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...
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...
“When things get back to normal, we will …” Sorry to disappoint you – things won’t be going back to normal. They can’t. We have changed, our organisations have changed, the world has changed. There will be a ‘normal’, but we won’t be going ‘back’ to it. It will be a New Normal. Old Normal...