Giving my shoes a break

Giving my shoes a break

Putting away my safety shoes for 2018. Many more miles walking the shop-floor this year, helping my clients to solve their business pain. Even safety shoes need a break once in a while…...
Don’t stay bottled up!

Don’t stay bottled up!

This diamond under a glass was sitting on the breakfast table at my hotel this morning. It reminded me of the metaphor we use for debriefing your talents: we are all unique and full of talent, like diamonds in the rough, full of potential. We can become our true...
Value Orientation certification

Value Orientation certification

The Value Orientation assesses a person’s level of awareness, worldviews and the organising frameworks on which their perceptions, decisions, emotional responses and behaviour are based. It can be used on an individual basis or for groups of people within an...
To Kill a Mockingbird’s leadership lesson

To Kill a Mockingbird’s leadership lesson

In Chapter 3 of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch tells Scout that “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” Well, I consider...

Is human flourishing possible in an organisation?

In their book An Everyone Culture, Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organisation, Kegan and Lahey describe how the most powerful way to unleash an organisation’s pursuit for better performance is to realise the full potential of its employees, in other...