Leadership

Recently I was facilitating a workshop with a very reflective and quite introverted group. When I asked a question of the group, I got polite smiles and nodding heads—not mind blowing on the engagement scale…. And yet when I asked them to discuss the concepts we had just covered with the person next to them,

You deliver a ‘whole-staff’ update. You ask for questions or feedback. Silence! No one responds. What’s next? This was the brief I was given for a keynote I delivered last Friday on ‘Facilitating Effective Team Feedback’. My intention was to provide practical strategies that could be implemented immediately to empower real team conversations.  Thinking about questions as an art

The biggest step on the leadership journey is that first step from team member to team leader. The first leadership gig is often the hardest—new game, no rulebook. In many cases, the newly assigned leader doesn’t even know the rules have changed! My wish for ALL new leaders is to be productive and confident right from

What if your own change profile was thwarting your intention towards personal change? As a leader, what if your own unconscious motivators around change were part of the reason for change being unsustainable in your team or organisation? Are you part of the problem? Each of us has a change profile – the way we