Exhausting Lessons in Communicating Across Barriers
Communicating in a foreign language is an enjoyable challenge, but it can be completely exhausting, which probably…
Whose Story Is It Anyway?
Inviting your stakeholders to write their own version of the story can be an essential component of success.
Oscar Winners, Net Zero and the Skills Gap
What are the skills of doing everything, everywhere, all at once to meet our Paris commitments?
Diving in to a collaboration mystery
How can organisations best avoid poor meetings and boring talkfests while finding ways to do productive work together?
Being comfortable with discomfort
While the group’s inherent desire was to help “fix” the situation, there was a growing recognition that allowing people…
Resetting your collaboration
The relationship element is harder to see and trickier to deal with, but much more likely to allow smooth sailing when…
What migraines taught me about overmanaging
I woke with a migraine, and dragged myself to the meeting feeling pretty terrible, so just had to sit there and let it…
Shared Direction- “What does good look like?”
It is essential to be clear on what success looks like to be confident that the solutions that emerge will be resilient…
Trusting the data in co-design
....they had been focused on the data, and rather than the less obvious contextual issues that were also critical to…
Take a different viewpoint
the importance of seeing more than one viewpoint when tackling a complex situation to build a clearer and more complete…