How do you get people to deliver high quality work and enjoy doing it?
Ahoy, business, not-for-profit, and organisational explorers, rebels and pirates! Welcome to the next Thrivable World Quest event! On Wednesday, June 18 we […]
Easing past social resistance when facilitating
Do I fit in? Every coaching client or participant wants to know: am I alone in this? Many times somewhere in a […]
Overcoming Practical resistance: What’s the plan?
The tool, the plan, the rules Every facilitator or speaker faces resistance. If you have done a good job of Painting a […]
A wedding Fairy tale
Burning Hands and the Fire Fairy I have told stories at three of my sibling’s weddings as a gift to the happy […]
How to avoid dropping the energy in the room
The Role of the MC This week I am preparing for the Professional Speaker’s Association of Southern Africa’s annual convention themed ‘Walking […]
Breaking through Personal Resistance
Call on the hero’s Character Once the audience catches on to a new idea, a new way of viewing a problem reframed […]
How to have a great chemistry session with a new coaching client
A Case study When a new client really loves me, it makes me sweat, my teeth chatter and I very nearly wet […]
Story walking
“We’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, yet we haven’t learned to walk […]
Five types of resistance and how to break through
Introduction: Paint a picture of the possibility What made James in ‘James and the Giant Peach’ climb inside a giant peach, befriend […]
Why a ‘just fine’ facilitation is not good enough – and how to get it unstuck
Stories teach us about five types of resistance that a storyteller must take the main character through in order for him or […]