This post is a video interview that explores the experience of using the Thinking Environment to support personal and professional development. It's a pretty relaxed conversation with two people I know well. I hope you enjoy it!. https://youtu.be/YeV0D27wTUc If you...
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Just get out of the way!
This post is a reflection on my experience of using the Thinking Environment to get out of the way, and in doing so, support others to realise their potential. In the last few years, I’ve learned a bit about the enneagram (a personality model, which you can find more...
Are you a truly thoughtful leader?
n this blog I share a conversation with a CEO and Financial Planner about clearer thinking, and the role it plays in decision making and Leadership. Financial Planning firm Emery Little have been working on becoming a Thinking Environment business for a number of...
Am I thinking? Or am I overthinking?
This post examines my relationship with overthinking, how it really gets in my way, and how a different kind of thinking can help me. I have an amazing friend (in fact I have a few, I’m very lucky!) but this one told me a story over Christmas that has both inspired me...
A system of safety?
This post concludes my series and draws some conclusions on the Thinking Environment as a System for psychological safety. Over the last few years I have watched as we have embraced the Thinking Environment within our Organisation. Slowly but surely, it has become the...
The Thinking Environment – a view from the inside
During 2020 and 2021, the Thinking Environment became core to the culture at Emery Little. It supported the move to virtual working, and became core to the culture, ensuring team engagement through a period of significant change. Hear the story from the inside in this...
What are you assuming?
This post is part of a series of blog posts where I consider each component of the Thinking Environment individually, in order to better understand the relationship between the Thinking Environment and psychological safety. In this post, I focus on the component of...
Where’s your safe place?
This post is part of a series of blog posts where I consider each component of the Thinking Environment individually, in order to better understand the relationship between the Thinking Environment and psychological safety. In this post, I focus on the component of...
Transforming Wyatt Earp
How the Thinking Environment has been key to restoring my sanity! Back in 2012, I was frazzled. I was the person with the answers …. so people asked. I had little time or space in my working day to breathe and nip to the loo, let alone think! I was indispensable, and...
Just get out of the way!
This post is a reflection on my experience of using the Thinking Environment to get out of the way, and in doing so, support others to realise their potential. In the last few years, I’ve learned a bit about the enneagram (a personality model, which you can find more...
Are you a truly thoughtful leader?
n this blog I share a conversation with a CEO and Financial Planner about clearer thinking, and the role it plays in decision making and Leadership. Financial Planning firm Emery Little have been working on becoming a Thinking Environment business for a number of...
Am I thinking? Or am I overthinking?
This post examines my relationship with overthinking, how it really gets in my way, and how a different kind of thinking can help me. I have an amazing friend (in fact I have a few, I’m very lucky!) but this one told me a story over Christmas that has both inspired me...
A system of safety?
This post concludes my series and draws some conclusions on the Thinking Environment as a System for psychological safety. Over the last few years I have watched as we have embraced the Thinking Environment within our Organisation. Slowly but surely, it has become the...
The Thinking Environment – a view from the inside
During 2020 and 2021, the Thinking Environment became core to the culture at Emery Little. It supported the move to virtual working, and became core to the culture, ensuring team engagement through a period of significant change. Hear the story from the inside in this...
What are you assuming?
This post is part of a series of blog posts where I consider each component of the Thinking Environment individually, in order to better understand the relationship between the Thinking Environment and psychological safety. In this post, I focus on the component of...
Where’s your safe place?
This post is part of a series of blog posts where I consider each component of the Thinking Environment individually, in order to better understand the relationship between the Thinking Environment and psychological safety. In this post, I focus on the component of...
Transforming Wyatt Earp
How the Thinking Environment has been key to restoring my sanity! Back in 2012, I was frazzled. I was the person with the answers …. so people asked. I had little time or space in my working day to breathe and nip to the loo, let alone think! I was indispensable, and...
What is winning anyway?
This post is part of a series of blog posts where I consider each component of the Thinking Environment individually, in order to better understand the relationship between the Thinking Environment and psychological safety. In this post, I consider the component of...
Dig a little deeper
In this post, I consider some of the tools that we can use to dig deeper than the issues we see first, to solve underlying problems and have a greater impact. I then go on to consider the conditions that need to be present to enable those tools to be effective. If I...
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