Coaching Cocktails Blog

Big Pharma Transformation

6th April 2021

How can open space be effective inside mega-corporations operating in a critical and highly regulated industry?

This is my story of holding space for drug development teams working inside one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

The “CEO of the molecule” invited everyone to gather offsite to figure out how they would safely get a breast cancer “cure” to the oncologists and patients who desperately needed it.

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Fairy Circles

6th August 2020

How do you hold space meaningfully when people aren’t in the same space?

When the gobal pandemic hit people reached instinctively for Open Space Technology—because it’s a natural fit. Here are some thoughts from my experience holding remote open space in a time of incredible dispruption. Like all open space: it’s far easier than it looks and much harder than you ever imagined.

Zoom Mobility

23rd July 2020

I need Zoom Mobility—an imaginary feature so that people choose their Zoom break-out rooms and move freely between them. Mobility is vital to the life-changing magic of holding space.

I just requested if from Zoom.

Why Zoom?

13th June 2020

We’ve been using Zoom since 2015. Here’s why. We also find Zoom offers the ease, safety, and security we need—and we have practice procedures for reacting to harassment and other problems. (Which thankfully we’ve never had to use.)

18 Tips to Setup Your Remote Sessions

25th March 2020

Do you know these 18 quick tip we learned by creating holding our remote experiences at CoachingCocktails.com.

People first. Then interactions, processes, and tools. In that order.

Remote Now

23rd March 2020

18 tips for trainers, facilitators, coaches, managers, and other leaders working remote and guiding the experience.

Finally, here’s our story of how we create high bandwidth, high interaction experiences online.

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