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...
This time last year, I was lucky enough to be attend Harvard University and complete The Art and Practice of Leadership Development Executive Program. At the time, I blogged about the 5 leadership lessons I learned. Julie Garland McLellan invited me via LinkedIn to “look back in a year’s time and see how these lessons have evolved as your practice of implementing...
“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...
Do you recognize your leadership team in one of these three teams? 1. Simon’s Polite Exec When I first met Simon, he was leading an executive team where each exec was very ‘polite’ to one another. Discussions on important issues were usually brief, dissenting views were not surfaced, and ‘consensus’ was reached fairly quickly....
If I were to ask you about your organisation’s values, how would you respond? Can you remember them? Do you endorse them? Do you live them? How well do they align with your own values? Recently a client was talking about the challenge of people ‘weaponising values’. This is not a term I had heard...
Silence is an underrated leadership tool. Of course, I am not talking about the kind of ‘hostile silence’ that intimidates people into saying something! This is a silence that gives people time to think and opens up the conversational space for something richer than top of mind thoughts. Silence can be more challenging for extrovert...