The 4 attributes to access your own and others’ potential.

A CEO recently contacted me to ask if I could help with a “team building” experience to get the “team to work better together.”

Below’s a picture of my garden taken in 2017 which recently popped up in my Google feed. Next to it is my garden today, 7 years later.

Are your days filled with back-to-back meetings that waste time because decisions aren’t made and nor do they bring the team closer together?

Leaders that IMPACT bring about new possibilities. Through the relevance of their intentions, the intimacy of their relationships, they achieve results that positively affect others.

Let’s turn our attention to the second ‘instrument’, INTIMACY and start with the word’s origins. It’s derived from the Latin word, “intimus” which means ‘inner or inmost’.

Over the 25 years as an executive and team coach, I’ve come to recognise 3 things that distinguish high performing leaders and teams. They master, what I call, the three ‘instruments of leadership.’

To lead your team to flourish, you first need to allow yourself to flourish.

As 2023 draws to a close, I want to thank all the exceptional leaders and executive teams I’ve had the privilege to work with this year.

One of the most distinguishing attributes between teams that flounder and teams that flourish, is their capacity and courage to discuss the undiscussables.

Flourishing is not defined by what you do, it’s determined by how you choose to be.

A CEO recently asked me what in-team behaviours distinguish the 4 team types.

Intimacy is about emotional, not personal proximity – it’s about the permission we give ourselves to acknowledge and share our feelings, concerns, joys and aspirations.

How do you distinguish between cooperation and collaboration?

As it so happens, we all care most about the same three things.

When I raise the subject of intimacy to a group of leaders, it provokes an interesting reaction.

More often when I ask leaders, ‘how things going?’, they say, ‘I’m so busy’.

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Teams flounder and fail when they normalise dysfunctionality – when the interpersonal relationships deteriorate into a state of distrust, disrespect, and disregard.

I love the word flourish; it is energy, joy, fulfilment, and flow.