by Mark Harling | May 30, 2024 | Blog
Creativity isn’t the world of Care Bears, it’s a world of resources. That’s what I thought to myself the other day in Italy, during CREA conference, after numerous enriching conversations with consultants and facilitators from all over the world....
by Mark Harling | May 22, 2024 | Blog
I recently ran a Lego® workshop where the participants were wearing slippers. They were wide awake, but they were simply already at the workshop, comfortably seated in their living room. For reasons of confidentiality, we decided to hold the workshop in the...
by Mark Harling | May 16, 2024 | Blog
Let’s play a little guessing game. In South Africa, there are several ways of crossing a junction, depending on the context: The classic, familiar context: all the lights work and you follow the traffic lights 🚥 The dangerous context: some of the traffic lights work,...
by Mark Harling | May 9, 2024 | Blog
Are we born with an affinity for management or is it a learnt skill set? In my years of practice , I’ve noticed how common it is for good technicians and non-managers be promoted within a company to take on a management role. Employees can find themselves in...
by Mark Harling | May 2, 2024 | Blog
I wonder: are performance indicators Pavlovian? I’ve been working for over twenty years in environments where people’s performance is monitored (some may say encouraged) by performance indicators. The famous KPIs. They come under multiple forms and acronyms...
