Picking up an old thread – a confession

This is how I feel on this blog: It’s been nearly a year that I blogged here. It feels really strange to be here again. You may not care at all about what follows. You might just settle for the fact that I’ll try and resume my blogging practice. Or perhaps you don’t care about …

10-year blog anniversary! One heraldic yearly post at at time

Would you believe it? 10 years (and a day) ago I drafted my very first post. It’s been a long and fascinating journey for me. And even though for personal reasons this year I’ve really let down my blogging, I intend to keep on blogging on Agile KM and AgileFacil(itation). Here’s my selection of one …

Moving on after nearly 6 years in Ethiopia, in 6 epitomising posts of the ‘habesha phase’

This Friday – 2 June 2017 – I will be leaving Ethiopia as a resident for good. I will still be working with ILRI but based in The Hague, the Netherlands. Personal matters have taken precedence over professional ones and we have to be back in Europe. It’s a pity in some way, but it’s …

A knowledge management primer (2): DEFGHI

  This is a new series of posts, an alphabet primer of agile knowledge management (KM), to touch upon some of the key concepts, approaches, methods, tools, insights. And because there could have been different alternatives for each letter I’m also introducing the words I had to let go of here.   Today, after covering …

A knowledge management primer (1): KM as simple as ABC

This is a new series of posts, an alphabet primer of knowledge management (KM), to touch upon some of the key concepts, approaches, methods, tools, insights. And because there could have been different alternatives for each letter I’m also introducing the words I had to let go of here. Today I’m starting this primer on …

What facilitators and participants define as ‘success’

Originally posted on agilefacil:
The more I get to facilitate, the more I get to understand how the definition of success (in a facilitated meeting or process) can differ in the eye of the beholder. Particularly between facilitator and participants. Here I intentionally leave the case of the workshop leader / event organiser / decision-maker out…

Internalising facilitation in everyday life, in Africa and globally – an interview with Ed Rege (PICO Eastern Africa)

Originally posted on agilefacil:
Ed Rege (Credits: unknown) I recently had the pleasure of meeting Ed Rege (of PICO-Eastern Africa), an organizational development expert and a well-known facilitator in Africa and worldwide, and a former trainee of Sam Kaner. Ed also happens to be an ex ILRI-staff and not just any staff but a geneticist…

2016 in perspective, 2015 in review

Hello all, I wish you all a very happy, healthy, successful, wonderful 2016! Last year has seen a relative decline in my blogging production. I have been less consistent, I haven’t been as inspired as the previous years. It could be the fact that the I have written about various aspects of the KM field …

Musings of the past week, and a blog experiment

Last week was very rich in conversations that relate to this blog as my organisation was holding its annual communication and knowledge management review and planning meeting. And on the back of that, lots of great free-floating conversations with colleagues and friends…   So I start this week with lots of ideas in mind to …

Sharing and feedback done, now learning and change to go…

And so the results of the feedback survey on this blog are in (though you can still vote here). A big THANK YOU to you all for chipping in! View the results via the link from the survey box below. So: 19 votes pleading for more KM and more communication, and perhaps less on M&E. Two very …