Watching great leaders in action is one of the most effective ways to enhance your own leadership. So I often ask my coach clients:
⏩ “What leader has most inspired you?”
Choose Leadership Blog
Articles from: relationship
Reboot your team
Time to reboot your team? Team coaching creates a container for a team to learn to solve challenges within their own organisation’s context.
CPR Levels of Feedback
What’s a conversation you’ve been avoiding? A conversation at work, at home, with a colleague, with your partner? Most likely, you are avoiding the conversation not just because of what you think will happen but rather because you don’t know how to achieve the outcome...
No Relationship, No Influence
On Friday, 7 October I had the privilege, with Regina Vogel and 10 other members of my Leadership Tribe, to spend a day interacting with horses, under the watchful eye of Jude Jennison. Regina gives a great account of her expereince here. One of the first things I...
Reboot Your Listening in Just 5 Days
What if summer allowed you to chill out, check out, AND deepen your relationship with those most important to you? It can. Check out this REBOOT.io course on listening,
How to Break the Resistance
99% of people believe it’s unsafe to be open and transparent. That’s why we hide all thoughts and emotions which could make us look weak. That’s why we don’t share our hopes and dreams which could be discarded. That’s why we don’t ask questions of understanding when...
The 3 Ingredients of a Great Conference
So many conferences fall short of their potential. And yet it is so simple to get a conference room buzzing with engaged participants, inspired by talks that matter, and memorable for the connections made. Let's start with Connections. Because connection always...
Curiosity Sparks Commitment
Around this time last year, we supported an Irish university’s graduate school induction programme. The participants are going to be working extensively in teams over the course of the year. We didn’t start with the traditional questions of “What are you going to...
Is Linkedin Starting to Reflect Reality?
Have you noticed that Linkedin has become more personal? Not in the Facebook way of endless pictures of cats and what you and your old high school friend had for dinner (for the record, cats are lovely and so is dinner). It’s becoming personal in a “I’m more than just...
Leaders know how to transform conflict
If you are a conflict avoider or struggle to be around one, it’s time to take a new perspective on conflict, and to make it less threatening and - yes - more fun! But first let's look at the status quo. Everyone avoids conflict, even those who are known as disruptors...
It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Co-leading helps you run further.
It works in any context.
The key to not getting hijacked by assumptions is to use clean language and share what you are hearing and making up.
2 Essentials for Leading a Resilient Team
All leadership challenges fall into two buckets:
A lack of relationship.
A lack of direction.
As a leader, your role is to provide both.
Most leaders struggle with either relationship building, or with leading from a compelling vision.
Both can be mastered.
On the other side lies a loyal and creative team that weathers the storms of uncertain times and crisis.
Curiosity Sparks Commitment
Values are what drive us, and although they are universal in the general, the flavour of each person’s values are unique to them, much like their fingerprints. When we bring curiosity to discovering who others are through their values, we build relationship, which fosters the conditions for true commitment through deep connection.
Leadership is Relationship
Leadership does not happen in a vacuum. It happens in interaction with others. The space of leadership has to be co-created by all who interact. As a leader, you have the opportunity to create a space that invites and allows all to show up as the leaders you need them to be to achieve your goals.
The Number 1 Factor for Happiness and Health
The Harvard Study of Adult Development has been running for 81 years. It started out in 1938 by following 724 men from two groups of men whose social backgrounds could not have been more different: Priviledged Harvard Sophomores and young men from an underpriviledged neighbourhood. Today, it includes the children of the initial study participants.
Here’s what’s striking: The researchers have found that happiness and health in late life depend less on genes, wealth or education than on…
Ditch Connection To Get Things Done
Lately, I have found myself under more and more time pressure. During my early morning meditations I am observing my mind racing from task to task. It’s almost comical to watch! Less funny is the tension I sense in my back when my mental chatter goes into task master. It signals the fear of dropping a ball in all the juggling.
Most of us know this building sense of time pressure. And we have different mechanisms to cope. My go-to …