Recently I met with a client who have been through an extensive series of facilitated workshops over the past 6 months. It is clear that much good work has been done to bring together people from very different cultures under the one roof. I did sense, however, a palpable fatigue with terms familiar to the leaders and managers of business and government agencies such as KPI’s, KRA’s and Peak Performance. What do these terms mean anyway? From where I sit, they come from a worldview of command and control. So, as consultant I turned to ‘plain speak’. I avoided jargon …

Back from Byron Bay and you know what, I’m ready to be home. Here’s a random sample of snaps from our trip – many memories and the kids are pestering us to go back to the same place, at the same time next year. I think we’ll takem up on that offer! All taken with my trusty iphone. Geoff

I’m taking a break from blogging for around 4 weeks. See you again at the end of August 09! Geoff ps. You can still follow my 1 Photo per Day Project over here

A report that I proudly co-authored is now available! It tells a story about a project called Castlemaine 500 (which I also helped to orchestrate) … it’s successes, failures and the lessons learned. It is also an example of how an evaluation report can come alive with design, cartoons and stories! The Castlemaine 500 Performance Story Report was recently launched. You can watch interviews with participating households here. The best summary of the project is contained in the report though! If you want a hard copy of the report booklet email me. If you want to download it click here. …

Both Johnnie Moore and Chris Corrigan have written about Holding Questions – “What-the?” I hear you ask and why is holding questions relevant? Johnnie reflects on what he has learned from Chris had this to say here … “Chris would talk about “holding questions”. Again, my first reacting was: eh? It sounded a bit crazy to me, but just sensible enough to leave me with this puzzle, what would be good about that?. I was probably only just on the curious side of cynical. And again over time, I’ve started to get clearer, and more enthusiastic about the idea of …