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...
Funny things can happen when work moves fair and square into the centre of your home life – funny things that trigger awareness and offer new choices! Mason and his partner Allison have very different occupations, and have had no involvement in each other’s professional lives… Until a global pandemic forced them to share a...
Recently I was talking with the company directors of a bank about Fearless Leadership®. One of the directors asked ‘Is it hard for leaders to change their style? After all you are dealing with executives – senior people who have enjoyed significant success through their careers to reach the positions they are in now.’ Great...
Leading a team in a time of crisis takes more thought than usual. The environment is changing rapidly and there’s high uncertainty. Fear can be contagious. Your people are at greater risk of disconnecting and disengaging. Recent studies from neuroscience have shown that for our physical health, social connection is just as important as emotional...
Fearless Leadership® is not the absence of fear, it’s noticing the fear and using it as data. Noticing what you are afraid of and why… Noticing how you feel… Observing the behaviour of others and checking in on how they feel. In the age of COVID-19 there’s a lot of fear… Fear for ourselves and...