The Power of Deliberate Practice: Your Path to Leadership Mastery
In the quest for leadership excellence, we often ask: Are great leaders born, or are they made? While natural talent plays a role, landmark research reveals a powerful truth – the path to exceptional leadership is paved with deliberate practice. Discover how this systematic approach can transform your leadership journey.
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Workshop: The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures – Unleashing Creativity to Solve Complex Business Problems
Are you charged with bringing people together to solve a problem or lead a change? Is part of your role trying to get the ‘best’ out of people and teams? Would you like to energise people to adapt and evolve their current ways to become more innovative?
Collective Leaders Express Themselves Openly, Respectfully And With Full Authenticity
Adept collective leaders are present and aware of self, those around them, and the system they are a part of. They are able to express themselves openly, naturally, respectfully and fully authentically to nurture systemic health and transformation.
The most important words any leader can say
Vulnerability loops We all know that trust is the key to group cooperation, but how do you create it? The answer is vulnerability loops: moments when group members candidly share weakness with each other —like what went wrong, and how you might improve next time. Make Sure Leaders Signal Vulnerability First and Often Though we […]
Is the quality and speed of feedback helping or hindering you leading a high-performing team?
As a full-time professional executive coach one of the recurring themes for my coachees is the need for them to have uncomfortable conversations with team members about their performance. I often wonder if leaders spent more time creating an effective feedback culture, processes and dialogue their need to have uncomfortable conversations would significantly reduce. In this blog […]
Do you focus on your strengths?
I attended a conference in Atlanta, Georgia over the weekend, from the comfort of my home in Lyttelton. The ICF Advance Science of Coaching conference was available through live video streaming over the internet. Several of the presenters spoke of the research findings around strengths. Strengths are our natural capacities – when we use them, […]
