I was suppose to spend the month of March this year on assignment in Mongolia, with the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO), as part of the MERIT (Mongolia: Enhancing Resource Management through Institutional Transformation) project. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, it never happened. Fortunately, though, the assignment turned into a virtual one, getting done in June and […]
Reflections on virtual co-facilitation of MERIT workshops in Mongolia
August 3, 2020 by · 2 Comments
Pass to Receive: Using sports as a metaphor in communication skills training
November 9, 2018 by · Leave a Comment
As a youth, I often played pick-up football games with my buds. We’d meet in the local park, pick teams, and away we’d go. When it was my turn to be quarterback, I loved calling a ‘long bomb’ passing play. When it went well, my pass was “right on the money”, and my friend caught […]
Collaboration insights gained through improv training with Dave Morris
April 15, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Since early March I’ve been attending a basic improvisation class, led by Dave Morris, here in Victoria. It just wrapped up. I’ve spent a lot of my life relying on my left brain. Spending 2 hours a week with 15 others, largely in right brain mode, was something I figured I could handle! Plus, intuitively I […]
e-Training Conflict Management skills: How to keep it interactive and experiential?
April 10, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
I got much of my classroom-based conflict management training through the Justice Institute of BC (JIBC), over a decade ago. I really enjoyed it. It was immediate, face-to-face, conversational, with lots of role-playing and discussion. Interactive and experiential. Since then, I, and many others, have wrestled with how to generate a similarly satisfying experience, online. […]
