Flawless Consulting – Peter Block – Book Summary
Explore key insights from Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting, The trusted guide for consultants seeking to build trust, solve problems, and drive sustainable client results.
Connecting for the common good – Session 4 – Peter Block
Below is my fourth sketchnote (more note than sketch) on the fourth session with Peter Block on Connecting for the common good. Generative Journalism was front and centre of the session, with Peter Pula (website) explaining what it is and how WE can make it happen. There is one more in the series and that can be found here.
Connecting for the common good – Session 3 – Peter Block
This is my third session attending Connecting for the Common Good with Peter Block. As always, some great conversations and ideas. There are two more in the series. See HERE to attend. Here is my sketchnote summary of the session:
Connecting for the common good – Session 2 – Peter Block
Yesterday I attended the second session by Peter Block on "Connecting for the common good". A great follow on session with new people to meet and exchange ideas with. There are three more in the series. See HERE to attend. Here is my sketchnote summary of the session:
Connecting for the common good – Session 1 – Peter Block
Yesterday I attended a session by Peter Block on "Connecting for the common good". As always engaging, energising and motivating. There are four more in the series. See HERE. Here is my sketchnote summary of the session:
Activating the common Good – Peter Block – Book Summary
The book in 3 sentences Peter Block challenges the dominant “business perspective”, built on scarcity, consumption, and institutional control, and offers a new story: the common good perspective, where citizens reclaim agency through trust, local action, and relational care. He argues that real change happens when neighbours gather, share power, and co-create community well-being, rather than waiting for systems to fix [...]
The answer to how is yes – Peter Block – Book summary
The full title is "The Answer to How is YES: Acting on what matters." The book in 3 sentences Peter Block argues that our obsession with asking “how?” masks a deeper avoidance of personal responsibility and purpose. Instead of chasing solutions, we should begin by saying “yes” to what truly matters and commit to it without waiting for permission or certainty. [...]
Stewardship – Peter Block – Book Summary
The book in three sentences Peter Block’s Stewardship redefines leadership as a choice to serve rather than control. It challenges traditional models of power, accountability, and ownership, arguing for organisations built on partnership, transparency, and shared purpose. The book is a call to abandon patriarchal governance and become stewards, that is, people who are deeply accountable without needing to dominate. Who [...]
Community – Peter Block – Book Summary
The book in 3 sentences The core idea is that without a shift in trust, social capital, belonging, and relatedness...our capacity to solve problems, organize work effectively, or end the suffering around us is greatly diminished. Genuine transformation arises when everyone connected to the situation shows up, trusts each other and decides how to make things better...the possibilities we have. Through [...]
The Empowered Manager – Peter Block – Book Summary
The book in 3 sentences The Empowered Manager is a practical guide for managers who want to lead with integrity, not control. It shows how managers can choose partnership over hierarchy, service over self-interest, and accountability over compliance. By making these personal shifts, managers can foster trust, ownership, and meaningful change, regardless of the system they work in. Who should read [...]
Mentoring hub – A range of resources
This is a hub of resources around mentoring. Within it you will find a range of links and recommendations that may help you on your journey to become a mentor or being an even better one. If you have any additional resources you think I should share, please let me know. A short selection of books that are worth [...]
Whole brain leadership
Research around whole brain thinking and a simple coaching tool to support right brain thinking.
Drawify founding member
Joining the Drawify team - A quick look at what it is.
Collaborative learning projects
Blog piece on Virtual collaboration lessons learnt as an OU student
Design Thinking hub
A hub of resources related to Design Thinking
B329 Content Overview
Slide deck showing what is covered each week in B329
Visual: regenerative leadership model
Source: Leading for Regeneration : Going Beyond Sustainability in Business Education, and Community by John Hardman
Flawless Consulting book – Sketchnotes
Sketchnotes from chapters 1 to 13 of Flawless Consulting
Flawless Consulting Discovery – Sketchnote
A simple sketch note on key ideas from Peter Block's Flawless Consulting "Discovery process"
Face to Face or Online facilitation
A short presentation delivered to Nedja Petranovskaja's Remote Cafe Session on Face to Face versus Remote Facilitation?
Visual Templates Collection
This is a curation of Visual Templates I have found: either by being sent them or on my travels on the internet
Canvas or template – what’s the difference?
My very brief thoughts on what makes a canvas
Notes from coaching interview with Tuende Erdoes
Notes written as I listened to Tuende Erdoes on "Integrative presence: Debunking the myths and realities around coaching presence and goal attainment"
Notes from coaching interview with Teresa Pool
Notes written as I listened to Teresa Pool on "Get off your Coaching Couch!"
Notes from coaching interview with Judith Duhl
Notes written as I listened to Judith Duhl on "Conscious Competence to Unconscious Competence: The leap into mastery"
Notes from coaching interview with D Ivan Young
Notes written as I listened to D Ivan Young on "Creating intimacy and trust with your client. The Empathetic path toward the Generational Moment"
Host Leadership – Sketchnote
A sketchnote from a session by Pierluigi Pugliese
Notes from coaching interview with Ihab Badawi
Notes written as I listened to Ihab Badawi on "Coaching Wholeness: Creating Deeper & Sustainable Impact"
Notes from coaching interview with Fran Fisher
Notes written as I listened to Fran Fisher on "Calling Forth Greatness: Who I am Being Empowers My Coaching"
Notes from coaching interview with Diana Ideus
Notes written as I listened to Diana Ideus on "No One Listens Like Coaches Listen"
Notes from coaching interview with Cherie Silas
Notes written as I listened to Cherie Silas on "Introduction to systems coaching: What is it and how is it different than coaching individuals"
Notes from coaching interview with Ben Koh
Notes written as I listened to Dr Ben Koh on "Transcendent - Coaching in the Moment"
Zoom cheat sheet
A double sized document to help trainers and facilitators get the best out of Zoom
Ia Brix – Visual Templates webinar
A series of sketchnotes from a session by Ia Brix on designing and using visual templates.
Move toward the fear
A sketchnote on the role of fear in facilitation from the book The Collaboration Code
Trust in the Process
A sketchnote on the role of trust in the process of facilitation
Scan Focus Act – Facilitation Method
The Scan Focus Act facilitation model in a sketchnote summary - Taken from The Collaboration Code book series
Conscious co-facilitation
A sketchnote on how to do solid co-facilitation from the book series The Collaboration Code
Approach to facilitation
A sketchnote on an approach to facilitation outlines in The Collaboration Code book series
Facilitation physical environment
A series of sketchnotes on the role of the physical environment in facilitation and how to design for its use
Habit change
This "hub" page contains a range of resources around habit change. In order you will find sketch notes, book summaries and then articles - all denoted by different icons I have been a big fan of BJ Foggs work for quite a few years now and have written blog posts on his ideas previously. He has recently launched a [...]
Collaboration tools
Resources for effective collaboration
Systems thinking hub
This page is a "hub" page of resources around systems thinking. It is not meant to be authoritative nor definitive, but should hopefully give those interested in Systems Thinking a head start on learning about systems thinking. There are many "flavours" or methodologies of systems thinking. Here I aim to provide a general overview. So what is systems thinking? I like [...]
1st attempt at a Sketchnote
As part of working towards my goal of becoming a graphic scribe, I am looking to start sketch noting. This is a pretty practical skill to have for my work and for the study of my MA. Here is my first attempt, which is a summary of the book by Perry Holley “Repeat the Remarkable” Having done this and reviewed my first attempt, [...]
The Performance equation
This is the fourth, in an occasional series, of articles around key concepts that have had a signifiant impact on me as a business leader, person, coach, trainer and facilitator. I originally came across the concept of the inner game and the performance long before I even knew what coaching was and far before I got trained as a professional coach. [...]
Comfort Zone
This is the fifth in a series of articles around key concepts that have impacted me personally and professionally over the course of my career. I cam across the phrase of comfort zone early in my career when working at Plas-Y-Brenin, The National Centre for Mountain Activities in Snowdonia North Wales. All instructors were asked to stretch course participants out of their [...]
DeBono – Direct Attention Thinking Tools
This is the third of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. When considering to change career in my very early twenties and get into working in people performance improvement in organisation I wandered into Gibraltar's only book shop at that time. The management section was pretty thin, but [...]
Stop – Challenge – Choose
This is the second of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. “Stop, Challenge and Choose” is a powerful concept that I learnt back in 1994, when working with a client to deliver an 18,000 person training programme in 18 months. The programme was based around the work developed [...]
Circle of Control
This is the first of a series of blog pieces around what I consider to be the most essential concepts I have come across in the course of my 20 years as a manager, leader, trainer, coach. The first of these is attributed to the great author Stephen Covey, and comes from his book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. [...]
Twitter for facilitators
As International Facilitation Week ramps up, I wanted to contribute by trying to connect more facilitators globally together through Twitter. In order to do this, I thought I would share my experience of Twitter by creating this short Frequently Asked Questions guide. Its aim is to help facilitators understand what twitter is and how you they can leverage its use: 1) [...]