How Limiting Beliefs Can Affect Your Leadership
Can you identify your limiting beliefs around leadership? Here’s an exercise to help you
Psychological Safety with Jenny Ainsworth: Positive Change Methods Podcast
This episode is full of practical tips to build psychological safety in your team, even across digital divides – with leadership and culture consultant Jenny Ainsworth.
Show notes: https://coachingleaders.co.uk/pcm28
4 More Reasons Why Leadership Coaches Shouldn’t Give Advice
This follows on from last week’s article – you can discover the first 3 reasons that leadership coaches shouldn’t give advice here. And just like in that article, I’m using the term ‘learner’ rather than the more traditional – but misleading – ‘coachee’. Let’s get straight into the rest of those reasons not to give advice
How to Reduce Misunderstandings at Work
These simple steps will stop you jumping to the wrong conclusions about others – and make it less likely that others will do the same about you One of my Practical Appreciative Inquiry students recently shared this article from the Axios website on LinkedIn: Simplest workplace principle: Assume positive intent The title pretty much gives
Is the ‘Fixing Reflex’ Cramping Your Management Style?
Why listening beats giving advice, and what coaches and managers can learn from Motivational Interviewing Recently I came across an engaging short video by Roksana Anning on the ‘Righting Reflex’. The term was new to me, but the idea resonated with me straight away, as it turns out to be something I’ve been warning my
How To Use Appreciative Inquiry Without A Formal 5D Cycle (1): Ask For Best Practice Stories
Do you want to get started using Appreciative Inquiry confidently with teams? A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry online training starts soon – click here to get the details and how to book Reading the excellent book Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement by Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, I was
Social Silences: What Isn’t Being Talked About In Your Organisation?
This week I listened to a fascinating podcast interview with author and journalist Gillian Tett about her new book Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life. The book is about what we can learn if we take useful concepts and methods normally hidden away within the fairly obscure academic discipline of anthropology,
Appreciative Inquiry: How To Flip Any Problem To An Affirmative Topic Without Ignoring Negatives (video + transcript)
Here’s a great way to define a ‘problem space’ and reframe it to a quest for what you want instead, without ignoring the negatives or being accused of brushing problems under the carpet. A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry online training starts soon – click here to get the details and how to book The beauty of
Appreciative Inquiry: A Quick Way To Define Affirmative Topics (video + transcript)
Here’s a short video (with transcript) on an easy way to ‘flip’ problem statements into affirmative topics
Video – Andy Smith On How To Use The Experience Cube To Be A More Effective Leader
Introducing Gervase Bushe’s concept of the Experience Cube (part of his Clear Leadership model) and how it can help you to be a more effective leader, develop your self-awareness, and build your ‘non-anxious presence’ Recently I was interviewed by my friend Gavin Ingham (top motivational speaker and sales guru) about the Experience Cube and how
What Most Leaders Are Getting Wrong About Empathy, And Why That’s Dangerous In Times Of Change: Part 1
The number one problem problem stopping managers from acting effectively in times of change is – empathy! No, hear us out… That sub-heading sounds like a ‘Randian’ or even sociopathic call to not care about others. It really isn’t, and here’s why. Most leaders, managers, and coaches think of empathy as a vital and necessary
Are You A Leader? Here’s The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Combat Anxiety In Uncertain Times
Here’s the most effective way you can reduce speculation and combat anxiety in your team during the coronavirus pandemic.