by Mark Harling | Jan 18, 2021 | Blog
For the international Appreciate a Dragon Day, I’d like to introduce you to Tiny Dragon. If like him, • You haven’t created any resolutions for 2021, • You haven’t refreshed your 5 year vision, • You haven’t decided on your strategic axis for 2021, • You haven’t taken...
by Mark Harling | Jan 17, 2021 | Blog
When I come to visit your shopfloor, your factory, your production unit, my work as a consultant is about understanding your problems, difficulties, and challenges, and helping you to solve them. It isn’t at all an abstract exercise at all but grounded in the reality...
by Mark Harling | Jan 10, 2021 | Blog
The celebrations are over, the decorations have been put away, the house and the office seem a little drab now. Suddenly, you capture something in the corner of your eye. It’s a houseplant! Maybe with all the excitement, you’ve forgotten about them a little? January...
by Mark Harling | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog
When you don’t have you Lego Serious Play kit, you just draw the Lego! Some wonderful discussions with the student designers of the International Masters Program from L’École de design Nantes Atlantique. We worked on creative questions around finding your...
by Mark Harling | Oct 4, 2020 | Life Lab
LifeLab©, an outstanding in-school program, teaches youth to listen to self and others, taking responsibility for their actions, learning critical and creative thinking, social and emotional capabilities. The program develops essential self-management skills. It helps...
by Mark Harling | Sep 22, 2020 | Life Lab
As our students finished Term 3, we asked them to think back to the start of the year. One of our first lessons had them building a little turtle with their LifeLab© LEGO® kit by following the instructions that we had given to them. 7 months later, the students are...
by Mark Harling | Sep 7, 2020 | Life Lab
Angela Pezzano and I have been keeping busy in the LifeLab©, developing and delivering this program to Primary School aged children. It aims to build skills of resilience in children, help them to find strategies to solve the problems they have in their daily lives,...
by Angela Pezzano | Aug 11, 2020 | Life Lab
When we are parenting our children or educating our students, we greatly influence their development, sometimes consciously, sometimes involuntarily. We take on the role of people who know and think we know what to do with the methodology whereas if we put these...
by Mark Harling | Aug 4, 2020 | Life Lab
‘Glitches’ didn’t always exist in our vocabulary. As we’ve been working and learning remotely much more recently due to COVID-19, we’ve experienced these on our screens and seen our faces in frozen poses we’d rather forget. Do we perhaps notice the glitches with...
by Mark Harling | Jul 27, 2020 | Life Lab
As our students in Victoria province, Australia, experience some trepidation in returning to online learning, there is some encouragement in having received such positive feedback from parents, teachers and students saying LifeLab online is something they can look...
