Servant Leadership Anti-patterns (If I am not Right, I am Incompetent)
It is often hard to explain the shift out of unilateral control and into Servant or Humble Leadership. I am finding that using anti-patterns helps. This is one that I [...]
Leadership Anti-patterns (Using Servant Leadership to Win)
I had an interesting experience the other day that highlighted an anti-pattern for Servant Leadership that I had not seen before. The context was me expressing a concern around a [...]
Mastery Moment – Servant Leadership Thinking Anti Patterns (Being Right)
There are a number of thinking patterns that compromise Agility and collaboration. One of the more common is the need to be right.Think about it. How often do you find [...]
Learning Minute – Supporting Saying No (Agile Decision Making)
One of the aspects of a shift to Agile that is more difficult to live is transferring decision making powers to teams.This is especially so when priorities change and we [...]
Plan the Dive & Dive the Plan UNTIL
As most of you know, I hold the Guinness Word Record for the Deepest Dive by a Woman – which at first glance has nothing to do with Agile or [...]
Mastery Moment – Creating Trust
We talk about creating Trust a lot, but what does it mean ? What are the characteristics of Trust ?Ontological coaching describes trust using 5 aspects, which make up the [...]
Conversations from Servant Leadership Meetup
It is always interesting to be in a conversation with people who are committed to bringing Servant Leadership to life. If you aren’t part of the JHB Servant Leadership Meetup’s, [...]
Learning Minute – Reverse Shadowing
How do you create teams that are cross-functional ? How often are we sitting with key resources who are the only one’s who know how to do something and don’t have [...]
Mastery Moment – How Do You Get a Plant to Grow ?
Most of us at some time have had a bash at keeping a plant alive. How do you do it ? When it dies, what do you do ? Do [...]
The Lad Who Never Spoke (Experiences from Servant Leadership)
Every Servant Leadership the group splits out into those who talk and those who don’t. At the end of the first scenario it becomes obvious who is who and we [...]