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Where do you go for wisdom?
Recently I joined The Magic of Emergence led by Steve March. These three questions have stayed with me: Most people have an answer to the first two. Content is everywhere and our culture is hyper-focused on it. I think this is especially true in learning and professional development. There’s always something employees “need to know.”
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I am not neutral
How many times have you as a coach or facilitator been told to be neutral? I’ve heard it many times. I’ve said it many times. I still find myself saying it. Yet there’s an essence to it that’s missing. Almost a sadness to the word, a sense of something held back. The definition of neutrality:
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Solitude vs. Loneliness
You can feel lonely around people, but in solitude all people are within you. You can hold yourself in pure silence where nothing appears but everything is available. You are with, not apart. You are lone, but not alone. Silence wraps, doesn’t confine. A moment of solitude can transform the day, but loneliness coffee drips
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Right is right now
As someone who’s spent years training and working in Agile spaces, I’ve come to hold certain views about the world. Like how I see teams… I hold that teams are the core units of productivity in an organisation. They are more than the sum of their parts. They are living organisms. And so I have
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Adjectives to nouns to verbs
From a bad father to a good father It’s hard not to compare when using adjectives. Okay, I’m just a father. It’s hard to avoid societal expectations when using nouns. I’m here, watching, fixing, guiding, learning, parenting, befriending… Verbs adapt to the needs of the moment. Being present doesn’t have the burden of consistency. It
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How to make things faster, better, easier
The promise of coaching and facilitation is: Why? What results? Higher revenue and retention of the best-fit performers. Long-term data on coaching in organizations is starting to prove this out. The snag is if you’re doing X to get to Y, the discrepancy will be noticeable. Meaning…seeing, hearing, valuing in order for things to be
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What are you practicing?
Whether it’s conscious or unconscious, we are always practicing something. I was recently working with a group in a tight spot and found myself feeling pressure to get them through it. As I became aware of this, I chose to surrender the idea of where they needed to be in favour of being with them
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Respecting those who don’t reach out
Akshay and I recently had a conversation about how we support folks who don’t reach out for coaching or facilitation. How can we support those we’re not currently reaching? What emerged was a shift from “fixing” to “respecting”. From working “on them” to working “on us”. Our conversation went like this: Akshay: Kirsten: Akshay: Kirsten: