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ASegar

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I design & facilitate #meetings that become what people want & need
🔸 Love to #facilitate #connection, #sing, #dance, & #meditate
🔸 Author of 3 books on meeting design
🔸 14 years of 800+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at https://conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 Brit living happily in #Vermont USA since 1978
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

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ernie, to random
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Stacked my laptop below my monitor, like a crazy person. Trying to decide if it’s a decent approach for my needs.

ASegar,
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@ernie I guess I'm crazy.

ASegar, to languagelearning
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Is it possible to learn from experience without external prompting or exercises? Yes—if you do the necessary reflection!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2014/10/sometimes-you-can-learn-from-experience

ASegar, to writing
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I and thou. Bloggers—all writers for that matter—let us know who you are. We want to know you.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2012/03/i-and-thou-blogging-as-if-a-person-was-actually-there

ASegar, to languagelearning
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One of the dangers of requiring measurable outcomes is that it restricts us to concentrate on what can be measured, not what's important

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2014/01/why-measurable-outcomes-arent-always-a-good-thing

ASegar, to random
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What's the best way to facilitate a community discussion? Here's my answer, illustrated by a meeting that I designed and facilitated in my hometown.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/12/facilitate-a-community-discussion

#facilitation #CommunityDiscussion #format #fishbowl #FishbowlSandwich #PairShare #assnchat

ASegar,
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@gdinwiddie I like your approach. On reflection, I prefer mine because it:

• avoids the facilitator keeping track of who's been up the longest;
• allows people to finish speaking before someone leaves; and
• covers times when the person who leaves might be someone who's said all they wanted to say, not necessarily the person who's been up longest.

IME it's rare for someone not to leave when they've spoken at length. I'm happy to nudge them!

I also use 5 chairs when working w/larger groups.

ASegar,
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@gdinwiddie Me too. It’s another example of the power of setting clear, reasonable group norms at the start.

ASegar, to blogging
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Don't give away control of your content. To avoid unpleasant surprises, post your original content on platforms you own and control!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2017/01/friends-dont-let-friends-give-away-their-content

ASegar, to skateboarding
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Are you old yet? I'm not. I agree with Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Yalow, who said: "As long as you're learning, you're not old."

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2020/10/are-you-old-yet

Swede1952, to ilaughed

Good morning. ⛈️⛈️⛈️

6 January 2024

Here we are in the solitude of Saturday morning before dawn. Sipping coffee and thinking about times in the past. It's natural this early to stifle a yawn. Remember the years gone by were a blast.

My father was a sailor and when I was a child, we were stationed at Yokosuka, Japan. We lived on the Naval Base. Near the sea wall, there was a playground, and on the playground, there was an old, scraped sea plane that was mounted with a slide going out the back. We spent much time playing make believe in the old plane. I'm certain that old hulk is gone now because there were lots of sharp and rough edges. Today society would judge it as being too risky a place for children to play.

“You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.” - Rick Yancey, The Last Star

ASegar,
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@Swede1952 Remembering the "junk playgrounds" of my youth in Britain…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWpnkTKLp4&t=22s

ASegar, to mastodon
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It's January 1, 2024. Compare my semi-annual website page views for:

January 2022 - June 2023 (pre-reposting to Mastodon)

with

July - December 2023 (reposting to Mastodon).

Period page views
Jan - Jun 2022 2,192,848
Jul - Dec 2022 2,290,491
Jan - Jun 2023 2,573,393

Jul - Dec 2023 3,359,600

Reposting to Mastodon led to an immediate 30% increase in page views!

Yes, is the old Twitter: https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2023/11/mastodon-is-the-old-twitter/

ASegar, to random
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Read @mmasnick's end-of-2023 post on the ineffectiveness and self-sabotage of naive tech optimism.

"I recognize that part of seeing through to that kind of future, where innovation comes faster and more widely distributed than it would otherwise be, is to not fuck it up in the process."

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/29/new-years-message-moving-fast-and-breaking-things-is-the-opposite-of-tech-optimism/

ASegar, to random
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Effectively planning and managing a complicated life can be made easier and less stressful if you adopt approaches like Kanban and Getting Things Done.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2018/10/how-i-manage-my-life-with-kanban-and-getting-things-done

ASegar,
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@AAMfP The article notes that my approach is a mixture of the essence of Kanban & GTD. You can't see all the columns in the Trello screenshot, but it includes all the components you mention, some with slightly different names.

ASegar, to hiring
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Why should you hire curious people? Because the future of work belongs to the neo-generalist. And neo-generalists are intensely curious!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/leadership/2019/12/why-you-should-hire-curious-people

ASegar, to running
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What's the most important thing to wear for winter running? Here's my friend Lois's must-have choice for running safely on ice and snow.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/running/2020/01/most-important-wear-winter-running

ASegar, to random
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More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to

Read this excellent report by @Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/

ASegar, to random
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When's the right time to solve small problems? The right answer: "As soon as practically possible!" But our love of heroes gets in the way.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/leadership/2021/02/when-solve-small-problem

ASegar,
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@gdinwiddie Now that is a creative response I was not expecting. I purchased the book. Thank you!

ernie, to random
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OK, today’s @tedium is a holiday gift guide of sorts. But really it’s a year-in-review.

Senior baseball? TV carts? Floppy disk manufacturing? MTV News? Bryan Adams? Yeah, we covered those things.

Check it out:

https://tedium.co/2023/12/16/tedium-2023-holiday-gift-guide/

ASegar,
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@ernie @tedium I like these creative ideas, but I offer a word of caution on the 17" Powerbooks. I have two of them in my equipment stacks. I loved them but they no longer work.

Their original batteries swell alarmingly, but these can, at least, be easily replaced.

More seriously, the motherboards start working intermittently and then fry after a few years and they are almost impossible to repair and pretty difficult to replace (for $$$).

Be cautious about buying "tested" units.

ASegar, to random
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The story of how I developed my contract with myself and its importance to me. Though it isn't easy to do, I recommend you develop your own.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2023/12/my-contract

#newpost #LifeLessons #contracts #visualizations

ASegar, to marketing
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I am blessed with clients who are a joy to work with. That wasn't always true. Here's how I learned to attract great consulting clients.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/consulting-2/2022/08/attract-great-consulting-clients

ASegar, to random
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There's a crucial phase in Virginia Satir's model of change that people often overlook. Successful change requires integration and practice.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2021/05/successful-change-requires-integration-and-practice

#facilitation #FacilitatingChange #ChangeModels #integration #practice #VirginiaSatir

ASegar,
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@gdinwiddie I like your switch. Then I looked up how Satir described her states of change. She lists integration and practice as two separate stages:

"4. Integration: New learnings are integrated, and a new state of being evolves.

  1. Practice: The new state is strengthened by practicing the new learnings."
    —The Satir Model

I think she put them in this order because the integration of new learnings is the beginning of the end of the chaos. But we all agree that practice is essential.

ASegar,
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@gdinwiddie Yes, that's my experience too.

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