Save or Savour?

Claire writes: “Ruth and I finished Day 4 of Transforming Conversations last week with a group. One of them had struggled with the process from Day 1 saying it felt too cold and businessy. His comment as he left was ‘God is really here’. That’s...

3D Ideas 840: Tennis Ball Machine

Claire writes: “Tennis ball machines, I have seen in films, can serve lots of balls as you practice your return.   Questions asked at the same pace as a tennis ball machine are quite overwhelming. We often see one question after another launched at the person...

3D Ideas 838: Insteads

Claire writes: “We have written before about the usefulness of David Clutterbuck’s 4 Is to close a conversation together.  And how it can be used to co-create some written output from a conversation when that’s useful. It’s great in appraisals. Especially for people...

3D Ideas 836: Landing the Plane

Claire writes: “It amazes me how some professionals instinctively know what is an hour – or, in the case of GPs, 10 minutes. I notice as I listen to people having conversations that even when there has been partnership throughout a conversation, the person with...

3D Ideas 831: Carol Services

Su writes: “It struck me at the Carol Service last night that the startling new insights that we can get from hearing the same readings every year is very much like our 3D method of learning the same material and always learning something new and profound each...