Self-Awareness without Self-Management is Useless

Self-Awareness without Self-Management is Useless

I was recently reviewing some notes from a session with the incomparable Dr Linda Folan where she stated that in exploring leadership, self-awareness without self-management is useless. This is indeed a bold statement that and one that resonated incredibly strongly...
Are you modelling learned helplessness?

Are you modelling learned helplessness?

I recently sat in a room with 10 managers, in an organization where the Executive Leadership Team (Directors and CEO) are encouraging their management team to be effective leaders in the workplace and in modelling healthy work-life balance. An intensely emotional...
Equanimity and impeccability

Equanimity and impeccability

As leaders we don’t know, at any given time, the impact we are having on others.  We are constantly being observed and judged.  When someone has asked us to listen to them however, we must turn up for them with equanimity. That is, psychological stability and...
Gaining trust through listening

Gaining trust through listening

The words listen and silent contain the exact same letters.  This can remind us that being silent means more than ‘just not talking’.  In personal interactions we need to ensure our mind is silent as well as our mouth!  When we listen well, we convey a silent message...
Learning leadership

Learning leadership

Leadership skills can be incredibly difficult to develop because when we look back historically at leaders who have defined their nations and generations, they seem to possess natural attributes that ‘just make them great’.  In modern times however, leadership has its...