by Adriano Pianesi | Nov 11, 2020 | Leadership
Organizations and individuals like to stay in their comfort zones. But when you raise a difficult issue or surface a deep value conflict, you generate significant heat. When calling attention to tough questions or drawing people’s sense of responsibility...
by Adriano Pianesi | Nov 8, 2020 | dynamic group
Accepting responsibility is critical for adult learning. It is only when we acknowledge that changing our behavior will improve a situation that we take steps to alter it. So after you accept responsibility for a situation, the first questions to ask yourself are: How...
by Adriano Pianesi | Nov 5, 2020 | team builder
A letter I sent to my students some time ago touches on the important issue of frustration during group work. How can we learn to be more comfortable in the “groan zone”—that time in group work where the conversation seems all over the place? “…As we...
by Adriano Pianesi | Nov 2, 2020 | corporate retreat facilitation
From “Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done” by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan “In the typical corporate retreat facilitation of a business meeting, for example-the dialogue is constrained and politicized. Some people want to shade and...
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