Leading Teams

Diversity is good right? That’s the prevailing wisdom. Increasing gender diversity at the leadership level is the stated aim of many large organisations. Numerous studies have confirmed the value of gender diversity. A Gallup study# of more than 800 business units from two companies found that gender-diverse business units had better financial outcomes than those

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

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