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The Art of Fearless Conversation – 1st Podcast of a New Series Coming Soon…
Improving Psychological Safety enables Fearless Conversations… a key foundation of high performing teams. Join us for our new podcast series which explores this territory… coming soon.
Is your team engaging in ‘Radical Candour’?
The terms ‘psychological safety’ and ‘radical candour’ don’t appear to sit comfortably with each other in one sentence. There is a sense that psychologically safe teams are nice and cozy place to work and a long way from a term like ‘radical candour’ (a term coined by...
Grit!
Yesterday was a special day. It seems like days run into each other these days, as many activities and life as normal has stopped during Covid lockdown. Yet, this weekend the Irish ladies hockey team had the opportunity to play the reigning Olympic Champions in a...
A time for renewal?
As we draw the 'Dancing with Complexity' series to a close, we would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas. It obviously won't be the usual one, but hopefully it will be an opportunity for rest for some of us, whilst acknowledging those working on the front line who...
How Companies Have Maintained Employee Engagement Scores in the New Virtual World
This is the 5th of 6 blog posts as part of the series 'Dancing with Complexity'. This blog was authored by Gerry, capturing the results of a survey on the experience of teams in the virtual world this year. Thank you to all those who contributed to this article. In...
What has experimentation got to do with leadership?
This is the 4th blog in the 'Dancing with Complexity' series. This one is about how we can experiment around the edges to make progress on the challenges we face. It can even be a little fun as we design experiments and bring curiosity as we explore the outcomes. As I...
What I learned from my puppy about leadership and self-awareness!
When conceiving this series of blogs, a number of themes came to mind, one of them being what we can learn from animals at this time. We happened to get a puppy in August, so this blog wrote itself, based on the first-hand joys and tribulations of having this new...
What’s possible on your doorstep?
This is the 2nd blog of this series 'Dancing with Complexity' where we explore the possible instead of the forbidden in these times. This blog was written by a friend of Gerry’s - Gerard O’Rourke and it focuses on wellness and the outdoors, especially in the context...
Gratitude – A big impact from a simple practice
This is the first of a series of blogs from our ‘ Dancing in Complexity’ series. The idea being that we endeavour to change our lens of our current situation in lockdown to look at what’s possible instead of what’s forbidden. Gratitude is one of a number of themes...
Dancing with Complexity – an invitation
As Ireland enters its second week of its second lockdown, and weariness sets in, we want to offer a perspective on how we can ‘dance with the complexity’, a phrase coined by Donella Meadows. In this instance, rather than focusing on what we can’t do, we would like to...
Well-being and Resilience
With the explosion in noise around the concepts of resilience and well-being, one would be forgiven for thinking these were new ideas belonging to the 21st century. In fact, in both Roman and Greek mythology, Hygieia was the goddess of health. Spa treatments were the...
Complexity and Curiosity
Eight years ago, I spent about ten days in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government learning about the difference between ‘adaptive’ (complex) and ‘technical’ challenges. Eight years on, Covid-19 is playing out as the most significant adaptive challenge in my...
The Art of Fearless Conversation – 1st Podcast of a New Series Coming Soon…
Improving Psychological Safety enables Fearless Conversations… a key foundation of high performing teams. Join us for our new podcast series which explores this territory… coming soon.
Is your team engaging in ‘Radical Candour’?
The terms ‘psychological safety’ and ‘radical candour’ don’t appear to sit comfortably with each other in one sentence. There is a sense that psychologically safe teams are nice and cozy place to work and a long way from a term like ‘radical candour’ (a term coined by...
Grit!
Yesterday was a special day. It seems like days run into each other these days, as many activities and life as normal has stopped during Covid lockdown. Yet, this weekend the Irish ladies hockey team had the opportunity to play the reigning Olympic Champions in a...
A time for renewal?
As we draw the 'Dancing with Complexity' series to a close, we would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas. It obviously won't be the usual one, but hopefully it will be an opportunity for rest for some of us, whilst acknowledging those working on the front line who...
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