03/10/2025
✨ When Teams Dare to Go Deep, Magic Actually Happens
"What if I asked you, 'How often do you have those REAL team conversations?'
☕️ Would you just awkwardly stare at your coffee like it holds cheat codes for time travel, or would you be thinking about that last time you really sat and listened?"
Truly meaningful discussions don’t just happen—they’re crafted.
Yeah, THOSE conversations. The meaningful ones we often schedule for "when we have time" (which is basically never).
Last week I facilitated one of these unicorn sessions and it reminded me why they're worth fighting for:
✨ Professionals at every experience level learn from each other.
✨ Junior colleagues level up by listening to the seniors.
✨ Even in the open, "speak-up" company cultures, the right respectful questions are needed to unlock honest insights.
✨ People spill the tea when there's no office politics involved (hint: external facilitators might help here).
After our first “Building Stakeholder Relationships” session, participants shared real-life struggles, turning me into a coach/facilitator hybrid. (🦸♀️No capes involved, but next time I’m bringing one. 😁) Less PowerPoint and prepared exercises, more "Wait, this actually happened to you?!" moments.
Huge to the NNIT developers for bringing their A-game vulnerability to the session.... ❤️ And to Elena Minejeva, Marek Durian, Michal Šorejs, and Hana Březinová 💡💡💡 from Inspirata for trusting me to guide this unique team development.
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Are you a manager and want to try some facilitation moves to initiate deeper conversations too?
You can try this during your next meeting:
⚡️Ask one powerful question that nobody’s expecting. (“What have we assumed for years that we might challenge today?”)
⚡️Try a “go-round,” making space for every single voice—even those who usually hang back.
⚡️Swap the manager’s hat for a facilitator’s mindset: Your job isn’t to give answers, but to create a space where the best ones surface from the group.
⚡️⚡️⚡️And what about thinking about and sharing with us, what single question could spark a fresh perspective in your next meeting?
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Funny fact:
🌊 I do not remember how many sessions I have facilitated in the Vltava meeting room... But the funny thing is, that it was at IT companies. Do your meeting rooms have river names too? 😄
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Thank you note:
❤️I love it when people care & share more than compete. Thanks Michaela Holišová for those funny and awesome animal pictures you see on "How are you feeling now" photo below.
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