Strategic Simplicity

Welcome and Purpose  Make some connections. We talk a little bit about trends and insights, today insights more than anything else. Then we get to share ideas and approaches.  The things that we wrestle with in our work lives and in working with our teams are not unique to us, just in case you were feeling that way. We all go through it. We all go through the struggles. I find that when we have …

The Meeting After the Meeting

Trust and Psychological Safety: The Meeting After the Meeting  Presentation transcript | Barbara Stewart, Accelus Partners  Welcome  Welcome. I’m Barbara Stewart with Accelus Partners. I founded the company over 16 years ago to help leaders and teams become more effective in the workplace and to have even more fun doing the great work that we get to do.  I am delighted that you’ve joined us here today. If this is your first time, this is …

Did We Set the Meeting Up for the Real Conversation?

The formal meeting ends. Then the concern, disagreement, or question that would have helped the whole team comes out in the hallway, on a phone call, or in a private conversation afterward.  That meeting after the meeting was the focus of our most recent Conversation Among Leaders, on trust and psychological safety. As in each of these conversations, I spent the first 15 to 20 minutes offering a few definitions and observations to give us …

Strategy Is Not About Size

I was recently facilitating a board meeting that ran about as well as a board meeting can. The leadership team came organized and prepared. They stayed focused on the issues that mattered most and engaged thoughtfully with every question and idea raised. I could not have asked for much more.  The One Question I Had  Afterward, I was asked for my observations.  I shared what I had seen. The meeting was healthy, well organized, and …