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What Anchors Your Career? 8 Ways We Connect to our Work
Identifying your career anchors will give you a language to articulate why you might be happy or unhappy in your workplace.
Facilitation Tools for Strategic Communications (WEBINAR)
During this 90 minute session held live on October 16, 2020, we practiced with virtual visual templates to support strategic communications.
A Visual Template for Remote Communications Planning (designed in Mural)
You don't have to be an expert in communications planning to remind your groups to take this key step in informing all who are impacted by the change.
Listening to Ourselves: Internal Listening and Mental Models (WEBINAR)
Listening to ourselves involves being present with ourselves and more aware of our needs, feelings, judgments, mental models and stories.
Lauren's Origin Story: Getting Started as a Visual Facilitator
Watch Lauren's origin story of discovering and creating a career in visual notetaking. Then read on to learn ways you might build your origin story today.
How to Host a Zoom Meeting that Gets Creative Results (PODCAST)
With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging on, we give some essential tips for facilitating collaborative creativity on Zoom.
Self-Coaching Activity: Self-Affirmations and Setting Boundaries with Others
When we become clearer about how we make decisions, a new need surfaces. The need to say no and set boundaries when something doesn't align with our model.
Taking Creative Risks as a Facilitator and Entrepreneur (PODCAST)
Lauren and I dive into laughing and winding conversation about getting into visual notetaking, plus starting and pivoting a visual facilitation business.
Starting a Bullet Journal: How to Task Mindfully
his blog will give you starting place tips; show you how to set up a daily log; and offer the ways I have customized my own journal for my needs.
Cultivating Resilience Through Play (WEBINAR)
Because we are mostly working from home, the thing many of us miss about the workplace is the random moments of connection.
5 Steps to Stay Focused When Teaching Online
The following is an excerpt from a Harvard Business Publishing article by Rae Ringel, Brian Tarallo, and Lauren Green.
Purposeful Play: 5 Favorite Virtual Energizers
Energizers are the glue that keeps your agenda together, especially virtually. They will help you build connection, test the technology, and more.
Self-Coaching Activity: A Dance Between Chaos and Order
Chaos and order are different states of being. We often feel safest in a state of order, but our world - especially right now - is neither predictable nor stable.
5 Facilitation Skills for Hosting a Smooth Virtual Meeting
A big part of making your meetings virtual is re-learning things that you already know in a new setting or environment. Here are five quick skills that ANYONE can do.
Self-Coaching Activity: Drawing Balance in Work and Life
Many of us are feeling the need to create balance in this time of chaos. In times like these, we have an opportunity to self-journey. One way is to use visual templates alongside journaling.
Facilitation Design for Whole Systems
A whole systems approach assumes that “the knowledge is the room”; participants already have everything they need in order to create a successful solution, idea or initiative.
Facilitation Tips from a Life on the Stage
Having come from the performing arts, I am fascinated by all the ways that performance shows up in my work as a facilitator. How is this room like a stage?
8 Tips for Emerging Facilitators
What I have learned in transitioning into the world of facilitation and organization development is that it is tough, especially for recent graduates or those early in their career.
7 Questions for Leaders Who Coach
Imagine an organization that encourages employees to make decisions based on their knowledge and insights they gather from peers. Many leaders fear this because they don't know what role to play in an organization that works like this.