A participant in a workshop that I led drew the above picture to describe the role he played in his company's process:

Do drawings help members of a team to better reveal their point of view?

Ever had one of your buttons pushed?

During a terrific session at the AYE Conference entitled Software by the Numbers, I discovered a new button of mine. Let's call it the "Planning" button.

I had a nightmare last night. I was reliving a workshop that I took during a prior job.

I think the nightmare was triggered by a box of material I found in a storage area that contained documents from that job. I noticed the box was labeled "The Dark Years."

In response to my post entitled Your Team's Answer is Wrong, my colleague Bob Lee writes -- 

(You wrote) "The trainers passed out a copy of the correct answer for the case study to all of us." (emphasis added) The definite article the as opposed to the indefinite article a is a killer here. Had they framed their solution as a solution rather than the solution would you have the same issues? (Even a correct solution affords room for other and even better solutions)