What does it mean to be a compassionate and courageous leader?
Compassion and courage is mobilised when the leader engages competently with their three centres of intelligence: 1.knowing (analytical): competencies include cognitive and intentional attunement, mindfulness, courage calculation, entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial zest 2.being (relational): competencies include emotional literacy, self regulation, sitting in the fire, cultivating restfulness 3.doing (instinctual): competencies include social responsibility, advocacy, negative capability, perseverance To lead […]
Coaching for Growth
Coaching for personal and professional development is not merely about goal attainment. Rather, it is a growth process, best served via the metaphor of a marathon rather than a sprint. Working with a coach can help us grow, mature and build our capability; finding new ways of being. To borrow another metaphor, coaching supports us […]
The Courage to Be Real
I came across this TED video about 6 months ago and I think it is brilliant. Ash Beckham talks about how we all have a closet to come out of and that although they feel safe that a closet is no place for a person to live. Ash offers us three ‘Pancake Girl’ principles: Be […]
Open Space Technology
Collective Possibilities recently participated in the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) 2009 Annual Conference, with a Taste of Open Space Session. Using Open Space Technology (OST) was a great way for participants at the conference to interact, have their say and be actively involved in the conference. Open Space allowed for a break from listening […]
Shared leadership has benefits for everyone
Shared leadership is about empowering people to take leadership positions in their areas of expertise and moving outside of more formalised structures that can inhibit shared contribution. For instance, at a company that creates user interfaces for web design, the role of CEO was too extensive for one leader. As a result, it was split […]
6 Steps to communicating with more compassion
Lindy has been leading a research project for her doctoral studies in partnership with Leadership Victoria that seeks to understand how compassion and courage support a leader to become more effective. Whilst it is too early to reveal any research findings, we want to share with you things we are learning along the way that […]
Have you trained your courage muscle lately?
The idea of Courage often conjures up the image of the impulsive heroic act, for instance, saving a person from a life threatening incident without thinking of personal safety. Courage in the workplace is rarely impulsive and is usually a thought out decision, a considered risk. Great leaders train themselves to make high-risk decisions over […]
Finally, an Enneagram questionnaire…
We are excited to offer the Integrative Enneagram Questionnaire (IEQ) which can provide an individual or a team report that includes: Centre of Expression (head, heart, gut) Enneagram Type profile Wings 27 Instinctual Subtypes Level of Integration/ Level of Development 6 dimensions of stress or strain The report from this questionnaire provides a key to […]