2025 is HERE!

Whether we are anxious, excited, dreadful, or optimistic, the new year has arrived. January is often the time for personal reflection, resolution, and intention setting. Organizationally, we are strategic planning and setting goals and objectives. Regardless of your methodology or approach, there is a foundational element in any personal or professional effort. And that is conversation. Whether it’s with yourself as you reflect personally on the past year or as a team in a facilitated planning session. Conversations are the basic building block of almost everything we do. The conversations we have and the ones we don’t. The ones that go well and the ones that don’t go so well. This framework from Bob Dunham, Institute of Generative Leadership highlights the value of conversations to enable results.

The idea that results are the outcome of actions (including inaction, which is an action) and action is the outcome of commitment makes sense. Can you think of a time when you focused on the results and actions and couldn’t drive change? Or have you had a manager or leader pound the table and demand better results, yet nothing changes? This occurs when we aren’t focusing on commitment. How do we know what we and others are committed to? Conversations.

How do we know if we have shared commitment? Conversations!

This month, I’ll dive into the power of conversations and the fundamental leadership shift when faced with tension and conflict; we ask, “What are the missing conversations?”

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Free Webinar: Missing Conversations

January 28th, 12 noon PST

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What I am Reading This is a fascinating read about work addiction. Many of us are hard workers; some take it a bit further and are addicted to work. This book looks at the different types of work addiction (I resonate with the Bulimic work addiction, where I procrastinate then binge on work to get projects completed). If you are an executive coach, this could be useful for you. If you are experiencing burnout or strained relationships or rely on work as your primary source of validation and satisfaction, this might be a valuable read!

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