I often start and end an innovation workshop with a personal "weather report". What are you? Sunny? Cloudy? Stormy? Breezy? It is a simple way to understand how people are arriving to that moment or how they are leaving. A couple of metaphorical words and you understand a lot. It doesn't really matter what their weather report is as much as it matters to understand where a person is. Being stormy is not in some way better or worse than being sunny, though I often see "stormy" people a bit shy about offering that report. With innovation work, the key is to be present and tapping into your personal weather report is a simple way of being so. ..