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Is your team engaging in ‘Radical Candour’?
Psychological Safety and 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...
Leadership Development
What is Leadership Development? Leadership Development refers to activities which build and expand the capacity of participants to lead, wherever their purpose, context or role. It includes the development of leadership skills and also capacities which enable a...
Psychological Safety – An Overview
What is Psychological Safety? Amy Edmonson starts her book ‘The Fearless Organisation’ with the quote by Edmund Burke: “No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear” (1756). A ‘fearless’ or psychologically safe organisation...
Leadership Coaching
What is Leadership Coaching? Effective Leadership Coaching is about supporting and challenging clients to expand their capacities to lead teams and lead change, irrespective of the context. The terms Leadership Coaching, Business Coaching and Executive Coaching are...
Grit!
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 time for renewal?
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 renewal for some of us, whilst acknowledging those working on the...
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 relating to engagement. Thank you to all those who...
What has experimentation got to do with leadership?
Experimentation 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 possibilities on your doorstep
Possibilities This is the 2nd blog of this series 'Dancing with Complexity' where we explore the possibilities 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,...
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 ‘dancing 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
Well-being 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...