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Choose courage over collusion
Working with senior leaders on their #leadershipstyle and how they take up their role as leaders, I’m often faced with the dilemma of how far to go with my observations and insights.
Peer coaching without the advice …
What a joy it was to experience leaders providing space for and asking questions to allow each other to do their best thinking in a #peercoaching session this week.
The questions that help unlock us …
Understanding the assumptions we make that drive us to behave in certain ways, is the beginning of freeing us up to behave in new and more effective ways.
Shift the energy of your team meeting with one specific question
Most leaders I work with spend most of their days racing from one meeting to another without a break in between, carrying their thoughts and emotional response to one meeting, straight into the next.
The isolation of imperfection
The isolation of imperfection This week brought news my son’s godfather died suddenly and I was immediately filled with regret for the texts and emails I wrote in my head but didn’t send over the past 6 months. It was painful to sit with my own shortcoming. In the...
The feedback response
One of the things I love about working with Leaders and their teams is uncovering the patterns of thinking and behaving that people fall back on, particularly in challenging times......like NOW. You see we’re all programmed to keep ourselves 'safe' and we’ve been...
Discover what’s holding your team back
I’ve been calling myself a Team Unlocker for a year now. It came out of a conversation with a reality TV expert (no I was never contemplating a stint on reality TV!!) about sticky words. These are the words that people remember about you. What I was looking for was a...
Pressing the pause button….your emotional response hack!
It’s funny how every now and then the same issue crops up in each of my coaching sessions in the same week. Last week I found myself talking about the need to press the pause button in order to respond with greater choice and awareness to a person or situation. It’s...
Getting things right……a balancing act
In a recent Discovery interview with a senior partner in a law firm I was told that if you give a lawyer a choice of two pieces of work, one they are experienced in and the other they have less experience in they will invariably take the first. What followed was a...
We exist to……How Vision and Purpose offer a way out of our sometimes-limiting habits of thinking
Last week I wrote about the need to get things right, the fear of making a mistake and the negative impact these have on innovation and progressive thinking. The post clearly struck a chord – it trended for a few days (a first for me!) and I had lots of private and...
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