Somewhere between uncertainty and motivation is psychological safety. As a leader, you need to be aware of this fine balance where any focus on peoples accountability for excellence is not being negatively impacted from fear to talk with each other, or yourself,...
You’re faced with a barrage of responsibilities each day—work to do, emails to answer (oh look, another one just came in!), errands to run, family commitments, cleaning, cooking ... the list goes on forever. All those demands on your time and energy leave you with...
Ethics are one of the key secrets to the success factor of effective leaders. The best leaders exhibit both their core values and their ethics in their leadership style. Hence our ethics and values are far more visible than some realise as they are lived through our...
It's still just the beginning of 2019 and an appropriate time if you haven’t already, to ask yourself ‘what do I want to achieve this year?’ For the longest time I assumed it was normal practise for most people at the end or beginning of a year, to take stock and...
Synchronicity is a mysterious and funny affair. Not too long ago, I attended an Enneagram Coach training, where Portia Nelson’s fabulous poem was referenced - ‘The Hole in my Sidewalk’. I was reminded all over again of its brilliance and relevance, in that no matter...
Many of you have been introduced to the Enneagram through the Beyond Thinking progamme and will recall what invaluable insight you found when making the connection between your personality and core underlying fears. The fact is, we are more fixated on the fear of the...
Every month Colin and I agree on a topic and when it came to choosing this one I made the big mistake of thinking it would be easy to write about. I mean doesn't everyone know what a belief is including myself? Well, it turns out it was not so easy and in fact...
The end of the year is near! It is often at this time, we reflect on what we have “become” and how we have changed as a result of the collective experiences through the year. Join Colin as he shares a story about change and how we can use this to reflect on how we...
What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits -- sometimes because our culture demands it of us, and sometimes because...
So what is this thing called personality which distinguishes our uniqueness from common humanity? I found the most succinct response to this question in the recommended reading link at the end of this blog. ‘The bottom line is it depends upon your perspective on human...
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