I listen so you can hear yourself think. 1:1 bespoke #leadership & executive #coaching. Crafting great questions to catalyse insights. More random @aineokeeffe
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Today, I am celebrating: I have a website for The Sounding Board. It's been quite the journey in the making - come and visit me in my new online home thesoundingboard.coach/
Remembering Steve Bevan’s huge contribution to thinking about work and the workplace. Working with him @WorkFoundation was eye-opening and his was pivotal to our work on what made for Good Work. He’ll be sorely missed by many
In memory of our dear friend and colleague Stephen Bevan, we've collated a wide selection of his blogs and articles that he wrote over the last 20 years. These include pieces for IES, @WorkFoundation, @WorkWithCancer, @hrmagazine and @ConversationUK. bit.ly/3RAk5h2
This resonates after a day’s coaching:
“When you hit the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on a human, they start.”
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Pausing isn’t about taking up a lot of time or disengaging from immediate tasks, but about integrating moments of contemplation daily. Moral leaders see pauses not as interruptions, but as opportunities to develop moral muscle. More in our latest report 👉 bit.ly/3SYP8Eb
There’s such beauty in each of these prompts
Insights from Donella Meadows on how to "Dance with systems" You can learn more with the full article from the The Donella Meadows Project: t.ly/gRe_f
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We live in a world where so much of the messaging we hear is about being better and doing more. What if we choose something different?
What if we decide that who we are, right now, in this moment, is enough?
Many coaching conversations I have open with “I don’t know where to begin”. But begin we do, somewhere. And usually end up with a new understanding of that point of entry. Love having stumbled over this @MargaretAtwood quote via @changeresearch
I like these prompts to inquiry in this matrix #coaching #leadership
Leadership is defined as much by how well people respond to unfolding events as how good they are at driving an agenda. Research shows senior leaders spend an average of 36% of their time in reactive mode, responding to such events. Nitin Nohria offers a matrix of types of event & how leaders should respond:
1) Normal noise: small issues likely to stay small - don't get drawn in
2) Clarion calls: significant issues likely to remain significant - be all-in
3) Whisper warnings: small issues that might become significant - nip them in the bud
4) Siren songs: significant issues that are likely to diminish over time - don't overreact. Watch and wait
He offers a three step process - sensing, sizing & responding - to help leaders react effectively to the full spectrum of unfolding events: hbr.org/2024/01/leaders-must…. Via @HarvardBiz
I’m usually fairly reluctant to recommend books to people I’m coaching, but this wonderful book Four Thousand Weeks by @oliverburkeman is a happy exception.
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“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
Emerson, born 220 years ago today, on how to trust yourself themarginalian.org/2022/09/1…
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If you aren’t sure, another 100 opinions willl only make you less sure. Ultimately you have to ask yourself.
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🧵 THREAD: How we feel matters at work. New research, now published in Management Science, shows the first causal link between #wellbeing and productivity.
Read more👉 wellbeing.hmc.ox.ac.uk/artic…
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ALT Two individuals in a call centre environment.
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The debate about job quantity vs quality, about sanctions & about the impact of work on mental health has been raging for a while now & is still current. I wrote this almost a decade ago & it remains relevant today @EmploymtStudies @ConversationUK theconversation.com/any-job-…
To 2923 and all it holds! I love the discovery of these two words that could scaffold the new year and the choices it will witness: ‘respair’ and ‘resipiecence’
A seminar from @RSAEvents on what makes for good and meaningful work featuring @Vitolae and @HilaryCottam in conversation with Sharmi Surianarain is making for an excellent follow-up to @simonwestern 's provocations for the field of #coaching this morning teapawt.net/RSAEvents/status/15729…
"Good work is hard to find. Millions of people have two family members in work and still can't afford the basics of life. And people who are in good work, can't balance that with their lives. Fundamentally, the relationship between work & life is broken." bit.ly/3LyASwB
A thought-provoking definition of the meaning of coaching from @simonwestern in the Animas conference keynote this morning: #Coaching facilitates & supports “a client’s formation process to help them live a good life & create the good society”
This comes up so often in #coaching - how to trust yourself. A lovely exploration of Emerson’s thinking, and a rabbit hole of others’ work in this arena to fall down
Emerson on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means themarginalian.org/2022/09/1…
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'...pulling oneself up by bootstraps is a romanticised idea, disregarding structural, political, and societal level inequalities.' Read more in 'The myth of meritocracy': thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/v…
The myth of meritocracy…
@celinejbs, @lizhenshawpsych, @KatieJP7, Dr @WillCurvis and the late Dr @BenMacCam @classclin on ‘pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps’.
thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/v…
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