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Are you ready to unlock your self-improvement potential? Consider mind mapping because mind mapping is a powerful tool for personal growth that can help you visualize your aspirations and break free from self-limiting beliefs. Okay, here's how - start by creating a mind map with your central goal in the middle. Then, branch out with ideas, challenges, and steps that are needed to achieve that goal for elevating your life and achieving self-improvement. This visual representation will clarify your thoughts and help keep you motivated. Challenge limiting beliefs towards personal growth by writing them down and questioning their validity. Replace any negative thoughts with positive affirmations. It's important to set small, achievable goals, and celebrate all self-improvement progress. Lastly, practice gratitude daily to enhance your perspective. Go forth with mind mapping to take the first step towards your transformation today!
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My spark bird was a Bufflehead duck seen in 1991 through the binoculars that were a childhood gift.I was walking with Caitlin across a bridge in Peterborough on a still and hot summer night and we…...
Mr Deeraj B Udyawar is a Financial and Business Leadership Coach, a seasoned entrepreneur, and a powerful motivational speaker with 30 years of corporate excellence, especially in sales, marketing, and the financial industry.
He has worked with some of India’s most respected brands — BPL Sanyo, Mahindra, AMP, ING Vysya, Tata AIG, Reliance, and Kotak — and wherever he went, success followed His achievements didn’t stop at boardrooms… They took him across the globe — Thailand, Malaysia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, France, Russia, and South Africa — proving that leadership has no borders.
As an entrepreneur, he is a partner at Macchhi, a popular seafood restaurant chain with five thriving outlets in Mangalore, and the founder of Development Solutions Mangalore (DSM) — a firm dedicated to financial planning and recruitment. He is also a National Trainer with JCI India, and proudly serves as the Zone Chairman of Zone 15 for JCOM, a leading Business Growth Organization. In recognition of his exceptional commitment, consistency, and dedication, Zone 15 has retained him to continue as Zone Chairman for 2026 too
To sharpen excellence even further, he has attended ABLE and Nalanda trainings — among the finest business leadership programs available in JCI India.
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Why do some problems have obvious solutions, while others seem impossible to untangle? In this video, we explore the Cynefin Framework, a powerful sense-making model that helps you understand different types of problems and choose the right approach for each one.
You’ll learn the five Cynefin domains—Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, and Disorder—and how they affect decision-making in leadership, business, technology, and everyday life. Through simple examples, we’ll show why applying the wrong solution can make things worse—and how Cynefin helps you respond with confidence, even in uncertainty.
Whether you’re a student, leader, or problem-solver, this video will help you move from confusion to clarity.
In the final part of our Fireside Chat, Thomas Herrmann shares his long-term vision: to bring life-nourishing, co-creative ways of working to everywhere on earth.
In a time when democratic values are under threat in many parts of the world, Thomas makes the case for starting at the grassroots, with inclusive, well-facilitated conversations that empower people to listen, engage, and lead. He and Michelle Cooper reflect on how Open Space Technology and can restore not just organizational effectiveness, but also trust, relational connection, and shared humanity.
¿Tu equipo de QA solo "recibe órdenes" o realmente participa en las decisiones? 👇
Si sientes que la informaciĂłn en tu empresa fluye en una sola direcciĂłn (de arriba hacia abajo) y que las decisiones importantes se toman en los pasillos o en el "enfriador de agua" sin consultar a quienes realmente hacen el trabajo, este video es para ti.
Ever wonder what happens when you design an organization around human potential instead of human gaps?
Come join Steven Ross LSSBB, PROSCI and I as we are continuing our organizational development series, and this week we’re diving into Appreciative Inquiry—one of the most powerful, uplifting, human-centered approaches you can bring into any organization.
At its core, Appreciative Inquiry is about placing people where they can succeed by tapping into what’s already working well for them. It’s about leaning into strengths, amplifying the positive core, and recognizing that you can literally build an entire organization—foundation to rooftop—on what people and our organization do best.
Many big-name companies have already experimented with this approach, and for good reason. When you build from strengths, you unlock momentum, confidence, and alignment that traditional problem-first models struggle to produce.
Der Autor des Klassikers 'Visualisieren Präsentieren Moderieren' ordnet in seinem neuen Facilitation Buch bewährte ModerationsDesigns nach der griffigen Strukturierung der 'SixSteps' und gibt so dem Moderator und Facilitator, pragmatische Moderationsmethoden und Kommunikationstechniken an die Hand, die in jedem Setting, ob Präsenz, Online oder Hybrid, unmittelbar nutzbar sind. Elf Themenskizzen illustrieren den Ablauf bewährter ModerationsDesigns, von Appreciative Inquiry bis Zukunftswerkstatt, kurz und knapp und bringen so das Wesentliche auf den Punkt. Entstanden ist ein griffiges Praxishandbuch für die professionelle Moderation von Workshops und Großgruppen. Die zahlreichen, exzellenten Illustrationen des Niederländer Henk Stolker, machen das Buch auch optisch zum Genuss. – moderatio books
Semanalmente estarei divulgando os trechos com os melhores trechos das entrevistas "Bate-bola" realizadas com convidados especiais para abordar diferentes temáticas. ✨
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This week I continue my series on Appreciate Inquiry with the Four I Model of Appreciative Inquiry. a practical way to create positive change in your organization
So, what’s the Four I Model all about? It’s a simple framework that helps teams move good ideas from the ground level all the way up to upper management and stakeholders.
How to apply complexity thinking in your organisation If we can’t reliably predict what will happen in our organisations, can’t control outcomes in any simple way, and can’t even agree on what’s true – how do we lead?
That’s the territory explored in this conversation with Dave Snowden. We move beyond tidy change models and into the realities of uncertainty, distributed knowledge and contested meaning. This episode challenges the instinct to simplify too quickly, offering a more grounded way to think about judgement, intervention and action in complex systems.
From Cynefin to estuarine mapping, the discussion examines what it really means to make sense of the present before attempting to shape the future — and why leadership in complexity is less about control and more about creating the conditions for coherence to emerge.
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đź’ĽDave Snowden Founder & Chief Science Officer, Cynefin Company https://thecynefin.co/
Dave Snowden is an internationally recognised thinker and practitioner in complexity science and sense-making, best known for developing the Cynefin framework. His work focuses on applying principles from the natural sciences to social and organisational systems, challenging linear approaches to strategy and decision-making. He is the founder of Cognitive Edge and The Cynefin Company, where he has led the development of practical methods and tools – including the SenseMaker® software suite – to help organisations navigate uncertainty and emergence.
After completing an MBA in Financial Management, Snowden moved into consultancy and software design, creating decision-support systems at Data Sciences, where he became General Manager and Corporate Business Development Manager. His Genus Programme, integrating JAD/RAD, object orientation and legacy management, played a central role in the company’s turnaround prior to its acquisition by IBM in 1997. Following the acquisition, his work became increasingly public and influential.
Since then, Snowden’s work has centred on sense-making, narrative methods, knowledge management and the practical application of complexity science to organisational life. He is widely regarded as a leading voice in helping leaders move beyond best practice and simplistic solutions, and towards approaches grounded in context, distributed cognition and adaptive action.
Garin is an award-winning Organisation Development and Design consultant with over 19 years’ experience. He has supported leading organisations in London, Asia Pacific, Middle East, India and Sydney in achieving their strategic objectives. He has experience working with companies of all different sizes and sectors including Legal & General, BNP Paribas and Citigroup. Garin is Chair of the CIPD Organisation Development and Design Group and Co-Chair of CIPD Culture and Transformation Senior Stakeholders Group. In these roles he delivers regular events that support the development of the OD&D and HR profession. Garin is a regular conference speaker and writer on Organization Development.
Garin is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and his qualifications include an MSc in Systemic Leadership and Organisational Development (Grade: Distinction) and a BA (Hons) in Business from Northumbria University.
Dani is an experienced people and organisational development professional having worked as Director of People at Investors in People and led multi-disciplinary business services functions including People and HR, governance and risk and technology in both the not-for-profit and public sectors. She has an MBA from Durham University and has completed the Organisation Development Practitioners Programme at Roffey Park.
Dani works with leaders to take a more people-centric approach to organisational effectiveness and growth delivering transformational people and organisational effectiveness programmes. She works with leaders to develop strategies and create the conditions, culture, structures, and processes that unleash the potential of their people to achieve great things. Dani is TrainingZone's OD Columnist. #complexity #change #emergence
It was the summer of 2020, and I was flying down the street on my Vespa 150cc, wind cutting through my T-shirt, flip-flops tapping the pedals, a small speed-racer helmet strapped to my head. I loved how powerful I felt riding that thing—unencumbered, fast, free. As I passed a father and his two daughters playing in their front yard, one of the little girls pointed and said, “Look, Daddy! A girl on that motorcycle!” In that moment, I felt like a superhero. Like maybe I was showing them what was possible. Minutes later, everything stopped. The Vespa wiped out. My body slammed into the pavement. My tibia fractured—a sixth-degree tibia plateau break that would change far more than my mobility. The pain was unbearable, but I didn’t cry. I made jokes. I waited. I couldn’t stand. All I could do was lie there on the concrete, in shock, waiting for the ambulance. I thought the Vespa would give me freedom. Instead, it confined me to a wheelchair for six months, followed by another eighteen months on crutches. Nearly five days a week, I was in physical therapy learning how to walk again. And in that wheelchair, I learned something I never expected. I wasn’t being seen. People were polite. Kind, even. But they didn’t look at me. They looked over me. Around me. As if I were furniture—present, but invisible. For someone who had always prided herself on being capable, independent, and self-sufficient—the builder, the provider, the one who made things happen—this was devastating. One moment still lingers. I was sitting outside a restaurant, staring at the front door, unable to open it. I had to wait until someone noticed me. I was humiliated. I hated asking for help. One of my closest friends used to call me Supergirl because I had a knit beanie with “SG” stitched on it. I can still hear her voice saying, “You don’t have to be a superhero every day.” At the time, I didn’t believe her. That realization came later, in the quiet. When I realized there was no one left to ask but God. I was the main provider for my family, lying in bed with my leg elevated, answering emails between pain medication and moments of fear—not because I lacked time off, but because I didn’t trust the world to keep spinning without me. Control had always been my safety net. Letting go felt like losing everything. But over time—nearly two years, in fact—something softened. I began asking different questions.What if this wasn’t just chaos?What if there was meaning here?What if this wasn’t the end—but a beginning? That’s when I remembered something David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise Banks and a leader I deeply admire, once taught me: adopt an abundant mindset. Not scarcity. Ask, “What can I learn right now?” instead of “What am I losing?” And that’s when I made a decision. If I was going to build again, it would be different not from force or fear, but from trust, listening, and abundance. That decision became Morris Hoeft Group. We build communities around brands by connecting head and heart. We create trust through human-centered design, Theory U practices, and deep listening. Our work is grounded in truly seeing people—because I know what it feels like to disappear in plain sight. This isn’t just branding. It’s meaning-making. Brands grow when trust is present. And trust is built through repeated positive experiences—through being seen. But this reckoning didn’t start with the Vespa. When I was sixteen, my dad—a WWII veteran—asked what I wanted for high school graduation. “A SAAB? A new car?” he offered. I chose college tuition. He looked at me, confused. “Why would you pick that? You’re just going to get married and have babies.” That moment stayed with me. I knew I wanted more. I didn’t want to be boxed into a role I hadn’t chosen. I wanted to learn, lead, and build. And I did. Throughout my career, I’ve mentored young people—formally and informally, through leadership programs, one-on-one conversations, and quiet coffees when someone needed guidance. I co-created a leadership initiative at Bethel University. I launched a podcast, Is That Cashmere?, to share the lessons I wish I’d known sooner. I tell these stories because leadership isn’t linear. It’s fractured. It breaks. And sometimes, it heals stronger in the broken places. My Vespa crash didn’t end my freedom. It redefined it. To every leader reading this: there is strength in surrender. There is purpose in your pause. And there is power in being truly seen.
Welcome to Reaching Minds: Thoughts for Your Life Journey.
In today’s episode, we explore the discipline and philosophy of Action Learning Questions - what they are, why they matter, and how this approach helps individuals and organisations navigate challenges that don’t have straightforward answers.
Action learning was originally shaped by Reg Revans and grew out of scientific inquiry, experimentation, and a willingness to work from a place of “not knowing”. Today, the methodology remains highly relevant. We live in a world saturated with quick fixes and instant expertise, yet many of the issues leaders face are not puzzles with predefined solutions. They are complex, multi-layered problems influenced by social, technical, economic and cultural realities.
To help us unpack this, I’m joined by Dr Richard Hale, co-founder of Know Will Do Action Learning Network and creator of the Action Learning Question approach. Richard has spent more than 25 years developing and implementing this methodology for governments, global organisations, and business schools. He has published widely in the fields of learning relationships, coaching, mentoring and organisational development, and brings a rich historical and practical perspective to this conversation.
Together, we look at:
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Why action learning is essential for tackling today’s intractable problems
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The difference between puzzles and problems
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The courage required to say “I don’t know” in professional settings
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The value of multiple truths and diverse perspectives
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The role of knowledge mapping (sky, ground, underground)
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How organisations such as the Civil Service have used Action Learning Questions to drive real change
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The personal capabilities people develop through this work, including deeper listening, reflective practice and working constructively with uncertainty
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Why sponsorship and alignment with real business challenges are vital for success
Richard also shares the evolution of the Postgraduate Certificate in Action Learning Facilitation, a unique qualification accredited through York St John University, and the importance of creating facilitators who can mobilise, catalyse and sustain learning across organisational systems.
This is a rich, reflective and practical conversation for anyone working in leadership, coaching, development, systems change or organisational transformation.
Discover how social prescribing in Wales tackles anxiety and loneliness by fostering friendship and community. Participants gain supervision and guidance, leading to personal growth and wider family impact. #SocialPrescribing #CommunitySupport #MentalHealth #Wales #Wellbeing — A LIVING LEGACY IN THE MAKING This episode stands on real work, real collaboration, and real delivery. Since November 2024, I’ve been deeply committed — alongside Caitlin Longden (documentary filmmaker & narrative storyteller), Lucy Rose Davies, and an extraordinary network of practitioners, community leaders, clinicians, academics, and creatives — to documenting, strengthening, and scaling nature-based health and social prescribing across Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. This is not theory.This is embodied, lived practice. With gratitude and respect, this work has been shaped through collaboration with: • Shôn Devey & Angie Darlington — West Wales Action for Mental Health• Michael Jonas — CAVS• Hannah Brigham, Becky Brandwood-Cormack, Alison Moore, Sam Frankie Evans — Coed Lleol / Small Woods• Matt Lister & Joe Monks — Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum• Emma Williams & Richard Rees-Khan — Celtic Deep• Sue Christopher & Travis Christopher — Wild Swim Wales• Leanne Bird — Blue Freedom / Kudu People• Dafydd Millns — Tonik Surf• James Moore & Wendy Dearing — University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Social Innovation & Management)• Gus Yeulet — sound & field recording• Andrew Dugmore — Reconnect in Nature, pioneer and inspiration• And many others working quietly, powerfully, and consistently across West Wales Together, we are co-creating documentary evidence of what already works — through the Pembrokeshire Outdoor Health Project https://www.pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk/projects/pembrokeshire-outdoor-health-project/ and the Cynefin Green Health Hub — aligning practice with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act and its Five Ways of Working: 🟢 Long-term🟢 Prevention🟢 Integration🟢 Collaboration🟢 Involvement This is Wales doing what Wales does best: leading with values. We are demonstrating — on the ground — how nature-based health improves:• mental wellbeing• emotional resilience• physical health• community cohesion• economic sustainability• and long-term public value This is the economic case and the moral case. Prevention saves money.Connection saves lives.Collaboration creates prosperity. This is why we are actively developing documentary films, research partnerships, and investment-ready narratives — including Awards for All, community funds, arts funding, and future cross-sector investment — to show what happens when we stop fragmenting care and start designing systems that actually work. To policymakers, funders, health boards, and government leaders — including Welsh Government, UK Government, Hywel Dda University Health Board, NHS Wales, and beyond: 👉 The pathway is already here.👉 The evidence is being gathered.👉 The people are ready. This is not a pilot phase — this is a paradigm shift already in motion. As we move into future storytelling — including Adventure Therapy and deep-dive conversations (because you cannot control the waves, but you can learn how to surf) — we invite those aligned with prevention, dignity, creativity, and long-term thinking to step forward. This is a call to co-create a healthier Wales:• more equal• more prosperous• more inclusive• culturally alive• rooted in land, language, and legacy Teamwork is dream work.This is the living legacy.The shift begins beneath our feet. 🌿 Join the conversation. Be part of the work.
In 2025 I reviewed many new books and created several accompanying quick reference cards. The running total now stands at 381 book reviews and 148 QRCs – and counting. In addition to these reviews, I am one of the six judges for the Management Book of the Year 2025 competition in the Netherlands,...
Sam Falletta went from a four-cubicle call center to president, owner, and leader of a values-driven sale. In this episode, he breaks down how he built an award-winning culture by focusing on what employees truly need: strengths-based leadership, real-life support, meaningful incentives, and coaching that shifts mindsets.
We explore why most engagement efforts fall flat, how culture changes in a remote world, and the personal reasons behind his decision to step back and choose presence over pressure.
We close with Capiches, his collection of bite-sized life lessons inspired by his dad. This episode is packed with practical insight for leaders who want to build trust, retain talent, and create workplaces that genuinely work.
What we discuss in this episode: -Choosing a scrappy start over a safe path -Leading with dignity and measurable outcomes -Engagement vs turnover and Maslow’s reality -Redesigning incentives to match real needs -On-site counseling and appreciative inquiry -Pay-for-performance and client-aligned metrics -Remote work’s cultural costs and fixes -How and why to choose the right buyer -Capicias as a community for life lessons
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In this sixth video on Appreciative Inquiry, Let’s talk about something that can really shape our success—how we think about the future. In Appreciative Inquiry, there’s a concept called “Anticipatory Reality,” and it’s all about focusing on what we want and how we can get there. This week's video explores what this is and its impact by providing more confidence in your decisions,less anxiety and a brighter outlook on the future
If we lose hope in difficult times, we lose everything.In the past, and even now, we have always held onto hope, and we gather here because together we create hope within ourselves and for …...
The site shut down in 2020. "You can't go on site anymore." ⛔ So how do you keep a massive project running? Open-space technology. A 360° camera on a hard hat let the entire team access the site remotely. Problem solved. 💡
The best intentions of mice and men... aft never leave the conference centre, according to this week's guest, Dave Snowden.
Founder of The Cynefin Company, Dave is a management consultant and complexity scientist who has worked for governments and institutions around the world to help them better understand what populations need, and how to deliver it to them. He joins me today to explain why solutions fail, why populism is on the rise, and why the middle class' penchant for what he calls "talking therapy" will never deliver real change—because it ignores the stories on the street.
This is a conversation which explores geo-engineering, putting oil companies to good use, The Troubles and even Obama's first term, with Dave insisting that it is impossible to change people's minds—we can only facilitate different interactions with the world.
Stop building Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) without a clear strategy for the unintended consequences of AI! As senior software developers, architects, and engineering leaders, we are seeing the rise of autonomous, self-learning multi-agent systems—and with them, an alarming increase in system complexity.
Nimisha Asthagiri (Thoughtworks) cuts through the hype to present essential systems thinking and complexity theory frameworks (like the Cynefin and Iceberg models) needed to design responsible AI. Learn how to identify and govern the vicious 'reinforcing loops' that lead to undesirable outcomes like algorithmic addiction, burnout, and ethical misalignment, using real-world examples from social media to meeting scheduler agents.
⏱️ Video Timestamps (For Navigation) 0:00 The Urgent Problem: Complexity & The Tragedy of the Commons 1:25 Case Study: Unintended Consequences of Social Media 4:50 Causal Flow Diagrams (CFD) Explained 5:40 New AI Risks: Frontier Models & Fake Alignment 9:15 Automated Agents: CFD on Workload, Objectivity & Misconduct 15:00 Mapping AI Use Cases: Algorithm Aversion vs. Algorithmic Appreciation 18:50 Defining an Agent & How It Differs from Microservices 23:00 Multi-Agent Design Patterns (RAG, Chain of Thought, Reflection) 27:15 Agent Topologies: Orchestration vs. Decentralization Tradeoffs 30:00 The Cynefin Framework: Taming Complicated vs. Wicked Complex Problems 32:05 The Iceberg Metaphor: Events, Patterns, Structures, & Mental Models 36:30 Case Study: Drawing a CFD for a Meeting Scheduler Agent 40:55 Practical Tools for Behavioral Observation & Explainability (LIME, SHAP) 43:30 Architectural Boundaries: Human-in-the-Loop & Governance Agents 47:45 Q&A: The Ethics of Influencing Behavior vs. Solving Problems
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