“Suppose you're sitting next to someone at a dinner party who you've never met. How do you begin a really genuine conversation?

“I have two questions under those circumstances. The first is, well, tell me about your life. The other one is, I say it this way, I say sometimes when I'm trying to get to know somebody, I ask them, if you weren't doing what you're currently doing, what else would you be doing that made you really happy?

“Find out what their alternate universe is. That's always a really great conversation.”

From Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?, Oct 14, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clear-vivid-with-alan-alda/id1400082430?i=1000731766158&r=2000
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#facilitating #teaching #leadership #listening #knowing #friends #shy

💁♀️ "Who should we ask for help?"
🤷 "What do they want from us?""
🤦♂️ "Why do we need to collaborate again?"

Sounds familiar? The three core interaction modes (#Collaboration, #XaaS, #Facilitating) help frame expectations and purpose to guide teams and focus their interactions, saving time and avoiding frustrations.

Learn why open-ended collaboration just doesn't work in our 3h self-paced @TeamTopologies Distilled course 🎓 from Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton. https://bit.ly/3glIZxR

Speaking spontaneously: useful patterns:

1. What 2. So what 3. Now what

1. What if you could... 2. so that... 3. for example... 4. and that's not all...

Matt Abrams on the Harvard Business Review Podcast, September 26 2023

#facilitating #speaking #speech #presentation

Are you a #facilitator?
Is #facilitation part of your work?
Want to discuss and practice #facilitating?

I'm running the Facilitators Unconference next month.

Tickets via https://www.facilitators-unconference.com/

Price includes lunch, refreshments and access to the event.

Please share!

💁‍♀️ "Who should we ask for help?"
🤷 "What do they want from us?""
🤦‍♂️ "Why do we need to collaborate again?"

Sounds familiar? The three core interaction modes (#Collaboration, #XaaS, #Facilitating) help frame expectations and purpose to guide teams and focus their interactions, saving time and avoiding frustrations.

Learn why open-ended collaboration just doesn't work in our 3h self-paced @TeamTopologies Distilled course 🎓 from Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton. https://bit.ly/3glIZxR

We often use the words “#coaching,” “#mentoring,” “#teaching,” and “#facilitating” informally. We may say that we're being coached on how to become a better golfer, or that the person managing the agenda in a meeting is the meeting's facilitator. But once we investigate these practices, we discover that each has characteristics [...], and that our casual uses of those words were probably incorrect in their eyes.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/comparing-facilitation-coaching-mentoring-and-teaching

#Scrum #Agile #AgileCoaching #Agility #Agilität

#intro-post cause that’s a thing we do.

I like making things and thinking about things.

#NoDig #Gardening of #vegetables, #berries, and sturdy flowers.

plants & chickens in the yard for #canning #FoodPreservation #SeasonalCooking #seasonalEating

Always active #knitting & various #fiberArts projects in “I’ll get to that sometime”

I rock at #facilitating groups & #holisticLeadership
Currently job in #UnitarianUniversalist #relationalStewardship

#PreemptiveRadicalInclusion

#buoyant

#Facilitating #change: Four lessons from the devolution of the #British #roundabout

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