3D Ideas 746: Mentoring

Claire writes: “There are many names for one to one conversations – supervision, mentoring, coaching, critical friend, soul friend… It doesn’t really matter what you call the conversation you are having.  It does matter that you do what you...

3D Ideas 744: Language

Claire writes: “People ask great questions.  Many people ask several great questions in quick succession! This dilutes the impact of the first question.  When I am giving feedback while listening to people having great conversations, I often need to invite them...

3D Ideas 740: A Question

Claire writes: “A delegate on a course pointed out that long questions often evoke short answers.  Short questions often evoke long answers.  When the purpose of a conversation is to facilitate someone else’s thinking, short questions are always more...

3D Ideas 738: Ten in the Bed

Claire writes: “Do you wake up in the night sometimes thinking about and even talking to someone who has got under your skin? I do.  Of course they aren’t really there and they certainly don’t know that I wake up with them… and yet we can spend...

3D Ideas 737: Treadmill

Claire writes: “We have a saying in the office after a holiday: The purpose of the first day back is to get to the end of the day! I’m noticing lots of people are coming back from breaks with some resolution to apply some of the reflections that the break...