Category: Resources

This is one of my favourite exercises to share at unconferences. Powerful Questions is a really useful skill for everyone in a creative, problem-solving organisation, from entry-level developers to...

You know the feeling: life would be so much smoother without these rough edges you bring to the work. Ah, if only you were perfect… yeah, THEN you’d really...

I've been looking for a Values exercise to share with you. I thought I'd found it with the Kouzes and Posner card deck... but was disappointed to find many...

"For organizations that need collaborative learning and breakthrough thinking in order to create a sustainable future, asking 'questions that matter' is a core process for value creation..." I am so...

In this blog post I offer some of the resources I often share with colleagues who start to facilitate Open Space events. I suggest to start with the book...

Today’s serendipitous Twitter find was MOOCs! It all started with a tweet from @mdclement, followed by my question: what is a MOOC? A few clicks later, I knew I’d...

My explanation of this strange but fun method for finding out what is on your bookshelf! In April 2009, software tester James Marcus Bach and his brother James set...

It's tricky, this being-human business, isn't it? Perhaps that's why, when we go to work, we try to create a haven from complexity, breathing a sigh of relief in...

Today is World Stoos Day, and I’m reading Twitter tag #stoos, while waiting for folks to return to the live broadcast after supper at @StoosConnect in Amsterdam. Live video...

My paper What is Co-Active Coaching?" covers the whole Co-Active model to show how its power comes from a synergy of some simple (but not easy!) principles and tools....

Curious about the AgileCoachCamp format? These days my most favourite events are all rather informal, along the lines of BarCamps; Open Space, and other UnConferences. They all use some...