Category: Listening

The Shadow of Psychological Safety

It is prob­a­bly inevitable that when a con­cept achieves broad accep­tance that there will be debate over what it is and what it is not. Sur­vey­ing LinkedIn and oth­er social media sources, it’s appar­ent that the con­cept of psy­cho­log­i­cal safe­ty devel­oped by Har­vard Busi­ness School’s Amy Edmond­son has both achieved this lev­el of accep­tance and… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Shad­ow of Psy­cho­log­i­cal Safety

The Power of Mea Culpa

As a coach who works with all kinds of lead­ers, it’s inevitable that a cer­tain per­cent­age don’t come vol­un­tar­i­ly. That does­n’t mean they aren’t excit­ed to work with me; it means some­body else has said they need to find some­one to work with — in some cas­es with an implied “or else.” What I find… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pow­er of Mea Culpa

Inner Worlds, Outer Actions

At the sec­ond con­ver­sa­tion with a new client, she said to me, “I real­ly got the point of what you said in our first ses­sion. It was kind of, ‘Stop whin­ing and get back to work.’ ” This was way off. I’d said no such thing. This was clear­ly the inner world of the client act­ing out… Con­tin­ue read­ing Inner Worlds, Out­er Actions

America’s Blind Spot

As a coach and con­sul­tant, the two most com­mon prob­lems I deal with are lead­er­ship blind spots and the chal­lenge of stand­ing up in one’s work and being real. Of course, there are many oth­er issues, but these are the biggest vec­tors in my prac­tice.  Since George Floyd was mur­dered, Amer­i­ca as a soci­ety once… Con­tin­ue read­ing America’s Blind Spot