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COMMUNICATE
A prospective client recently asked me if there is a common thread in our coaching practice working with leaders. My simple response - ‘Communication. People want to connect at a deeper level to get through to another person or member of a team, and they...
Trust Takes Time
“Trust” typically ranks at the top among key attributes of highly performing teams. To help assess the level of trust within the team, I run an exercise that I call ‘trust continuum’ - I invite each team member to take turns standing in a place...
Vulnerable Leaders are Powerful Leaders
You may react to this title as though it is an oxymoron. How can that be true? Vulnerable and Powerful? Not possible, at least if you operate from a traditional set of management operating beliefs. But, there is a limit of how far my power will...
How to Shift Your Perspective when Chaos Shows Up
Chaos within a management team is inevitable. We define chaos as anything that takes the team out of its comfort zone. Usually when a team or individual senses that there is “chaos ahead”, they try to avoid or minimize the issue. This is completely...
10 Positive Things You’ll Find on the Other Side of Chaos
Chaos is difficult and scary - and easy to avoid. That’s why many of us choose not to confront someone with our truth. Even when I know that my truth is just my set of beliefs, opinions and perspective, it can come off as a biting, confrontational attack...
VULNERABILITY
Vulnerability has a sacred place inside the workplace. Building trust - an essential ingredient of effective teams - starts with vulnerability. And it begins with the leader taking the risk of showing his/ her humanity. As a coach, I've...
Seeing Beyond The Mess
Ritual for the last week of the calendar year is clarifying the vision for the coming year. So, given an otherwise light schedule, I started to create mine. Until I got stuck. Like flashing lights, I was distracted by the untended morass of papers on my...
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