Hat Tip to Garr Reynolds for this one … The Girl Effect website is all about a ‘movement’ on the rise. It starts with the premise that adolescent girls living in the developing world, if given the chance to participate in their own community, can make a difference … collectively (that’s many millions!) they can change the course of humanity. They have developed this wonderfully simple video to communicate their message. Best to watch it at their website here. Here’s the embedded version … Ok, so what? Here’s some questions that sprang to my mind … What if we used …

Ok, I got to the bottom of the illness … bacterial infection in the sinuses that needed a good dose of antibiotics. Now feeling human again and ‘just’ capable of posting this. Thanks to Kara (my Sister in law) for cheering me up with an “Elf-Me” video clip. My kids saw and made me do one of our own. So here’s a chance to introduce my family to you … Ingrid, Griffin, Lachlan, Hamish and me down at the barn! (Remember Ben Zander’s Rule #6 … don’t take yourself seriously) Send your own ElfYourself eCards

I’ll be taking a break (? how long) from this space whilst I recover from a mysterious illness. My first post when I return (hopefully after this weekend) will be about the virtues of feeling well. Geoff

Viv McWaters and I have created a brand new training program on how to make Insanely Great Slideshow Presentations. Insanely Great Slideshows View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Where did the training program come from? Over the past few years, I have had many discussions with Viv about the Powerpoint presentations that we observe in our facilitation work. Given our role is about group ‘process’, we are in a unique position to analyse the effectiveness of the presentations we see. Why? We do not suffer from the CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE that comes from working inside the ‘content’ of the …

Another great TEDcast! This time from Tim Brown of Ideo. You can watch the 25 minute presentation here … or here … Here’s my visual summary of the key messages. I find drawing pictures of the ‘key points’ a much more useful way of storing messages than by using words. Geoff