Unprofessionalism
Most career advice tells you to hide uncertainty, perform confidence, and never let them see you sweat.
This podcast is about what happens when you ignore that advice.
Unprofessionalism is a series of conversations with people who broke professional conventions and discovered something better on the other side: the designer who ignored the 'approved tools' and saved thousands of hours. The founder who built a practice by openly admitting gaps in expertise. The consultant who called out dysfunction everyone else had learnt to work around. The people who recognised that professionalism had become performance theatre: a mask hiding the messy, human work that actually creates value.
Hosted by Dr Myriam Hadnes—behavioural economist and founder of a global leadership training practice—each conversation dissects a specific moment where someone chose effectiveness over appearance, then reverse-engineers what made it work.
You'll hear the friction before the decision, the immediate aftermath, and what changed months later. The pattern recognition across these moments becomes your playbook.
If you've ever sat in a meeting thinking 'this is broken but I can't say it', this podcast tells you what happened to the people who did.
New episode every week.
Unprofessionalism
217 - Finding Your Facilitator Flow: The Art of Balancing Presence and Process with Sean Blair
Do you have a presence when you facilitate? (Hint: we all do, whether we mean to or not!)
The thing is, not all of us know it or practice it. Our presence is a combination of how we show up and how we give out our energy to the room. It’s not just about being present, but the way we do it.
Sean Blair has been experimenting with his presence for many years now and has found some surprising results. He’s learned that presence is a flexible force that can positively influence outcomes and experiences in workshops - now he wants to help other facilitators understand and use it.
Find out about:
- What Sean defines as presence and how it differs being from present
- Why a facilitator’s presence is best when it’s flexible and adaptable
- How to assess a group or situation and dial in your presence to suit it
- Working out when it’s right to provoke the group and when to hold back
- The variables that affect how a group behaves and receives you - and how presence can influence that
- How to harness our energy and direct it in a way that is beneficial for the group
- How to relate to the group before you meet them and why it can be so helpful
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Links
Watch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.
Connect to Sean:
On LinkedIn
SERIOUSWORK, Sean’s LEGO® Serious Play™ company
ProMeet, Sean’s facilitation business
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You can now find the podcast on Substack, where your host Dr. Myriam Hadnes is building a club for you to find fellow listeners and peers: https://myriamhadnes.substack.com/
