Why I was wrong about my innovation mindset
When I decided to focus my career on helping organizations innovate, I also set out to develop my “Innovation Mindset.” For me, this meant not being afraid to try new things, takings risks, and doing my best to be creative.
Polarities at play amid COVID-19
To survive and thrive in these difficult times, you have to be able to put the polarities and tensions created by this hyper volatile context on the table. Talk about them with the mindset of the learner; understand how everything can be true at the same time.
Survivor Syndrome: Tapping into the Player Within
How can leaders respond to the current challenges in a constructive way? One way is by asking people what they need to be at their best, inviting them to be players and to regain control of their situation.
Return to the new normal: Leader’s top of mind
Axialent recently hosted a live debate, Return to the new normal: Leader’s top of mind, where our two experts explored and debated global organizations’ leaders’ top of mind topics and how to prepare for the “new normal”. The live webinar covered three pressing questions: 1) What do you think the “new normal” is going to look like? 2) What challenges and opportunities do you see now emerging from this crisis? and 3) What is the implication of this new normal at a leader’s personal level?
Survivor Syndrome: Building Bridges
If “meeting people where they are” makes us feel loved and valued and can help us thrive, why do we often experience disconnection or misunderstandings instead? And how can we increase our connection to build bridges and “meet people where they are?”
Survivor Syndrome: Connecting Through Crisis
Being able to “put things on the table” and address difficult topics in an open, caring and compassionate way is a powerful way to increase connection among your employees.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Empathy and gratitude as a character-building workout
Whatever the lenses we choose to practice gratitude and empathy, they can be helpful to get some understanding of what others are living during this crisis. Realizing that can help put things in perspective – and it’s one of many ways in which we can individually do our work to avoid letting this crisis go to waste.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Who do you want to become?
One of the most tangible aspects of a crisis like the one we are living is the material damage it causes: sickness, death, lost jobs, etc. There is, however, a less tangible but also very important dimension: the net balance a crisis has on our character as individuals, and the overall impact on society as a whole stemming from this.
Culture Shift Series #2: Personal and Organizational Transformation Go Hand in Hand
Over the past 10 years, I have worked in organizational change, leadership and team development, and raising consciousness. Early on, my work focused more heavily on changing processes and systems with less emphasis on personal transformation. The thinking was if we can get these systems in place and get people to buy in and adopt them, then the change will be successful. What I noticed with this approach was a lack of sustainability in the results, so I evolved my focus to the interconnection and interdependence between personal and organizational transformation, which is the human dimension of business.