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The art of facilitation

Posted in 01 - Leadership & Management, Book Review, Personal Development on December 19th, 2009 by Paul McArdleBe the first to comment

I believe in synchronicity.  Yesterday, I experienced another small example:

1)  As noted recently, we’ve streamlined our working week to set aside Fridays for working ON the business.

2)  As part of Autopsy 2, we have all accepted personal responsibility for a range of tactically-focused projects designed to deliver “quick wins” within the scope of our current levels of competence.

3)  Hence, just yesterday (Friday) we had a number of meetings organised by a couple of different people as part of their role in gathering input & stimulating discussion in their areas of responsibility.

None of the meetings were outstanding, in terms of the input received, or outcomes generated.

So it was a very welcome point of input to open Scott Berkun’s book “Making things Happen” at the place I had last left off (p206), and read the following: read more »