The Importance of a Chair

Did you ever stop to think that someone owns every chair? Let’s take an easy one. In my office, I have a chair…

How Twitter Changed My Professional Life

The Importance of Personal Learning Networks to Professional Sustainability

Growing Design Thinking

I like approaches that are simple. Portable. Reusable. As a team this year, we’ve had good results with a simple design thinking challenge to produce new learning experiences for our hybrid courses. Every time we engaged in this process, it produced one of the sweetest memories I can…

The P & L Statement

In the business world, the profit and loss or P & L statement is a significant measure of health and achievement. It’s a…

Cathedrals

I have been thinking a lot recently about cathedral building and the similarities I see with building a tribe. A cathedral, like a tribe, is a coming together place for like-minded people who believe in something bigger than themselves. A tribe, like a cathedral, provides safety in times of trouble and a…

The Invitation

Part 1: This project comes after many years of thinking (and barely working on) about a book project based on staff development…

FIND

On my team, we use a 4-step debrief protocol in order to process the events of the day, learn about each other, build emotional intelligence, increase…

The Power of Names

If I am in charge of an event, say a training, or as I prefer to call them, learning opportunities, I usually engineer the opening 20–30 minutes to create the maximal emotional resonance between myself and participants and between participants and each other. Here’s one way I work in the…