Ask a group of people about what they have valued about work since Coronavirus hit, and you will hear ‘greater autonomy’ and ‘feeling more empowered’ high amongst the responses. In 2020 COVID-19 has created disruption and forced leaders and managers to give people more discretion over their work – how and when they do it....
Harmony in a leadership team can be seductively alluring, an ideal to aim for… It can also be a recipe for poor quality decisions and less creative thought, maintaining a course for the status quo. Thinking about the leadership team you are part of, how well do you surface and resolve conflict creatively in ways...
There is a massive opportunity cost for being a Functional Leadership Team! Sadly, if the result of a quick poll I did last week on a webcast is indicative, almost half of you are part of a Functional Team. (See the flipchart below from this session – the blue figures show the attendees’ assessment of...
Who gets to decide? When I work with senior leadership teams, it is often apparent that there is a lack of clarity between what is an executive team decision, and what decisions lie with individual executives, or even below executive level. This lack of clarity leads to executive team energy being wasted on decisions that are...
‘Could all teams benefit from Fearless Leadership?’ This fabulous question was asked by a director when I presented to the board about the Fearless Leadership program their exec team was mid-way through. My response? ‘Yes all teams could benefit… And not all teams are up for it!’ Here are three indicators that your team is...
Leadership Great South Coast is a community leadership program including leaders from multiple sectors across Western Victoria. In this year’s cohort are two local Indigenous leaders. Recently we had a conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement, and how white Australian leaders can offer support. This was an interesting, emotional, and enlightening conversation, that also...
Thinking about the leadership team that you are on… Are you seen as a team? Or just a group of senior leaders? This is an important question at any time. Even more so now when many leadership teams are working remotely and clear leadership is needed for confidence and organisational survival. Here are 7 indicators...
Courage is an important leadership quality, especially right now. My last blog – and webcast last week – on courage in a leadership team generated lots of interest. How does courage between peers on a senior leadership team play out? And what does it look like when we lack interpersonal courage? Here are some examples...
Courage is a critical element of Fearless Leadership®. One of the deepest forms of courage is required in the way you work with your peers on the leadership team. In Fearless Leadership Teams, courage coexists with compassion and curiousity. Here are 3 dos of courage: Do listen. Our listening is so often transactional, listening to...
Sometimes the greatest restrictions we face are the limitations we put on ourselves, often without us being consciously aware of them. Examples of this were very apparent last week in my first face-to-face Fearless Leadership® workshop (socially distanced of course) since the week before lockdown. The focus of the day was Creating Our New Normal,...