Thought
of the month

Are you ready to lead from a new plane? Can you let go of the notion that you know? By asking questions you harvest the wisdom of the room, you open people up, you delegate fully, which frees you up to engage with your peers and those above to enable your personal growth. 

I coached groups enabling them to self-negotiate team contracts so they are set to flourish. To baseline the status quo I asked them to think of an imago of the current state of their team. My tools, rolling on the table, were colourful crayon, pens and pencils borrowed from my 3yrs old daughter and A4 plain shits of paper. 

With clarifying questions, I stayed on: think for yourselves, let’s use your creative brains; if you closed your eyes and thought of your team what image comes up.

Reflecting on how to cultivate a coaching state of being and touch, move and inspire people in every conversation. Key ingredients come to mind:

1. Self-transformation– being on a never ending journey oneself. Knowing first hand maturing rite of passage and its pains, relapses and rewards.

Most of us are brilliant at staying with our world views, opinions, behaviours, thought processes, convictions. We stick to those as if our survival depended on it … and in the past perhaps it did. To enable any movement from the past created selves and open up for what we could become …