You know that line, “You teach what you most need to learn”? Well, that hit me—hard—during a session I ran last week.

This episode is about how I ran a workshop on observation skills… and completely failed to observe the most obvious thing in front of me that very morning. I tell the story of how I showed up early (classic me), spent half an hour meticulously setting up a room—only to realise… it was the wrong room. The right room was already beautifully prepped, with name tags, tea and coffee… and a big old sign. I just didn’t see it.

In this one, I talk about:

• The curse of knowledge (and how it gets in the way of being present)
• Why assumptions are sneaky little things
• How I turned a real-time fail into a perfect case study during the session
• The role of observation in coaching and leadership
• How to get out of your head and into the room (literally and figuratively)

Sometimes our best material shows up when we mess up.

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