I want to share with you a survey I put together to help teams talk about their relationships with one another and take steps to improve them. You can download it as a pdf here. This material first came to mind about sixteen years ago. I happened to be working with the City Council for… Continue reading Team Trust Levels Survey
Category: Self-Knowledge
On Vertical Collaboration
I’ve been thinking lately about “vertical collaboration.” Vertical collaboration is what happens between people when there is a reporting relationship of some kind and a power differential. Collaboration is often associated with equal power and status, a “peer group” of some kind. But collaboration is also a skill preeminently to be mastered between the layers… Continue reading On Vertical Collaboration
Your Sweatshirt
It’s possible that the main job of a leader is to become free of yourself. Because if you cannot do that then you are destined to play out over and over only the ways of being that you already know. These ways may certainly be a gift in one sense, a strength that comes from… Continue reading Your Sweatshirt
Living Into Being
This is the last of five posts on finding freedom from roles and life-scripts that interfere with effective leadership and personal fulfillment. If you like, you can hear me read this post. The other posts are: The Journey of Unlearning Leading is Not Acting: What Roles Do You Play? The Cost of the Script Discerning Untruth: Creative… Continue reading Living Into Being