Connection Before Content – Best Icebreaker & Team Builder
Welcome! If you’re here, you’ve discovered a concept I believe to be the ultimate icebreaker and team-building approach: Connection Before Content. Think of this article as your crash course, packed with insights, strategies, and tools to bring intentional connection into any event, meeting, or gathering. By the end, you’ll have practical techniques to shift the […]
Ask THIS to Edit Your Future
How Connectors Edit the Future: Conversations That Change Lives What if a simple question could change the trajectory of someone’s life? Two years ago, a mentor of mine asked me a seemingly mundane question: “What’s something you’d like to do more of?” My answer? Scuba diving. At the time, I hadn’t been diving in four […]
5 Meeting Starter Questions for Events: Fantastic Templates to Build Connection and Purpose
Starting a meeting with the right question can make a world of difference. Crafting fantastic questions for meetings and events is an art—and a science. This guide offers five go-to templates for creating connection-building, purposeful questions that you can easily adapt for any setting. Plus, I’ll share some best practices so that you can master […]
Top 5 Facilitation Skills | How To Be A Great Facilitator
Whether you’re a beginner facilitator just starting out, or you’re an expert who makes a living from facilitating, training, and leading groups, this blog post is for you. I’m going to break down the top five facilitation skills, but with a twist—I’ll map them out on a timeline. From the moment your session begins to […]
How To Win The (Conversational) Lottery
We have an immense amount of choice in the types of conversations we start and continue. For the last couple of years, I’ve been working with the faculty at WSU Tech to help them create engaging content for their classes. Today, I want to bring you behind the scenes into one of my small group […]
5 Essential Questions for a Happy and Successful Life
Harvard’s College of Education Dean, James Ryan, recently gave a speech to the year’s graduating class about the 5 essential questions to ask for a successful and happy life. Regardless of life’s barriers, both personal and professional, there are ways to establish the necessary grounding to move forward. 1.) Wait, what? The first question allows […]
