Courageous Love
Giving & Receiving Blind Spot Feedback
A perfect example of blind spot feedback, and the difference it can make – where the feedback is given and received as a gift, rather than a criticism
Storytelling
People on an Airfield
Communication & Setting Success Criteria
Clear priorities are one thing - but what if they conflict? A great example of the need to connect top level strategy with ground level decision making.
Arm Folding
Habits & Embedding the Change
A brilliant yet simple way of emphasising how the key element in effective change is not about making the change, but embedding it...
Finding the Lever
Habits, Commitment, Motivation & Context
Understanding someone's key motivation & drivers can convert repetitive failure to instant success...so focus on what they want, not just what you want.
Just Being
Mindfulness & Investing in Self Care
Do you find it difficult to switch off? Do you even think it's possible...?
The Tea and the Stick
Thinking Outside the Box & Choice
Two choices - both equally problematic. Which would you choose? A really good example of thinking outside the box, and challenging assumptions...
To Catch a Monkey
Resourcefulness, Letting Go & Consequences
A metaphor for how failing to let go will keep you trapped - so don't let life make a monkey out of you...!
Arms Outstretched
Motivation & Meaning
Whether you do a task or not may depend less on its difficulty or content, and more on your motivation...
Ping Pong Ball
Problem Solving & Resourcefulness
Everything is obvious with hindsight - it's having great foresight that matters. Also a good example of how many problems are in our head, rather than in the external world...
The Grand National
Perfection & Getting Organised
Waiting, especially for perfection, may mean nothing gets started - and therefore completed - at all...
The Blanket
Values in Recruitment & Selection
The Values Agreement in action - and how values might be as important as skills in determining who might be a successful recruit...
The Barometer
Creativity & Culture
Why creativity and invention may not be supported under some cultures - another example to support Sir Ken Robinson's case for 'Do Schools Kill Creativity'
