Imagine a landscape. It has a forest on one side and a mountain range on the other. The two are separated by some water. The forest is made up of luscious shades of green, so dense it’s almost a jungle. This sea of green is punctuated by snaps of red,…
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Two Tunnels
Imagine your primary area of focus as a tunnel you’re digging. You may be digging into clay, sand, soil, or rock. If you have two areas of focus, you’ll have two tunnels. They may start far away or close together. Digging two tunnels simultaneously is almost definitely going to be…
Dress Up, Dress Down.
Since 2015 I’ve been a workshop facilitator and teacher serving all sorts of groups: teenagers, graduates, mid level managers, senior directors, and C-suite executives. Many of the larger sessions I’ve done have been 2 day bootcamps. Sometimes they’re for members of one company, other times they’re open to anyone who…
Game Time: History Repeating
Here’s a quick game to play every so often with friends old or new. Get each person to think of a time and place in history they’d be curious to live in. Ask them to describe what’s appealing about it, what they’d be doing, and how they’d be showing up…
Gateway Drugs
Let’s start at happy hour, the mixer, the meetup. You show up and contribute. Through a conversation, an idea, a question, a connection, an act of generosity. The happy hour may lead to a blog post, a workshop, or a chance to share some work in the wild. The post…
Stand Up if…
Connecting people isn’t so much of a problem anymore. The internet enables just about anyone to connect with anyone else. The problem now is more around finding, filtering, aligning. The problem appears it’s getting people to Stand Up If. Stand up if you want to work at a non profit….
Cross Training: The ChefTender and The KitBar
Last week I was facilitating an education program in Herndon, Virginia. Herndon is an interesting little place – sat right next to Washington Dulles Airport an hour drive from the city, it’s the DC home to perhaps a dozen large companies, yet is in a completely different state to DC…
The 2 Voices
One of the reasons podcasts have become so popular of late is the intimate connection between the listener and the voices they hear. Improvements in technology have helped too – a lot of people have marvelled at how Apple’s AirPods elevated their podcast listening experience (I’m still old school with…
How to start a podcast: a plan for success
This is the second episode in a serious of unplanned, non-sequential guides to podcasting. The first guide is here > This episode is all about planning (yes, the irony is not lost on me). Before we get into the good stuff, let’s talk a little about planning. Some things in…