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Alastair Olby

I get a Notion life will be different from here on

Yes, it seems certain that life post COVID-19 will be different, but that’s not what this article’s about. I decided to write this because…

6 min readJan 29, 2021

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Alastair Olby

On a Hiding to Nothing? The Impossible Quest for Neutrality

Is acting as a neutral vessel when facilitating truly a realistic aim? Facilitators are typically trained they should be neutral, staying…

6 min readNov 21, 2020

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Alastair Olby

How Zoom Overdoses are Impacting Our Brains

What an upheaval we’re going through right now. With nearly all meetings, plus learning and development, having shifted online, all too…

4 min readNov 19, 2020

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Alastair Olby

Why Generalists are the Secret Ingredient to the Future

The developed world seems to have long had a love affair with specialists, often resulting in disciplines and occupations becoming ever…

4 min readSep 16, 2020

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Why Generalists are the Secret Ingredient to the Future

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Alastair Olby

How Decision Making Unwittingly Limited the World’s Future

And why, if you’re a leader, you should prick up your ears

4 min readAug 29, 2020

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Alastair Olby

Mastering Distributed Collaboration = Key Competitive Advantage

If you’ve recently moved people to work from home (WFH), how well does your culture support it? Actually, even if the move wasn’t recent…

3 min readJul 22, 2020

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Mastering Distributed Collaboration = Key Competitive Advantage

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Alastair Olby

Why Poor Punctuation could be your Weakest Link

Punctuation is important, right? Without it, a string of words won’t necessarily make sense. The same goes for our work. We need…

3 min readJul 17, 2020

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Why Poor Punctuation could be your Weakest Link

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Alastair Olby

More Control is Not the Answer

You’ve told them so many times, but…

3 min readJul 16, 2020

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Alastair Olby

How’s Your Punctuation?

Punctuation is important, right? Without it, a string of words won’t necessarily make sense. The same goes for our work. We need…

3 min readJul 16, 2020

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How’s Your Punctuation?

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Alastair Olby

Could you be more specific please?

All this means to avoid misunderstandings, we need to be more specific in our communications, a pitfall that raised its head yesterday.

3 min readJul 6, 2020

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Could you be more specific please?

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Alastair Olby

Alastair Olby

Passionate about engaging people in change for the better. Professional facilitator, brain-friendly learning expert and alpine ski coach.

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