Preface
As I sat pensively at the trainer’s table in the back of the room, observing my co-facilitator painstakingly deliver her workshop segment, I began to think she needed to do one or more of the following, and quickly:
- take a break to regroup
- do a lot more listening and a lot less talking
- pray for divine intervention
- acknowledge to the participants that the workshop was not going as planned and ask for their assistance in righting the ship.
I signaled to her to give the group an assignment, thinking that a brief huddle-up with me would allow us to discuss the sinking ship that was once our workshop. Instead, she shot me a look that shouted, “I can handle this without your help, Jim” and continued her monotone death by lecture. ...
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