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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Purpose and Presence
What gets you out of bed in the morning - or what's your purpose? This is a question which has almost certainly been directed at you and which I’d imagine you have asked of others at some point. In asking or answering the question, we are typically trying to...
A moment to reset?
In recent months, all of us have experienced some level of disruption to our lives, the scale of which will have depended on so many factors: front-line worker or not, experience of family bereavement or illness, fear of loss, requirement to juggle childcare with...
