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...
Leadership and Culture
What’s the Difference?
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...
To know or not to know……
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...
Are you appreciating enough?
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...
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone
A bit of a cliché? Perhaps. Also a line from one of my favourite songs by Joni Mitchell, that was way ahead of its time. True though, isn’t it? We take so much for granted. Our partners, parents, jobs, security, health, and (as Joni Mitchell sang about back in the...
Feeling the way to clearer thinking
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...
Choosing freedom
It starts with a choice. The choice to want to think for ourselves, as ourselves. I’m sure it’s not the first time Nancy Kline has talked about this, but my second read of her latest book, “The Promise that Changes Everything – I won’t interrupt you” was when it...
Can we save time by slowing down?
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...
What’s in a label?
In 2020, Nancy Kline made an important addition to the definition of Information in a Thinking Environment. Where information had previously been defined as “supplying facts and dismantling denial”, it now includes “recognising social context”. In this post, I...
What’s the Difference?
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...
To know or not to know……
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...
Are you appreciating enough?
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...
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone
A bit of a cliché? Perhaps. Also a line from one of my favourite songs by Joni Mitchell, that was way ahead of its time. True though, isn’t it? We take so much for granted. Our partners, parents, jobs, security, health, and (as Joni Mitchell sang about back in the...
Feeling the way to clearer thinking
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...
Choosing freedom
It starts with a choice. The choice to want to think for ourselves, as ourselves. I’m sure it’s not the first time Nancy Kline has talked about this, but my second read of her latest book, “The Promise that Changes Everything – I won’t interrupt you” was when it...
Can we save time by slowing down?
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...
What’s in a label?
In 2020, Nancy Kline made an important addition to the definition of Information in a Thinking Environment. Where information had previously been defined as “supplying facts and dismantling denial”, it now includes “recognising social context”. In this post, I...
Time and again the Thinking Environment demonstrates its power
Alongside my Thinking Environment work with clients, I spend a considerable part of my week working with financial planning business, Emery Little. One of the pleasures of being so involved in a single business is the opportunity to really embed the Thinking...
Infinite agility
I spend a considerable amount of time each week working with a Financial Planning business, Emery Little. Here I explore how we have begun to genuinely embrace change as opportunity, and offer some practical suggestions based on our experience. We’ve gone through a...
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