How To Receive Feedback With a Growth Mindset

How To Receive Feedback With a Growth Mindset

The Leadership Practices Inventory 360° created by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner is an assessment tool to measure leadership effectiveness. Team members are asked to rank their leaders on 30 behavioural statements. Of the 30, the worst scoring one of all is, ‘Asks for...
Owning your organisational shadow

Owning your organisational shadow

Owning your organisational shadow   Carl Jung, one of the fathers of modern western psychology, spoke of the ‘shadow’ in relation to our capacity to hide from ourselves and deny our own behaviours, thoughts, feelings and beliefs. We keep them in the shadow of our...
Why Great Leaders Need Self-awareness Training

Why Great Leaders Need Self-awareness Training

Developing as a leader is about cultivating our inner strength to stay true under fire, to ask questions we don’t know the answer to, to stay balanced when our world is turning upside down, to stay kind and respectful when the heat of anger and frustration are...
Ensure team accountability with mindful agreements

Ensure team accountability with mindful agreements

Common Patterns in Leadership During my years of leadership consulting I have met far too many leaders who are acting either from a fear-based niceness or with a heartless ‘professional’ aggression. They have not mastered mindful compassion, nor are they enabling...
Using self-awareness to transform ourselves

Using self-awareness to transform ourselves

Understanding self-awareness and its role in leadership development Great leaders have the capacity to stay true under fire, to stay calm balanced when they are surrounded by chaos, to stay kind and respectful when feeling angry or frustrated, to take responsibility...