From square to round: Why executive meetings need to make room for growth and development
My grandfather was wise beyond my years! He was full of simple sayings to help me make sense of the big ideas. One of his favourites, ‘You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole,’ popped into my head during a recent conversation with a CEO. The CEO expressed frustration that executive meetings focused […]
Create space for individuals and teams to think and act differently when they feel overwhelmed
Living with COVID, recovery, post-COVID, and the new normal are all terms to make sense of people’s everyday experiences during these turbulent times. No matter the words, the culmination of the last few years and the current uncertainty have left many feeling overworked, undervalued, and overwhelmed. Innovation and adaptation are needed to address our complex […]
Does your development initiative have the energy to succeed?
Recently, working with a client to explore if a development program initiative would support the staff and address slipping KPIs, we had a blinding flash of the obvious. There is an interconnection between energy levels, people’s capacity to learn, the depth of learning that can occur and the appropriate leadership response! Out of this work, […]
Five mistakes that sink your leadership framework.
Over the years, I have seen many well-researched leadership frameworks developed by hard-working clients make it to the document stage but fail to be adopted. Here are five strategies to overcome the common mistakes: Simple Owned Connected Spacious Culturally coherent Simple: Often, I see frameworks trying to be everything to everyone. It might make […]