by admin | Oct 30, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership, Reflection
As Ireland enters its second week of its second lockdown, and weariness sets in, we want to offer a perspective on how we can ‘dance with the complexity’, a phrase coined by Donella Meadows. In this instance, rather than focusing on what we can’t do, we would like to...
by admin | Oct 23, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership, Reflection, Resilience, Well-being
With the explosion in noise around the concepts of resilience and well-being, one would be forgiven for thinking these were new ideas belonging to the 21st century. In fact, in both Roman and Greek mythology, Hygieia was the goddess of health. Spa treatments were the...
by admin | Oct 16, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership, Reflection
Eight years ago, I spent about ten days in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government learning about the difference between ‘adaptive’ (complex) and ‘technical’ challenges. Eight years on, Covid-19 is playing out as the most significant adaptive challenge in my...
by admin | Oct 9, 2020 | Coaching, leadership, Reflection, teams
What gets you out of bed in the morning? This is a question which has almost certainly been directed at you and which I’d imagine you have asked of others at some point. In asking or answering the question, we are typically trying to understand our daily motivation...
by admin | Oct 2, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, leadership, Reflection
In recent months, all of us have experienced some level of disruption to our lives, the scale of which will have depended on so many factors: front-line worker or not, experience of family bereavement or illness, fear of loss, requirement to juggle childcare with...
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