A couple of years ago I was working with a group of college students on a team building day. After undertaking an exercise – building a bridge from newspaper I think on this occasion – my role was to ask questions to help them understand what had happened, the impact it had on them and [...]
Over the past year I have been leading workshops on using social media for business with a focus on the main social networking sites and blogging. Every so often someone tells me that they cannot use social media because they are limited by their profession in terms of sensitivity or confidentiality of what they do. [...]
Look along the shelves in any bookshop and you are bound to find that someone has written a book on whatever you need help with. But if not a quick google search will take you to the website or blog that will. We have unprecidented access to the knowledge of experts.
Which is great – isn’t [...]
This post was inspired by the comments on the previous post.
Michelle mentioned that she asks “the silly question” because she is nosey. Those of us who know Michelle also know that her questions are anything but “silly” but to help her satisfy her curiosity.
And Julie’s comment highlights the chance to use questions to provoke creativity [...]
I’m sure it’s not just me who hears stories about people who have great ideas but don’t share them because they don’t think they are clever/special/senior/important enough for them to matter. Or because they are not perfect. Or because somebody you know does it so much better.
Imagine what could happen if we were all a wee [...]
