Have you ever run a workshop that went brilliantly on the day, only to follow up with participants a few months later and discover that almost nothing had changed? The feedback might have been excellent, the energy in the room was fantastic, and yet very little of what was covered made it into practice. If that sounds familiar, you’re definitely not alone! In this episode we’re going to explore… Read more »Use AGES to make learning stick
What if one of the most used tools in our facilitation kit wasn’t a sticky note, a whiteboard, or a carefully designed slide deck but a pair of comfortable shoes? Between us, we’ve been running workshops for a long time and if there’s one technique that consistently surprises us with how well it works, it’s the walk and talk. It’s a simple thing, just getting people outside, walking and… Read more »Get moving with a walk and talk!
Have you ever needed input from a diverse group of stakeholders, only to find that organising a meeting became harder than solving the actual problem? In this episode, we explore how the Delphi method can help us collect and refine insights from a diverse group of people and help us make collaborative decisions without actually meeting. As enablers of change we tend to work in environments where decisions need… Read more »Use Delphi for collaborative decisions without meetings
Have you ever watched a grower at work and realised they just know what’s going on? No checklist, no book, just a confident read of the paddock, the crop, and the season. Meanwhile, we’re standing next to them, mentally running through anything that might be useful that came up at uni, and wondering what on earth would be the next step. Same paddock but completely different experiences. So what’s… Read more »Understanding how we learn: The Dreyfus model
In this episode, we explore the simple idea that the usefulness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture depends less on the technology itself, and more on whether people trust its outputs. Across agriculture, use of AI continues to build, with tools for analysing weather, soils, crops, and markets becoming available, all of which supports faster and more informed decisions. Global conversations, including those at the recent AI4Agri 2026 event,… Read more »Trust enables AI to work
Have you ever wondered how to get everyone in a group actively thinking, contributing, and building on each other’s ideas, without the discussion getting stuck or dominated by a few voices? In this episode, we explore the bus stop technique, a simple tool for enablers of change that helps structure group work. The bus stop technique is useful as it helps break a large group into small groups. Each… Read more »Use the bus stop and move!
Have you ever taken an AI-generated answer at face value, only to later question whether it was actually right? In this episode, we build on something we mentioned in a recent ‘Using AI in extension’ workshop about why tools like ChatGPT and Copilot can sound convincing even when they’re wrong, and what that means for us as enablers of change. In that online workshop, many participants shared how quickly… Read more »Why AI often gets it wrong
Have we been overlooking some of the most influential voices in our communities? In this episode, we explore how everyday interactions, beyond the usual expert networks, can highlight new pathways for change, and why this matters for enablers of change. When we think about influence, it’s easy to default to the usual suspects. People such as industry leaders, progressive farmers, researchers, or well-known advocates. These voices are important, but… Read more »Everyday influencers matter
Have you ever sat through a round of introductions where forty people each say their name and job title, one after another, and by the end you can barely remember your own name, let alone anyone else’s! Or maybe you’ve been in a small group workshop where the facilitator skipped introductions altogether, leaving everyone wondering who else was in the room! It’s happened to us too many times, so… Read more »How to do effective introductions
Have you ever sat through a two-hour Zoom webinar thinking, I could have just read a summary of this? Or conversely, tried to complete an online self-paced module on a topic that really needed a good conversation to make sense of it? If so, you’ve already identified one of the practical design decisions we face as enablers of change. Our dilemma is whether this learning happens together in real… Read more »The learning design dilemma