by Amanda Parker | May 22, 2017 | Facilitating, Leadership, Process Improvement
For those who hike or are into wild natural foods, you have likely heard of stinging nettles, sometimes referred to as burn hazel. However, for most folks, this seeming weed remains a misunderstood member of the botanical world. When my wife and I bought our hobby...
by Amanda Parker | May 15, 2017 | Facilitating, Innovation, Teambuilding
Struggling to get your team to think creatively? Are you looking for innovation by trying the same old strategy of “think outside the box?” Struggling to get them to move past the same old answer? Try this approach – it’s how I get my GPS…and teams… to...
by Amanda Parker | Apr 6, 2017 | Facilitating, Innovation, Process Improvement, Teambuilding
It’s spring, and time to think baseball. It may also be good time to get our processes in better shape, so here’s a story to help you differentiate process thinking from outcome thinking…critical to process improvement. A while back, I was helping a good guy...
by Amanda Parker | Feb 20, 2017 | Facilitating, Teambuilding
Data is all around us more and more, and sometimes its hard to actually visualize what you are really need to do with it. As facilitators, we need to help participants with data visualization to see the information they are wrestling with more clearly. To show you...
by Amanda Parker | Apr 23, 2014 | Facilitating, Innovation, Teambuilding
It crosses cultures. There are infinite varieties. It is a staple for most people in the world. It provides nourishment. For thousands of years we didn’t truly understand what was happening to make it work. And this fabulous invention is…Bread! I want to share...
by Amanda Parker | Mar 1, 2013 | Facilitating, Teambuilding
The following Myers-Briggs story illustrates the opener versus the closer portion of type (or perceiver versus judger). This is a real life story, but the names of my friends have been changed. My co-instructor for Myers-Briggs, we will call him Frank, and I met...