Merging kindness with honesty in your leadership style

Merging kindness with honesty in your leadership style

Without total honesty, holding people accountability remains largely a theory. The fear, however, is that total honesty will damage relationships and alienate people—and that means disharmony and disengagement. In my experience, leaders typically feel a tug-of-war...
Using Self-awareness for organisational change

Using Self-awareness for organisational change

What do Google, General Mills, Target, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Oprah Winfrey have in common? A commitment to using self-awareness practices to create organisational change. Once associated with a highly spiritual lifestyle set apart from the mainstream,...
How insecurities cripple executive development

How insecurities cripple executive development

Several years ago a client called me and asked if I could book a session to teach a specific executive development training. I wasn’t available on the day they wanted me to come, so we tried to find another day. We went back and forth on several dates and I wasn’t...