There is no managing of time, really. Time management is one of those elusive leadership phrases that, when you pull back the curtain, nothing appears to be there because we can’t actually control time - it just happens.

Cohesion, when referring to a team, may be one of those words that is starting to get worn out, kind of like “authentic” is in the leadership space. But I still love it. Cohesion refers to the sense that each team member has of how connected they and others are to the whole.

What does it actually mean for a team to make a decision, or “agree” on something? Lack of clarity around decision making is all-too pervasive, so let’s unpack your options for decision rules. ‘Decision rules’ are the threshold by which a decision is deemed “made.”

I've been thinking lately about the power that comes from saying something out loud. It's one of the many reasons coaching can make a difference. As I think back in my life, the feelings about phases I was going through stick in my memory because I had voiced them to a friend, colleague, or coach at the time.

I have never really resonated with the word "balance," as in work-life balance. It brought to mind a judicial scale where the two areas that were supposed to be in balance were in opposition. For me, reality felt more integrated than that.

I am just coming off facilitating a virtual offsite for an executive leadership team where I'm reminded of how much wisdom a group inherently contains.

Last Friday night, I was cooking dinner. The news was playing on the smart speaker, the kids were playing downstairs. I was scrolling through my phone while cooking, cycling between LinkedIn, Facebook and two email accounts.

Radical empathy is the term I use to remind myself of the skill of employing empathy in the hardest circumstances. Empathy is about putting ourselves in someone else's shoes and imagining what it is like to be them within their circumstantial context. We may not naturally do this when that 'other' is on opposite sides of an issue from us.

When my daughter attended her first preschool, the almost- and barely-three-year-olds would, upon arrival, take a photo of themselves that had been glued to a magnet and place it in either the 'yes' or 'no' column to a question of the day.

I have this hypothesis that our strengths and our weaknesses are not two separate lists of characteristics. I believe what makes us ineffective — our true “weaknesses” — results from the misapplication of our strengths.