A large, publicly-funded civil engineering project, which had lasted four years and involved partner organisations from five different countries, was drawing to a close. The challenge was to quickly and efficiently look back at the results of the project, and draw out relevant lessons. In order to extract maximum benefit from the experience, a ...
By Michael Mallows, May 2007 Most people’s listening skills, if they listen at all, are very poor indeed! Many, not least many in the so-called listening or helping professions, who might be described by others as, and would consider themselves good listeners, have little training in listening. Yes, they might have read, been taught or ...
We did it! Happy but exhausted participants, assistants, trainers and assessors celebrated the end of their gruelling intensive Clean course at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Some in the Clean Community were sceptical when Clean Change Company announced this event. Could it be done? All four foundation-level modules, plus assessment ...
When recruiting for very senior roles (£400k+) in the pharmaceutical industry, as in any business, you can’t afford mistakes. Tightly defined frameworks allow detailed assessment of competencies, and standard interview and meeting protocols gather the views of prospective colleagues. And still something extra was wanted – another ...
By Judy Rees First published in Resource magazine, April 2006 It was always going to be an adventure – the first interview maverick therapeutic genius David Grove had given since 1996. So maybe it wasn’t surprising to find myself dangling upside-down in a dark, sub-zero November car park on a psycho-active fairground ride. ...
This is an animated transcript of a short exchange between James Lawley and a training participant. James uses Clean Language questions and the participant’s own words to facilitate the other’s exploration of their metaphor, with surprising results. The transcript was taken from an article ‘Less Is More – The Art of ...
From The Times, October 21, 2006 By Angela Jameson BAE Systems used art to communicate its strategy, writes our correspondent. BAE SYSTEMS had a problem. For years it had provided support to the RAF, but what the customer wanted was changing. Instead of fixing the fighter jet when it developed a fault, it was cheaper for the RAF to pay to have ...
By Judy Rees, for The Model magazine, Christmas 2006 And what would you like to have happen this New Year? Are you thinking of making that big change – stopping smoking, cutting down on booze, getting regular exercise and eating well – yet again? It’s like Samuel Johnson said of second marriages: a triumph of hope over ...
Greenmann is a commercial company employing a UK-wide force of fundraisers on behalf of a number of wildlife and conservation charities, selling memberships door-to-door. After winning a major new contract, the company wanted to improve the results achieved by their new recruits so as to maximise revenue and reduce staff turnover. Clean ...
by Phil Swallow and Wendy Sullivan Once we accept that we always affect a person with whom we interact, we can also realise that there are many ways to avoid clumsily trampling over another’s map and even attempting to re-write it for them. The map is not the territory ‘The map is not the territory’ is one of the ...
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