Coach: help people rethink and change the way they go about doing things
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about team safety and the curse of organizational silence. That situation where people in all kinds of jobs, all kinds of organizations, all kinds of situations, reach a point where they want to say, “Enough.” They have the same uncomfortable realization: “I should do something about this.” Yet many remain silent. They don’t bring ideas forward.
Imagine a workplace where everyone engages and contributes their full intellectual capacity, a place where people are happier and healthier because they have more control over their work — a place where everyone is a leader…. All of this is possible, but not with the current leadership paradigm.Our world’s bright future will be built by people who have discovered that leadership is the art of enabling. The steps getting there are evolutionary. The result will be revolutionary.
I have been doing some reading and research on OKRs – to support the teams I serve in the role of Coach. In the process, I came across a nice introductory pub from O’Reilly and wanted to share a particular passage about celebrating wins that really stood out for me: …
If you’ve read my tag-team post w Tanner, you’ll remember Ed, the command and control boss. Ed now has a choice: embrace change to become an effective leader of his team (and perhaps ultimately a change agent) or find a new C2 gig. The first path is going to be quite …
A couple of weeks ago Tanner Wortham and I decided to guest post on each other’s blog. Tanner was kind enough to let me go first – and the results are here on Spikes and Stories “Retro Technique: Building Team Empathy” Then it was “Tanner’s turn.” He pinged me via …
