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Stop Downloading – Start Listening

Stop Downloading – Start Listening

I recently wrote about the challenges that leaders face when attempting to listen generatively. We spend too much time downloading (to reconfirm what we already know, i.e. not really listening) or listening factually (to confirm or disconfirm what you already know,...

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Deep Listening in Change Leadership

Deep Listening in Change Leadership

It is often said that successful change in the workplace requires buy-in from the people who work there. And that, unfortunately, people resist change. However, I don’t believe for a moment that most people resist change. What most people do resist - and I include...

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Leadership 2.0: Aware, Agile, Human

Leadership 2.0: Aware, Agile, Human

To be a coactive leader means to be agile, aware, and human.

Being agile allows us to act in an instant when we sense what’s needed in a room. That room, organisation, or society will need different things at different times:

– to (re)connect to a shared vision,
– to hear the elephant in the room named,
– to get from a tired being-talked-at to an energetic co-creative meeting.

To sense what’s needed in this present moment, we …

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