And That is How Leaders Create Compliance, Thinking it is Great Leadership
LEADER (as a participant in the room), " So we all agree it is....." or the faster, "Does everyone agree ?" ROOM ..... some nods, mostly that suspicious silence that [...]
How You Show Up Matters – Creating Leadership Presence
One of the things I have struggled with my whole life (well, almost my whole life) has been showing up in a way that allows what I have to say [...]
Leading, Language and Mindfulness
One of the principles behind our internal Agile/ Servant Leadership program is balancing advocation with inquiry. As the three days progress it becomes clear that people don’t have clarity around [...]
Leading isn’t Helping, Love isn’t Fixing
"Please, don't try to fix me. I am not broken. I have not asked for your solutions." The title for an excerpt that connected ...and a paragraph became a blog [...]
Unpacking that word ‘ Service’ – Why it is sometimes really not about you at all
I hate the word ‘service’. Hardly an enlightened stand, but I have never been able to understand it. It seemed forced on me, as if somehow to qualify as spiritually [...]
The Difference Between Helping & Coaching
It always astonishes me what lessons there are to be learnt in coaching, this weeks is how entrenched the concept of being helped is in our society. Here is the [...]