by Michael Bunting | Jan 9, 2023
Harvard organisational behavioural scientist Amy Edmondson first introduced the construct of ‘team psychological safety’, which she defined as a ‘shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking’. It’s a shared assumption...
by Michael Bunting | Dec 14, 2022
My very first 360° assessment group feedback session with a leader and his team was a steep learning experience. In these group feedback sessions, our job is to help maintain psychological safety in the room in various ways. But given this was my first time, some...
by Michael Bunting | Nov 15, 2022
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...
by Michael Bunting | Nov 8, 2022
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 mind through defence mechanisms such as...
by Michael Bunting | Oct 21, 2022
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...
