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Farm Business Planning. What’s More Important – the Journey or the Destination?
This is a summary of my recent interview with ABC Radio, talking about my take on the Farm Business Resilience (FBR) program. The interviewer wanted my perspective on the Federal Government announcement about the Future Drought Fund and its plans to spend $20 million in the first year to help...
Three fast tips for online stakeholder engagement.
Today I want to give you my three fast tips for online stakeholder engagement. I've been doing lots of online stakeholder engagement work lately and I've learned some valuable things that I want to share with you now, specifically in regard to running online workshops. Tip 1 - Encourage responsibility...
Turning Points – a powerful connective and reflective process
How to use Turning Points for instructive insights I was first introduced to the Turning Points exercise by Bob Dick at an advanced facilitation workshop. In simple terms Turning Points can be used to improve trust within the team through reflection and safe disclosure. I’ve also used it as a...
How to help your clients. Shifting beyond business as usual to the ‘here and now.’
Top tips on how to help your clients in a changing environment Now more than ever it's important to be thinking about how to help your clients beyond the scope of your 'normal' work. As I’ve mentioned before, I occasionally ‘volunteer’ at my wife’s café, here in Perth. We’re thankful...
How to maintain the energy when facilitating a group online
The importance of maintaining energy when facilitating a group online 'What are your biggest challenges in facilitating a group online?' This was the focus of an impromptu session from a facilitation training workshop I held back in 2017. A key challenge raised by participants was, "How do we maintain the...
How to apply your facilitation skills online
Applying your facilitation experience to the online environment Get tips, tools and feedback on what works that you can easily adapt to online facilitation. Join me on Wednesday April 29th for brief online workshop designed to provide you with some 'grab and go' light-bulb moments. Outcomes: i. Have a suite...
Five quick tips for keeping teams engaged online
Here's some quick tips to help in keeping your teams to stay engaged online and working collaboratively. If your staff are working from home for the first time, it's probably going to require a bit of extra effort to make sure that this is a great experience for them. Keeping...
Client engagement has to continue – here’s how
Dealing with client engagement in changing circumstances I hope you’re fit, well and focused right now – that’s where I’m putting my energies, especially around client engagement. I’ll get straight to the point today to let you know of some strategies that you can easily use to continue to work...
Rule #53 Men, Don’t Dye your Hair
Well I reckon I’ve got that one covered… This is wonderful wisdom from Kitty Flanagan in her fantastic book, ‘488 Rules for Life’ (The Thankless Task of Being Correct.) Kitty reasons that we kind of look OK with grey anyway, so just go with it. There are three BIG reasons...
Why nurses ask good questions – and how you can too
At 4am on Monday morning I woke in severe pain – feeling like someone had hooked high powered jumper leads to my inner left thigh – not pretty! By daylight there was more trouble – a bright, red, burning rash spreading across my lower calf. Neither of these improved much...
How to grab your audience and keep them engaged
If public speaking is part of your role and you want some tips on how to grab your audience, then read on! For some of us, public speaking is a regular part of our roles and we’ve learnt to deal with it. For many of us, it’s an occasional demand...
How to Maintain your Motivation
Harnessing Motivation - Four not-so-conventional Motivational Strategies In a previous life I delivered a course called Effective Personal Leadership. Module Six focused on motivation. During one particular program, star participant, Jenny was a no-show. She rang a few days later and half-giggling, said, “Andrew, I just couldn’t be bothered!” We...
How a Solutions Focus has Changed the Way I Work
Last year I attended the Solutions Focus Coaching Training Programme run by Janine Waldman from the UK. I signed up because the programme promised a pragmatic approach to helping individuals and teams to achieve high performance. I flew from Perth to Melbourne to be there and wasn't disappointed. Solutions Focus...
What being vulnerable as a presenter really looks like
Being vulnerable as a presenter isn't easy, but it sure is effective. And if you have a gripping story to tell that brings your world into your audience's world, you're going to have an impact. You can read about the lead-in to this presentation and how it feels to be...
Nail your next presentation
What I learnt from spending almost $8,000 on a speakers boot-camp (and what it feels like to be naked in front of room full of strangers!) Have you also felt that you’d like to take your presentations to the next level? To walk away 100% confident that your message has...
Six Tips for Engaging Senior Managers
Simple strategies for engaging senior managers You've probably been engaging senior managers from a young age - you just may not have realised it at the time! Remember as a kid when there was something you really wanted? Something out of the ordinary? Like an overnight stay at a friend’s...
How using their language helps you to engage your target audience
How to better engage your target audience, no matter what medium you’re using to connect with them. The 'back story' Stick with me here, and look for the clues about how to engage your target audience. Leading up to Christmas, my wife Georgie, and I recognised that we really needed...
Staying focused in facilitation – yeah, right!
The importance of knowing what's going on around you as a facilitator Not long ago, I ran a ‘Facilitation Master Class’ for staff of a key client in Victoria. One of the topics was ‘trends and changes in facilitation.’ It was an interesting area for me to reflect on, thinking...