Creating Flow – The 20:80 Collaboration Rule
We speak about collaboration and bemoan the fact that our teams aren’t using it, but do we actually want collaboration ? Without it we can’t get work to flow inside [...]
How We Strip Greatness Away From Each Other – Living in a Culture of Smallness
We Live in a Culture of Small - No Greatness Allowed. I know this because of how I am corrected by those around me when I do something that exceeds [...]
Food for Thought – What Are We Really Saying When we Use the Phrase, “Roles & Responsibilities “?
What are we really saying when we start using the phrase ‘roles & responsibilities’ ? This is a phrase that crops up a lot, especially in the beginning of an [...]
Managing Passive Unilateral Control
What happens when as a facilitator you find yourself being challenged by a delegate who is trying their best to control the conversation and force their perspective of what is [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]