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This month’s, and maybe beyond, topic is empathy: What is it? How does it contribute to psychological safety? How do you develop it? etc.. Today I would like to talk more about how to build [...]

Building on my last article on empathy, today’s is an impulse piece on empathy and building a psychologically safe environment. Psychological safety means: ‘a believe that there will [...]

The last few weeks and months have left me, next to feeling slightly lost for words, with an even deeper conviction that empathy is a key skill for humans: in life, in leadership, and in [...]

The underdog, according to Collins English Dictionary is the party ” in a competition or situation is the person who seems least likely to succeed or win.” We all love a good underdog story don’t [...]

What did you want to be when you were a teenager? When I was 14 I decided I wanted to build airplanes. Originally I wanted to fly airplanes, the big Jumbo jets, that is; but I had been informed [...]

Unwritten systemic laws – does that sound strange to you? Yet we are intuitively aware of them, and they become clear immediately when boundaries are crossed. For example: if there is no balance [...]

Or not! I am sure you have read umpteen articles about motivation, some of which maybe on this website. Most time of my time spent with leaders focusses on what they would like or think they [...]

A short while ago I introduced the inner team and how it can support introspection and self-leadership in difficult and ambiguous situations. Today I would like to go through an example with you [...]

As promised in my post on delegation poker, here comes an article on delegation and what steps you can do to make sure that you delegate successfully.  If the image here represents how you feel [...]

Debating whether to increase the level of self-organisation in your team? Maybe your team have been keen to take on more responsibility and you haven’t been sure how to transfer it? Or you want [...]