Learning to mentor the people who work for you is the most important skill as a leader. Your mentoring can make a huge impact on productivity as well as a myriad of other benefits.
Read MoreInquiry Method suggests that to gain a collective process and success we have to work for something larger than ourselves, we must be able to gain the perspective that we are committed to each others success and well being.
Read MoreHow do we create accountability in the workplace? The key is to develop a culture where each person is connected to their own success. As the owner or leader, it is important to know your team’s ambitions and desires and to show them that there are direct opportunities to have what they want.
Read MoreWithin your diversity of selves you can find that some of them lead, some follow, some hide out, some only come out when you have a few glasses of wine, some resent that they are not attended to, some are empowered, some are not.
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The first question I ask of a business client is: If you pull up to the parking lot of your business and sit in your car and wait, do you feel any resistance to walking in the door? What do you resist? How would you have to set up your work and your business so that you were looking forward to walking in the door?
Read MoreOur minds are constantly making up stories about what things mean. Particularly about what other people’s behavior means about us. What other people do is rarely about us, it is about them.
Read MoreWhat creates life, vitality, and productivity in any system, individual or group is the movement of energy. The biggest problems occur when there is stagnant energy, think of a log jam in a river. In all systems stagnant energy creates a back up of energy that shows up and can be identified in each individual in the form of stress, anxiety, frustration, depression, suppression, worry… These are all markers for stagnant energy.
Read MoreIn physics, at a very small scale, they have found that the act of observation impacts the outcome and the data produced. The same is true in your business.As a leader, what you notice, what you pay attention to is your most powerful leadership tool.
Read MoreAs I have spoken before, the Inquiry Leadership model approaches leadership from the idea of mentoring and developing people. In this model the primary relationship between a leader and employee is as a mentor. In this view the mentee is the hero and the leader is the supporter. I like to think of the relationship between King Arthur and Merlin.
Read MoreThere are two aspects to the Inquiry Method perspective. One has to do with our external orientation, our interaction with life. This is the externalized aspect of inquiry. When we use inquiry to interact with life, we approach the world with curiosity and wonder.
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