Greetings! Perhaps you’ve noticed the change in our new and improved, 100% organic, zero-calorie, gluten-free newsletter. It also now provides 13 essential vitamins and minerals. Okay, okay … we just reckoned it was due for a wash and wax … hope you like it. Stay curious, Godec How We’re Being Schooled Politics has always been… read more →
Greetings! It’s that time of year, for those of us living in the Arizona desert, when we keep our Charmin in the freezer for some occasional relief. But once again we, your public sherpas, are here with a few tips to make your work life and life-life a little more successful and, we hope, easier.… read more →
Dear Valued Associate, I suppose it’s from a mix of morbid curiosity, a sense of citizenship or interest in some level of truth that I’ve been skimming my way through the 729 page Mueller Report. I’m not sure that my attention span will hold up under 729 pages of legalese, but try to ignore the distractions of the… read more →
Dear Valued Associate, Back with another newsletter, as the creator intended. You’ve probably been seeing a lot of intentionally distracting publicity about “fake news” the past few weeks, as well as a lot of disturbing new data about the tragic loss of so many small town newspapers in this country. It reminded me of something that… read more →
Dear Valued Associate, And on a lighter note, welcome to spring – Easter’s on its way! This month’s issue is made from powdered wildflowers, baby bunnies and sunshine. So pull up a chair, click on side 1 of Led Zeppelin 4 and enjoy this current installment. Stay curious, Godec Facilitating Tough Crowds and Understanding Outrage… read more →
Are You Informed? If you’re at all familiar with the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Public Participation Spectrum, you know that the listed range of public influence level categories begins with ‘Inform’. And if you learned about the Spectrum from a licensed IAP2 instructor, you should also have learned that just ‘informing’ people, in… read more →
Dear Valued Associate, I saw former FBI Director James Comey speak a few weeks ago. Regardless of how you actually feel about him, he’s an interesting guy – and really tall. He talked about focusing on ‘the good that follows the bad’, which, as you can imagine, serves him pretty well these days. He also… read more →
Facilitation Tips and Belonging to a Gang? I belong to a motorcycle gang. I’m also in a bicycle club. I never go to the meetings, I don’t actually know many of the other respective members, and I don’t usually see them unless we meet on the road, but we have a bond and a code… read more →
Dear Valued Associate, Punxsutawney Phil crawled out of his burrow on Groundhog Day and did not see his shadow, which means six more episodes of Gwyneth Paltrow selling organic cucumber colon cleansers on Netflix. In honor of this occasion, here’s a wide ranging smorgasbord of ideas and tips that I think you’ll find useful. TPC wants… read more →
Dear Valued Associate, I’ve rewritten this intro several times in the past few days but it never felt quite right, and then I facilitated a meeting last week. It was with a group of people representing various interests that have been meeting regularly for a couple of years to build consensus on an important and complex… read more →