Relatedness is the heart of high-performing teams and organizations. As stated in the Agile Manifesto, focus on “Individuals and Interactions” is essential. How we relate to ourselves and others is central to creating and maintaining effective and valuable systems. There are many mental frames that are used to discuss organizational culture and performance.
Brene Brown had an amazing discovery: The people who have love and belonging believe they are worthy of love and belonging.
In this post I share a book that has changed my life in deep and profound way: Brene Brown’s “I Thought it Was Just Me (but it isn’t)”.
There is a really great RSA animated video explaining Jeremy Rifkin’s idea of the Empathic Civilization. He argues that we are neurologically wired for human relatedness and empathy through mirror neurons: we are soft-wired for sociability, attachment, affection and companionship – we have a deep drive for belonging.
This past Fall I delivered a training module on Empathy as part of a day long communication and teamwork training. In this post, I will give you step by step instructions on running an empathy workshop as well as share some interesting results from my session.
The biggest challenge with Empathy is that we block our connection with another person’s emotions as a self-protection activity. Once we overcome this we can really connect with people.
I can say without a doubt that this video change my life. It allowed me to explore who I am and set a path in motion for learning growth that […]
The hierarchy is at the very center of our lives. We have experienced it in our school years and later when working in organizations. It’s existence and function is tacit […]
This is a powerful framework to understand organizational change efforts. It discerns between tactical, strategic, and cultural levels.
Here is an infographic on “what is a team?”. I created it to help explain the concept in an upcoming workshop. Now I think it will be part of my […]
This post is about some important thoughts on working with organizations that I learned from Michael Spayd, co-founder of the Agile Coaching Institute, some time ago. A key part of […]
(Joint post with Pascal Pink) I was extremely privileged to share a day with Pascal Pinck and learn his “playbook” as a powerful influencer. His lessons span mental models, coaching […]
