How to Look After Your Leader 2: Listen and Learn
We’re constantly surrounded by voices. The culture we swim in influences us through an endless stream of messages. And each of us is a leader with our own distinct voice. It takes practice to turn the volume down on all…
How to Look After Your Leader 1: What, Why?
Leaders take responsibility. Responsibilities are lining up for you to love them every day; some invited, some that just crash in anyway. Some days you love them completely, it’s awe-inspiring and rewarding. Other times the pressure has you scanning for the…
For the Love of Your Inner Critic
When you start doing something new, something out of your comfort zone, part of you is always going to show up to the party and try to stop you. You might know this part of yourself as resistance, the saboteur,…
Leadership is the Practice of Discerning What is Useful and What is Beautiful
Leadership is the practice of discerning what is useful and what is beautiful… and curating accordingly. I was fifteen when I learned of Victorian poet and designer William Morris’s view that you should, …have nothing in your houses that you…
What’s in a Chemistry Session?
Chemistry, a good connection between the coach and client, is paramount to the success of a coaching relationship. Experience and credentials are important too, but finding a coach you feel you can trust and communicate easily with is what enables…
How a Coaching Relationship Could Support You
Starting a relationship with a coach is a unique and wonderful experience but if you haven’t worked with a coach before it can be a challenge to know exactly what you want and how to find it. The wide variety of options in the…