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How to Express Empathy – Avoid the Traps!
It was the Fall of 2011 and I began to cry as I was reading Brene Brown’s book I thought it was just me. I discovered that at age 42 I was unable to express empathy. This came as a huge shock. In this...
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Empathy Workshop – Results and Instructions
This past Fall I delivered a training module on Empathy as part of a day long communication and teamwork training. In this post, I will give you step by step instructions on running an empathy workshop...
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Why We Need to Care About Empathy
There is a really great RSA animated video explaining Jeremy Rifkin’s idea of the Empathic Civilization. He argues that we are neurologically wired for human relatedness and empathy through mirror...
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Understand Shame to get to Root-Cause in Your Life
In this post I am going share a book that has changed my life in deep and profound ways: Brene Brown’s I thought it was just me (but it isn’t). A good friend expresses the power clearly: “With this...
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The Power of Vulnerability
Brene Brown had an amazing discovery: The people who have love and belonging believe they are worthy of love and belonging. These people, dubbed the “wholehearted” were able to overcome the shame...
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Relatedness trumps Responsibility, Accountability
Relatedness is the heart of high-performing teams and organizations. As stated in the Agile Manifesto, focus on “Individuals and Interactions” is essential. How we relate to ourselves and others is...
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Transformation? Leaders Go First!
Let us consider an organization that wants to transform itself. i.e. to change in structure and character. A simple view would be as follows: By state, I mean the complex system that represents the...
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Lululemon – A Stellar Example of Break-Through Organizational Culture
Christine Day, the CEO of Lululemon, gave a compelling account at the Toronto Board of Trade of how Lululemon uses culture as a core competitive advantage. It is woven into the fabric of every...
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Personal Transformation is the Heart of Organizational Transformation
In a recent post I talked about the nature of transformation as personal activity and the need for leaders to go first. But, how do we as change artists and leaders go first? Traditionally we think...
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Anatomy of Peace – A Model for Communication
The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards peace. Our relationships with others form the...
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Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz) What is Temenos? Temenos is a Greek word for a transformational container, such as a cut off piece of land dedicated to a king or god. It is a contained space of spiritual...
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Create Authentic Connections with Influence Maps
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz - Temenos Series) In the course of our lives, we all encounter events that shape us, allow us to change and grow, that have made us who we are. We don’t tend to acknowledge...
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Temenos: Containers for Growing Relationships
“If we’re serious about exploring the world around us, we have to explore the world within us.” - Ken Robinson (Joint post with Olaf Lewitz - Temenos Series) The Temenos container provides a powerful...
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The Business Case for an Authentic Workplace
People are messy: they have personalities and emotions. In this post we explore how we can embrace people’s messiness for advantage rather than have it act as a drag. Default Business Model is Mixed...
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Emotional Antidote Map: Identify and Mitigate Negative Emotions
In my last post, The Business Case for an Authentic Workplace, I talked about the economic value in seeing the whole person – including their emotions. But what do we do when people actually have...
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How to Hard-Wire Happiness to Develop your Leadership Capacity
Would it be useful to learn how to hard-wire you happiness so that you can be a more effective leader? Or just a happy person? Read on as we explore the key ideas in Rick Hanson’s book Hardwiring...
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Self-Appreciation Game
At Play4Agile, Olaf Lewitz and I hosted an exploratory session on personal growth hacks. Everyone shared ideas and turned into the self-appreciation game. Purpose of the Game The purpose of the game is...
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At Agile 2014, many people were inspired by this case study so Olaf Lewitz interviewed me. Here is what happened. Slides and Highlights are here. Related posts: Transformation Case Study Highlights I...
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Reinventing Organizations for Agility
Excited to share slides describing the latest evolution of my story (at the Toronto Agile Conference). I talk about how we may dare to create environments where Agile may flourish so we have...
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Leader is the Limit for Growth
I noticed a pattern early on in my career helping organizations use Agile as a way to grow their capabilities: The Leader is the Limit for Growth. I am speaking about the most senior person involved in...
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