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The Collab Folks Newsletter – Feb 2023

In our last update, we reviewed three important themes from 2022: playing and learning, emotions, thoughts, communication, and movement. Since then, we have some new information to share. The Collab Folks v7.0 will focus on two activities this year with two partners. First, we are bringing back our internal learning dojo where we can practise … Continue reading The Collab Folks Newsletter – Feb 2023

The Collab Folks in 2022 towards 2023

We trust that you had a meaningful 2022 and are enjoying the break in anticipation of 2023. We would like to use this opportunity to update how The Collab Folks at 7 years old continues to learn about learning as a collaborative network. Our play is a little more complex now bringing ideas to reality … Continue reading The Collab Folks in 2022 towards 2023

[Un]masterclass – Failing Design

We would like to share with you the top 3 points from our retrospective (What went well, What did not go well, What can be done better) that was done during our debrief after the session on 17th Feb 2022 night. Retrospective It's difficult to facilitate and participate.It's nice not to play pretend.We need more … Continue reading [Un]masterclass – Failing Design

A very big thank you for joining the first-ever [Un]Masterclass – Failing OKR

We would like to share with you the temperature reading (Link) that was done during our debrief session last night. Temperature reading [try this for yourself too!]:Appreciations- We are appreciative that the 4 facilitators came together and made this ídea possible. We are also greatly appreciative of all the attendees that turn up and engage … Continue reading A very big thank you for joining the first-ever [Un]Masterclass – Failing OKR

Choose your learning adventure with us in 2022

With everything that has happened in the world, it is easy to look back at 2021 as the year we would rather forget.  Thankfully, we were fortunate to work with you and our clients across a spectrum of work Supporting WeCan Adademy via #COWTOPIA Community sessions.Supporting Baan Dada Children's Home via Product Tonic Lab Cohort 1 … Continue reading Choose your learning adventure with us in 2022

4th Annual Product Tonic Unconference 2021

It’s been a privilege to provide stewardship for the ProductBeer and ProductTonic community over the years. When we first engaged the Product Management, Design and Agile communities in Southeast Asia since 2013 via #ProductBeer and later in 2018–present via #ProductTonic, the community has collectively explored a diverse set of topics that matter to us in the region through … Continue reading 4th Annual Product Tonic Unconference 2021

COWTOPIA.SPACE is LIVE!

Thanks to the brilliant work of the #COWTOPIA Space Council Andre Tan, Jeremie Benazra, Jérôme Bourgeon, Jocelyn K, Kwok Chung Yew, Laxman Murugappan, Mihaela Danciu, Mulyadi Oey, Solihin Jinata (SJ), Soma Mazumder, Tze Chin Tang facilitating game play sessions for the community in support of We Can, we have iterated through a number of online sessions this year bringing our in-person game sessions to virtual space. First conceived in 2016 … Continue reading COWTOPIA.SPACE is LIVE!

Enable active listening to manage challenges [Make Meaningful Work Series]

I’ve known Daniel Szuc & Josephine Wong for just over a decade. What started as a conversation about better patterns & practices for user experience maturity back in 2011 morphed into a series of interactions via the community of practices in our learning portfolios. Most recently since 2017, we started sharing our observations about patterns in leadership and team development … Continue reading Enable active listening to manage challenges [Make Meaningful Work Series]

The Collab Folks in 2021 towards 2022

A quick update on our progress this year. We are grateful to continue the practice of checking in with each other and for our clients who trust us to coach their teams towards better results. Since our last update in Feb 2021, the partners have worked together to facilitate A public Online Agile Fundamentals workshop … Continue reading The Collab Folks in 2021 towards 2022

The anatomy of an idea 💡

Tze and Michael started an idea to pair-write together and this kicks off a series of experiments to select a topic from our story map and interview each other. For our first post, Tze examines Michael's anatomy of an idea 💡. What's an idea? An idea is just a new thought to solve a problem. … Continue reading The anatomy of an idea 💡