Sylvia's Journal

We are doing a heavily compressed leadership development program; instead of 12 days over 4 months, we have people for 4.5 days only.

Yesterday I was primarily a coach for the two facilitators, giving feedback, fine-tuning the design and reviewing the work products. I was also the typist, typing up several flipcharts which gave me a feel for the thinking of the participants.

Today I was more of a trainer, exploring people’s experiences with social phenomena such as influence, change, overcoming obstacles to achieve things of importance, then providing frameworks to hang their experiences on.

One of the things we taught the participants is to ask ‘why?’ often. We trained them well because they are now constantly asking the question. Practice makes perfect.