Changing, Ourselves
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Reflections on personal leadership
In my role as a coach, I often ask managers “What’s it like to be led by you?” It’s a simple question, encouraging the manager to place themselves in the position of their team members and hopefully generates reflection and...
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Life in the Pod
Imagine a world… Your team is a small, autonomous unit, a “pod” with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds. Your manager spends most of their time attending to human relationships, coaching, trust and communication. They’re no longer the gatekeeper of rules...
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Celebrating Leadership: What do you notice?
At a recent leadership network session, a reflective question emerged: “What more can we do to recognise and celebrate leadership?”. This led to a conversation about what great leadership looks like, and how we notice it in action. Leadership can...
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We’re Better Together
I was at a training course recently and in one of the breakout discussions we were asked to identify a time when we had worked in a great team, and to explore exactly what made it great. We came up...
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Feel the change
Recently, a colleague took a few of us from the team on a Deep Time Walk. It was a long walk, with stops that gave us some brilliant information about the state of the planet and somehow brought it all...
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Dear Co-pilot.....
A while ago my manager, Ed, set us a challenge – what’s the most creative way you could use AI? I’d been scratching my head on this one – using it to draft outline lesson plans is pretty basic. But...
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Bringing my best
I’m sure we can all relate to a time when we, a colleague, or family member have been away from the workplace for a while. Whatever the circumstances, life events that pull us away from the workplace can mean there’s...
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Warm Communities?
We have an air source heat pump. We were faced with the need to change from our oil system a little under a year ago when the oil tank was condemned. We needed to choose whether we were going to...
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Where do I begin?
The Christmas break is just around the corner, and along with anticipation of the feasting, presents, celebrations, joy and sparkle, I confess I feel a bit exhausted at the mere thought of it all. Alongside the nourishment and joy I...
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Sit down and listen: I’m talking about control
“Theme of the month: Co-ordination and control mechanisms.” So began this month’s email from the European Organisation Design Forum. Note to self: renew subscription because these guys always bring interesting stuff, like: “Control in organisations. A phenomenon nearing extinction in...
