, founder of Beyond Leadership, an agency that helps organizations to unleash their full potential. By introd...
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002 - How NLP can help you become a better facilitator - with Margreet Jacobs from 2019-03-20T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Margreet Jacobs, a master practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and speaker’s coach. We talk about the similarities between speaking in front of an audienc...
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003 - What facilitators can learn from story telling - with Christopher Marks from 2019-03-20T07:00
In this episode, I talk to Christopher Marks, a storyteller and branding specialist. We talk about the art of storytelling and what it taught him about workshop design and facilitation. We talk ...
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000 - Introduction of the workshops work podcast from 2019-03-14T00:00
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000 - Introduction of the workshops work podcast from 2019-03-14T00:00
Do your team workshops deliver the results you hope for? What if you could keep the momentum of your meetings and get everyone to follow-up even weeks later? It is my mission to help fellow faci...
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