In organisations today we spend a lot of time dealing with complex problems, trying to solve complex problems. Many of us are trying to change something and find ourselves stuck at some point and don’t know what to do next. Things feel blocked or difficult….
What could you do now that would make you even 2% more comfortable? I often ask this at the start of an online workshop, or a coaching session. My husband, Dom, is an ex Royal Marine (although ‘no such things as an ex-Marine, he laughs). …
In this blog, I wonder out loud about considering OD as a ‘healing’ role. It’s often considered as part of the helping professions. Does that include a role in healing? The definition of healing: ‘to make whole again’ and often includes a therapeutic component as…
As a consultant, brought in to help change an organisational system in some way, I can often get frustrated with that system. There’s one thing I increasingly do that helps me that. And that’s apply some of the things I do when I’m irritated or…
Some recent posts have been on the theme of detachment, and this continues that theme. I’m reminding myself here of the practices I use that help me keep a bigger perspective. Heifetz talked about the importance of leaving the dance floor and heading up to…
My work is all with people. Up close and mostly personal. And you know what’s coming. I see many people on the edge of burnout and overwhelm, not least through over-attending to the demands and needs of their job and families. At a more macro…
I’ve just started a series of interviews with senior leaders exploring love in their leadership. One of the questions I ask is a version of ‘what has shaped you to enable you to talk about love in relation to your leadership’. Or sometimes ‘how did…
‘You can’t be a hurried person and be a loving person’. Perhaps you might find that a bit too definite for your liking. Rather too black and white. But when I first heard someone say it, a large part of me stood to attention because…
Funny what the world offers you. Currently, it’s the chance to look at what ‘radical’ means to me. First, exploring love and what relationship it has to leadership and the role it could/should play in our organisations, I wrote this piece a week or so…
