1:11 What’s the story behind your company name “Bracket”?

5:15 What did you learn from your time working with creatives about the facilitation of business meetings and workshops?

6:43 How do you get management teams to become more “creative”? 

7:48 How do you facilitate creativity without getting into the “touchy-feely” zone and how do you turn the outcomes into something productive? 

9:45 What will you then do with these ideas to get to the productive bit?

11:53 What is the timeframe you advise your clients to take for a workshop to tackle a specific problem?

13:21 What is the difference between a workshop, a group discussion and a meeting? 

15:48 How can we bring the dynamic part of a workshop into a meeting? 

19:30 How would you initiate this transformative process of introducing workshop culture into a team? 

26:08 Do you have ground rules that come along with what you call “workshop culture”?

28:05 What are the ingredients you need to bring workshop culture into a “normal meeting”?

28:36 With what kind of exercises would you use for that?

29:38 Not every team can afford hiring a facilitator for a “normal” meeting. Could a team member take on this facilitation role? 

34:33 Do you believe in taking mindfulness into meetings?

35:50 How do you deal with a situation where a check-in comment risks to take the meeting somewhere else? 

36:54 What’s the magic that gets work done in a workshop?

38:06 To what extent is the facilitator responsible for the follow-through of workshop outcomes? 

40:37 How can we bring the energy back up in a full day workshop – especially after everyone comes back from lunch? 

45:03 Why are organisations today so much more aware of the benefits of collaboration compared to 10 years ago when you first started? What has changed?