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Feedback improves Self-Leadership and improves Leadership
Feedback is a fantastic way to help you understand yourself. You can reflect on what you do and look for the listens that emerge but feedback will enlighten you to what you can’t see about yourself. Feedback can shed light on your blind spots. Feedback can come in...
Who’s your mentor?
In her memoir, Becoming, Michelle Obama shares how, before they even married, she was appointed as Barack Obama's mentor at the law firm they worked. We often hear Barack crediting Michelle as being the success and support behind his achievements.Some other famous...
Your inner voice matters, can you hear it?
"You idiot, Sally!" This was my most common self-talk phrase when I made mistakes. I even said it out aloud when I made mistakes. At one level it was a throw-away line but it was, until I learnt better, a message to myself that became a strong and ingrained...
Boundaries: do you know yours?
Last year we watched a house across the street be built, and now this year another house is being built next to that one. As I watch the houses go up I notice that once the framing is up, in comes the team to erect scaffolding...While a roof, walls and...
How do I spark self-leadership?
Dee Hock, Founder of VISA has been attributed with the following quote... "If you want to lead, invest at least 40% of your time in leading yourself." After I mentioned this in a recent keynote speech, someone came up to me and asked: "How do I find 40% in an...
How does confidence help or hinder self-awareness?
What do you think of this statement?: Experience and power hinder self-awareness. Mark, the Director of a company I once worked for shared with me that on his recent annual leave he underwent a leadership assessment and all the results came back that he was an...
Why are boundaries important for leadership?
I've recently injured my knee. As part of the mending process, I'm working with my Physio to reactivate my vastus medialis oblique! This VMO - inner thigh muscle - it's just above the kneecap and it helps to stabilise the kneecap when you bend your knee. Activating...
What do you value?
In a recent leadership workshop Karen reached out on private chat and asked me how she could identify her values and how her values link to understanding her value to her team and the organisation. Great questions! Do you know your values? Your values are part of...
How does a false start impact you?
Happy new year: 2021! I hope you were able to have a break over the festive season: relax, re-energise, see as many loved ones as safely as you could; got in some sleep, laughter and fun! Martin and I had been planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania this...
Are you confident at conflict?
Marketing genius Seth Godin posted a recent blog...Contradictory answers to obvious questions That's how you know that they're not obvious. When smart, committed people disagree about the answer to a question, you've found a question worth pursuing and a discussion...
Do you believe in yourself?
There once was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a climbing competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants. And the race began…..Honestly, no one in the crowd...
Language Choice
In 2019 I participated in a stand up comedy workshop which included, as a form graduation, each of the students to deliver a 5-7min set. Whether I was funny or not might still be something to debate! As part of the whole experience the students were encouraged to...