Leading Well
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The calm before the storm
A recent experience this week reminded me how nature is such a useful guide and a metaphor for behaving and learning.
The need to lead well
As an Executive Coach across many industries, I often get asked what trends I’m noticing in my work. In the past I would see or hear themes within industries but consistency of themes across industries was rare. Today I’m noticing commonalities.
Leading in Step with Nature
What today’s leaders are faced with in leading their organisations through our current unpredictable, uncertain, pandemic impacted state requires elevated leadership capability, presence and mindset. However, it’s still striking how ill-suited stock standard leadership principles, skills and theories are to meet today’s leadership challenges.
Evolving leadership
As we see so much unprecedented change on our planet we are faced with imagining new futures for ourselves, our families, our communities and society as a whole.
Be ready to embrace the magic of Hybrid Working
The work from home genie is out of the bottle thanks to COVID and lockdowns. But how do you embrace the magic of hybrid working and make it right for your business?
Not all endings need to be sad
The feelings associated with a poorly managed exit can create trauma for those who leave and for those who stay.
Blind spots in executive coaching
Recently at the end of a coaching session with a senior executive, I did a check in on how he was finding the coaching program. What he said next stuck in my head.
Ports: places for boats and crew to unload, reflect, re-gather and re-energise
You may think reflection is limited to thinking about the past, but we also encourage prospective reflection to chart the near future.
In Acceptance….
It is when we stop over-thinking everything, that we have the potential to reap our conscious and unconscious wisdom and simply let it happen!