Episode 69: Creating more shiny eye moments for your group with Nadja Petranovskaja

Listen to this episode from First Time Facilitator on Spotify. Wouldn't it be great if, when Monday hit, more people would say, "yeaaah, TGIF!' Today's guest is on the line from Germany and she wants more people getting excited about every single day.

Wouldn’t it be great if, when Monday hit, more people would say, “yeaaah, TGIF!’

Today’s guest is on the line from Germany and she wants more people getting excited about every single day. Her name is Nadja Petranovskaja, she has a company called ‘More Shiny Eyes’ and she has  really fresh approach to the way she facilitates.

Nadja has more than 20 years of experience as a psychologist. After completing her studies in Hamburg, the native Russian gained international experience as a consultant, project manager, and manager in numerous industries.

Since 2011, she’s been a solopreneur and has devoted herself to the task of making organizations and teams fit for the future.

She’s also extremely positive, helpful and observant - I think her observation and preparation skills are expert level.  Simply from corresponding with her to be on this show, my experience of Nadja has been so professional - she’s extremely responsive and thorough in her communication approach and I think if you’re a client working with her, she would make the process so easy - I can probably grab a few tips from the way she interacts.

I also found this conversation so helpful in assisting the way I’m guiding some upcoming sessions, and I hope you find the same. What I liked about her career history, is that she was working in quite technical roles but the common element about working for IBM, or assembling an airplane - was the people. And she discovered her genius in connecting people to achieve whatever it was.

In this episode, she also shares details about her Kanban board in her living room! If you haven’t heard of Kanban, it’s a a work and workflow visualisation tool that enables you to optimise the flow of your work.  She loves visual facilitation.

If you’re listening in while this episode release, a very cool thing about Nadja is that she has a kickstarter campaign going at the moment to promote a facilitator resource called ‘Wonder Cards’ - I’ll let her explain what it is in the interview but it’s one of those ideas you hear and think, ahh that’s brilliant! And she’s created something that will help you when you plan or deliver your next workshop.

Click here to view Nadja's kickstarter campaign.