• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    Edith Wharton

  • Education is the movement from darkness to light.
    Allan Bloom

  • The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
    Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
    Ben Sweetland

  • Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World
    Christopher Columbus

  • The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most
    Unknown

  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde

  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
    Carl Jung

  • What is to give light must endure burning.
    Dr Viktor Frankel

  • When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan

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Put Your Hand Up To Lead

You know the scenario...

Someone (possibly the boss) asks “Who wants to take the lead on this?” and then...

Crashing Silence! A wall of blank faces or to avoid no eye contact people develop a sudden urge to rummage through documents or an intense fascination with their fingernails OR
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Virtual Facilitation – Is this the way of the future?
Written by Rhonda Tranks   
Wednesday, 03 November 2010 13:31

And if it is the way of the future, how do you maximise the value and outcomes?

Have you found yourself increasingly utilising on-line technologies at work. Web-enabled ways of working have kind of crept up on us. Tele / video conferences, webinars, chat windows, forums and discussion groups, even shared document drafting capabilities now seem “business as usual”. Not to mention on-line education and training.

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Giving Consensus the Finger - How do you get a group to reach consensus …. ?
Written by Rhonda Tranks   
Monday, 25 May 2009 09:50

Firstly the group needs to agree on what’s meant by consensus. Then agreement needs to be reached on how consensus will be reached. Then you can actually start the process … sort of. Add a tight time-frame to the mix and some intransigent group members and things start to get interesting.

My facilitation toolkit includes a number of techniques (ranging from coloured cards or sticky dots to quite intense dialogue) to help groups reach consensus when making decisions.

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