Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

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,...

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 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...

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. ...

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...

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...