The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Asia has recently announced a community outreach award as part of their forthcoming The 12th Annual IAF Asia Facilitator Conference with the theme: GEAR up for the future! The conference will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 28 to 31, 2009. Instead of having just a series of [...]
Did you know that Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change due to its long coastlines, high concentration of population and economic activity in coastal areas, and heavy reliance on agriculture, natural resources, and forestry? Don’t look now but it’s already affecting the region as evidenced by extreme [...]
Much has been said about participatory project design and planning and its importance in achieving project results. However, Results-based Management is also about monitoring targets in the midterm. And if we want an accurate picture of how our project is really performing, we should get the involvement of key project stakeholders during the exercise. This [...]
Another Training of Facilitators in Results-focused Project Design and Management has been conducted at the Pilgrimage Village Hotel in Hue, Vietnam.
Careful: We Can All Read Facial Expressions
By David Stevensi
Your face may not be your fortune, but your facial expression is as much a part of communication with others as is speaking. We all know and easily recognize the common expressions like fear, interest, sadness, shame, disgust, surprise, happiness, and anger. In fact, these [...]