You’ve likely heard the old chestnut “There is no ‘I’ in TEAM.” Whether said in jest, or in dead seriousness, it is simply not true. If you want to have a team which can navigate complexity and uncertainty, you need to recognise that it is filled with ‘I’s. Why?...
Change is about an external, situational event: something old stops, something new begins. Transition is about the psychological reorientation which takes place inside of us as we adapt to the change. The distinction between the two matters because this is where the rhetoric of change and psychological safety and DEI and leadership meets reality.
Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team (2002) is a classic framework to better understand why a team may not be delivering hoped for results. It is a means of diagnosing what might be wrong, and it offers remedial steps which allow a team to move forward more...
By French choreographer Lola Rudrauf, Ballerinas, Hava and Océane Delbrel. Thank you @culturainquieta Late August always makes me think about the imminent return to school. Whether I was 13, 33 or 53, it's always carried that energy. I remember always thinking ahead:...
It takes courage to be candid when saying what you think might jeopardize a relationship, cost you a job, or lose you an important client. Perhaps it’s not always necessary to speak up, and for sure your decision depends on your culture and your personality. But when...
I’m excited, because yesterday was my first in-person Toastmasters meeting in over 18 months. It feels like a lifetime. I love the biweekly meetings with my fellow toastmasters. Typically what brings people to Toastmasters is a desire to learn HOW to...
What I have experienced during many hands-on experiences of the innovation space is that most of the focus is on creating the right diversity make-up of teams, and on making the physical space conducive to creativity and play. Sometimes this leads to innovation - and...
Very often we experience resistance in others and then lazily make assumptions about why they are behaving they way they are. But why are they resisting? But what if the problem wasn’t them, but you? And what if you could do something about that?
If you haven’t buried your head in the ground for the past eight weeks or so, you’ve experienced leadership that you don’t often see. Epidemiologists are leading many countries’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic without authorityin a constantly shifting context,...
Organisations use a plethora of team performance tools, all of which promise to help them crack the code of building the perfect team. The tools usually focus on skills and abilities on the one hand, and personality types and preferences on the other.
In my Design Thinking journey, I’ve been trained in how to put together promising innovation teams. Diversity enables a team to explode with creativity and shape breakthrough products and services in a short time: mix …