By Barbara Stewart, PCC, ACTC | Accelus Partners The decision should have been made two levels down. Instead, it came back to you. Again. Maybe it was framed as a question that needed your judgment. Maybe it arrived as a conflict between two managers who could not resolve it themselves. Maybe it was work that should have moved forward but stalled because no one was willing to own it without your sign-off. Whatever the form, the pattern is the same: your team is producing …
There is a premise at the center of my work: we can only see others as clearly as we are willing to see ourselves. I didn’t arrive at that through a book or a training. I arrived at it the way most things worth knowing arrive: slowly, through experience, through the people I’ve had the privilege of working with, and sometimes on a walk the morning after. That’s exactly what happened this time. Let me explain. My younger self had a whole lot to …
By Barbara Stewart, PCC, ACTC | Accelus Partners We were about to run the first session of a new leadership development program, and the room was going to be full of people who may or may not have known each other but definitely didn’t know us. That mattered more than the agenda did. Before we could ask this group to do anything real together (solve a problem, disagree productively, own a decision) they needed a reason to actually engage instead of …
