Inspired Learning and Leading
As Halloween approaches, marking the beginning of the holiday season, the added energy and excitement that it brings out in our students often translates into heightened stress and feelings of burnout in our staff. This is exactly the right moment […]
Last week I had the honor of hosting a retreat at the gorgeous Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma, California. This was an idea that my Spark Decks’ business partner, Oscar, and I had come up with last spring: Could we take […]
I saw a great bumper sticker the other day… “Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” I looked it up, and it is attributed to Hubert H. Humphrey, a mid-20th century American politician who passed […]
There are so many “difficult situations” that can crop up while you are facilitating, I plan to cover a number of them in this blog. To start it off here, I like to put these situations into two categories: those […]
FOF is a real thing. In fact, this week not one, but TWO of the most competent facilitators I know admitted that they get nervous prior to stepping in front of a group of people. I was floored at these […]