The most important leadership skill
Deeper listening is one of the most critical skills that a leader can develop. When people feel heard, it unlocks collaboration, builds trust and allows new ideas to flow. Big…
Two monologues do not make a dialogue
Sarah Rozenthuler, CEO Bridgework Consulting, coaching a leadership team to have better dialogue What makes dialogue different to other types of talking? This article explores four different types of verbal…
Breakthrough Conversations
Getting to breakthrough by J. Rakowicz How can we deliver outstanding results – something that my group, as it operates today, cannot achieve? How can we become a true team…
How do we have effective feedback conversations?
Colleagues having a feedback conversation, Christin Hume ‘So much can happen in a single conversation’ a participant reflected at the Leading Systemic Dialogue programme I co-led last week. We were…
Talking together about big issues – Unlocking collective intelligence
What does it take for a group of people to talk about what really matters? How can a group of leaders have more collective intelligence than the individuals present? What…
Enabling better dialogue
Working with global leadership teams, I have seen the big difference it makes when people are able to talk about what really matters. With better dialogue, fresh ideas spark, collective…
A Bridge to the Future
We are living through intense, uneasy and extraordinary times. Darkness seems to be falling wherever we look, and yet there are pinpricks of light too. Never has the potential for…
A new season of great conversations
I trust this finds you well and thriving as the new season comes in. There is a real sense of a ‘new term’ starting so I wish you every success…
How to have that Big Conversation
This post explores how to lean into having an important conversation. It outlines three key strategies to help you to prepare. While there is never any guarantee how a conversation…
To have a conversation, create a container
This post explores how we can create the conditions for generative dialogue so that together we achieve more than we could alone. A “container” for a conversation provides a “holding”…
We need to talk
To live is to be related. Nothing and no one can live in isolation. We are all interdependent, and increasingly so, on this planet of nearly seven billion of us….
Why conversation matters
Conversation is centre stage in most people’s lives. We might even see the whole of life – and work – as one conversation followed by another and then another. Talking…
It’s time to talk
I wonder if the following research surprises you. In 2008 Performance Coaching International surveyed 750 managers in public, private and voluntary sectors about how they addressed poor performance in their…
What makes a good conversation?
I’m delighted to welcome you to my blog. I’m excited to be starting a conversation with you about… conversation. I believe that talking together is central in our lives. If…
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