The Leadership Skill No One Talks About It wasn’t my decision to make.Not my challenge to meet.Not my ‘life gristle’ to chew. And I think I’d have rather it was! A close friend was navigating a challenging situation at work and it wasn’t going well.The other leader...
How to Lead with Ease Who we are is how we show up. In the big moments and the little ones; the moments that matter and the moments that slip by unnoticed. Who are you in each of these moments? With colleagues and peers? Family and friends? Your nearest and dearest?...
The Upside of Constraints… You can’t always get what you want… It’s a reality of life, and whether we like it or not, there are often constraints in the world that we have to work with. When we rail against the system or the reality in front of us, we make and keep...
Letting go to level up I was so angry… furious No. More than that, I was embarrassed. I felt humiliated. I was in a high level meeting of peers that I respected and admired. In these kinds of situations it’s not often that I will raise a hand and put my voice...
How to communicate signal not noise “We’re shouting at each other, with closed minds and an attachment to ideas, experiences and beliefs. Is it any wonder there’s so much defensiveness and division?” This was just one of the golden nuggets of wisdom that conscious...
Why leaders need to chew before they swallow One of my favourite books to read to my children, as they were growing up, was “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” by Michael Rosen. A classic children’s picture book, it tells of a family, going out on an adventure to find a bear...
