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Courage: What it is and isn’t
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...
The dos and don’ts of courage in an executive team
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:...
Banishing the dangerous limitations you put on yourself
Sometimes the greatest restrictions we face are the limitations we put on ourselves, often without us being consciously aware of them. Examples of this were very apparent last week in my first face-to-face Fearless Leadership® workshop (socially distanced of course)...
The one lesson from Harvard I can’t ignore
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...
We won’t be going back to normal! (And what do to about it)
“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...
You are different at work (and I don’t like you as much)
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...
Is it hard for leaders to change their style?
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...
6 ways to keep your team together when you are apart
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...
We need Fearless Leadership® now more than ever
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...
Warning: The strengths of your leadership team could be your downfall
Just like an individual leader has a personality, a leadership team has a personality too, with strengths and weaknesses. The team strengths are assets we can leverage to support our success and the success of the whole organisation. There is a risk that when we dial...