What yardstick do you use for your leadership impact? It may seem surprising, but I still find that some leaders don’t reflect on the question of their leadership impact. Where they do, it’s often only in relation to their own immediate team. And yet, the responsibility that comes with leadership demands that we open ourselvesRead more
The heart of our inner leader I’ve had some close and rather wonderful encounters with the heart in action over recent weeks. The friend who bought me some slippers for my visit to her home because of the coldness of the tiled floors. The client who spoke about the importance of bringing heart to theRead more
The power of a new script Whatever level we find ourselves at in our organisation we can easily be seduced into a spiral of what we can’t do, change, fix, rather than focusing on what we can. In giving in to the ‘can’t’ mind-set we’re choosing powerlessness, giving away or rendering redundant our gifts ofRead more
The necessary struggle toward collective leadership There is an ever-increasing need for working together in all areas of life as we seek to play our part in transformation rather than ‘tinkering at the edges’ of change. The nature of the challenges, the complexity or ‘wickedness’ of the problem and the fact that past solutions noRead more
Prioritising inspiration Working with a group of leaders recently one of the most powerful practical activities they undertook was to recognise and acknowledge how they had inspired each other over the course of their two days together. The thing is how much attention do we pay, or time do we give to inspiration? To inspiringRead more
Living our lives in split screen I am conscious of living my life in split screen, or should I say screens…on different levels. There’s the level where everything is explicable at a rational level – a clear reason for the outcome – or it’s simply happenstance. Then there are those elevated levels, where we knowRead more
The power of the ‘new’ There is a particular energy at the start of a new year I find. For me it tends to invite an opportunity for a ‘new beginning’ along with a clearing out. Whilst this energy is also present for me at the start of the Spring, it has different quality inRead more