Posts Tagged coping stances
Thank you Pyxis and Agile Tour Bordeaux
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on October 31st, 2009
I have just returned from a sponsored run of two Ship Of Fools organisational sculpting sessions. Thank you Agile Tour Bordeaux and Pyxis Paris. If it hadn’t been for you this would not have been possible.
For more information … Loot at Agile Tour Bordeaux!
Focus on hating overhead
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations, Puzzles and rumors on August 28th, 2009
The Hate
Lots of people have told me how they hate meetings, interruptions and administrative overhead at work. And on the internet you don’t really have to search long to find excellent blog articles like meetings and why I hate them. Not only the time and energy spent in meetings that do not seem to produce [...]
Original idea Ship of Fools
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on August 9th, 2009
Inspiration is not born in a vacuum; excellent ideas are seeded by other excellent ideas and fertilized by still more excellent ideas.
Controlled folly was originally re-designed from the balancing act, to support consultants coaching executive teams and managers. The demand was taken from the AIM UAW alliance executive coaching webpage, and from exchanges with Peter [...]
Coded for congruency in a meeting
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations on March 29th, 2007
A team keeps having seemingly endless discussions, or the team appears to be in chaos and does not seem to get out.
As a meeting moderator or facilitator, how can I discover what is going on?
And what can I do?
Lots of things may be causing it, so don’t judge too quickly! The field may [...]
How interactions and stances can affect a system?
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations on January 4th, 2007
With low self esteem we behave in blaming, placating, super-reasonable or irrelevant ways. When using open communication we’re congruent with our selves, and we can level out (the amplitude).
Communication and stances
The more we learn to (re)cognize stances and their finer shades, the better and faster we can level out our responses when, as we humans [...]
